Background We hypothesised that ticagrelor, in combination with aspirin for 1 month,
followed by ticagrelor alone, improves outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention …

Background: Myocardial transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) has been associated
with reentrant arrhythmias in animal studies but a clinical association has not yet to been …

Aims Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) has emerged as a non-invasive
diagnostic method for patients with suspected coronary artery disease, but its usefulness in …

The cause and effect relationship between serum uric acid levels and hypertension can be
difficult to evaluate because antihypertensive drugs sometimes affect uric acid levels. This …

Aims Pressure-wire assessment of coronary stenosis is considered the invasive reference
standard for detection of ischaemia-generating lesions. Recently, methods to estimate the …

Background : The functional SYNTAX score (FSS) has been shown to improve the discrimination
for major adverse cardiac events compared with the anatomic SYNTAX score (SS) …

Quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) remains to play an important role in clinical trials
and post-marketing surveillance related to the safety and efficacy of new PCI devices. In this …

Background MiStent is a drug-eluting stent with a fully absorbable polymer coating containing
and embedding a microcrystalline form of sirolimus into the vessel wall. It was developed …

Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of post–percutaneous coronary
intervention (PCI) quantitative flow ratio (QFR) on clinical outcomes in patients with de …

Objectives The aims of the present study were to investigate the applicability of quantitative
flow ratio (QFR) in patients with 3-vessel disease and to demonstrate the impact of functional …