Cardio Buzz

5: Ten Questions on Coronary Angioplasty. ACC AHA Updated Guidelines. Part 3

Fixing coronary blockade without opening the chest is an attractive option to patients and their families… No surprise, Percutaneous coronary intervention PCI growing steadily since 1980s. 4 million PCIs are performed annually round the globe. A market size of 10 billion dollars!! What’s the best practice in PCI? Access, Assessment, gadgets, adjunctive medications. Let’s see what does the ACC/AHA guidelines recommend….

4: The surgical clash! ACC AHA guidelines on Coronary Revascularization. Part 2

A big question in revascularization, surgical or percutaneous? In the last decade, advanced technology has granted PCI more of the surgical territories. But what does the evidence say on choosing CABG versus PCI? Let’s see what the new ACC AHA guidelines have to tell us.Why the surgical community refused to endorse these guidelines?

3: ACC AHA Updated Guidelines on Coronary Revascularization. Part 1

Coronary revascularization; the bread and butter of modern cardiology practice and it got new guidelines! Jointly issued by the American Heart Association, American College of cardiology and the sky, and also reviewed by American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the guideline document was published simultaneously in JACC and in circulation less than a month ago. Noteworthy that these are first guidelines on the topic in 10 years. Several practice-changing trials were published in the same period.  This long-waited document comes to replace or retire five guidelines partially or totally, not only 2011 PCI and CABG guidelines, but also will replace sections in STEMI guidelines, ACS guidelines and stable IHD guidelines. So this is a document not to miss!

2: FDA approves new cholesterol injection. Good news or is it too early to celebrate?

Big news this week. The FDA approves a new therapy for cholesterol lowering “inclisiran”.  So what is this new therapy? Why did the FDA approve it and to whom? What does it mean for patients and where does the new therapy stand among other similar lipid lowering drugs currently available?

1: The best heart failure recipe

Heart failure is like cancer. The mortality is high and the burden on the economy is huge. We have almost  dozen  medications to treat heart failure and most of them work. So what  combination of drugs  give the best effect in heart failure? A new research suggests a "fantastic four" approach to be the best. Listen here to know the answer!