Young Adult Women and People of Color With Chest Pain Wait Longer at the Emergency Department
A study was conducted to evaluate sex and racial differences related to emergency department examinations among young adults with chest pain.
A study was conducted to evaluate sex and racial differences related to emergency department examinations among young adults with chest pain.
Researchers at TCT 2021 presented a new method for crossing wire-impenetrable proximal caps during chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention.
New clinical practice recommendations underscore the importance of identifying the source of chest pain, which may not always be related to a cardiovascular event.
The electrocardiogram criteria for acute coronary syndrome were found to have very low diagnostic accuracy in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain.
Fractional flow reserve derived from coronary computed tomography angiography and cardiac magnetic resonance stress perfusion imaging may provide comparable diagnostic accuracy for predicting coronary revascularization in patients with stable chest pain and obstructive coronary artery disease.
Investigators assessed the effect of erenumab on total exercise time, time to exercise-induced angina, and ST depression in patients with stable angina.
Investigators demonstrated that angina severity at baseline should be a less important aspect of the diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm.
A smaller proportion of patients undergoing stress echocardiography were hospitalized, with shorter lengths of stay than coronary computed tomography angiography.
Two analyses were conducted, one during the training phase and the second during the validation phase of the study.
Patients with stable chest pain who have high-risk plaque as identified by coronary computed tomographic angiography may have a higher risk for MACE.