Audio Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine: reporting from American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, November 12-15, 2006

Audio Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine: reporting from American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, November 12-15, 2006

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13 November 2006

Oscar Marroquin Sanjay Kaul Joseph Sweeny Maximo Rivero-Ayerza Repeat Revascularization With Drug Eluting versus Bare Metal Stents REFERENCE: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, N

Oscar Marroquin

Oscar Marroquin

Sanjay Kaul

Sanjay Kaul

Joseph Sweeny

Joseph Sweeny

Maximo Rivero-Ayerza

Maximo Rivero-Ayerza

Repeat Revascularization With Drug Eluting versus Bare Metal Stents

REFERENCE: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, November 12-15, 2006. Abstract 1948 (C 206) Page: 236, Sunday 12thOSCAR C MARROQUIN, University of PittsburghAlthough drug eluting stents reduce the need for repeat revascularization, the timing of stent failure is less predictable than with bare metal stents. This is the finding of a study using data from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry.Oscar Marroquintold the Chicago conference about the comparison his group has made between different waves of patients having angioplasty before and after the adoption of drug eluting stents.

Are Drug Eluting Stents Really Worth the Money?

REFERENCE: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, November 12-15, 2006. Abstract: 1949 (C207) Sunday page: 236SANJAY KAUL, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los AngelesA strategy of unconditional substitution of bare metal with drug eluting stents is not cost-worthy, according to a study fromSanjay Kaulwho recommended to delegates at the AHA conference that more selective use of drug eluting stents should be applied in the cath lab.

Cardiac Alllograft Patients: Drug Eluting Stents Better, But Not as Good as Hoped

REFERENCE: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, November 12-15, 2006. Abstract 1957 C215 Sunday page 236JOSEPH SWEENY, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New YorkThe superiority of drug-eluting over bare metal stents has been confirmed among heart transplant patients, but the benefit does not seem to be as great as has been hoped.Joseph Sweenytold AHA delegates what his group found from their study and what the implications might be.

Atrial Fibrilation An Independent Predictor of Mortality. Euro Heart Failure Survey Results: A Retrospective Analysis

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2006 November 12-15th Chicago, Illinois. Abstract: 2013 Page 242 Sunday Oral SessionMAXIMO RIVERO-AYERZA, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsDon’t under-estimate new onset atrial fibrillation in your patients admitted with heart failure: so saidMaximo Rivero-Ayerza, who’s found a significant contribution of AF to subsequent mortality.