Rotational atherectomy facilitates percutaneous coronary intervention for complex de novo
lesions with severe calcification. A strategy of routine rotational atherectomy has not …

The clinical pharmacology of antiplatelet drugs has been reviewed previously by the
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Task force and by the 8th American College of Chest …

Background It is unclear whether radial compared with femoral access improves outcomes
in unselected patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing invasive management …

1.1. Methodology and Evidence Review The recommendations listed in this document are,
whenever possible, evidence based. The current document constitutes a full revision and …

Objectives: This study sought to determine the effect of radial access on outcomes in women
undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using a registry-based randomized …

Our study objective was to assess the incidence, predictors, and implications of access site
complications related to transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). We …

Background—The Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) has recently proposed
a unified definition of bleeding in patients receiving antithrombotic therapy. We investigated …

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as a therapeutic alternative for
patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis at high or prohibitive surgical risk. However …

Patients who receive long-term oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy often require interruption of
OAC for an elective invasive procedure. Current guidelines allow bridging therapy with …

The SCAI Expert Consensus Statement: 2012 Best Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory provides standards for preprocedure, intraprocedure, and postprocedure …