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Key Topics

ACUTE MI

Acute MI is in the top 3 in the number of hits by topic on this website, meaning it remains a concern for routine practice. There are still debates around facilitation, aspiration and stenting using DES. Moreover, cell therapy role needs clarification.




Webcasts
• Networking & Facilitating for better management?
How to organise optimal networking for invasive treatment of patients with STEMI? The logistic - Speaker: P. Widimsky
- webcast
- slides


Lectures

• Primary PCI: its impact on the global European PCI practice

Patients with left main stenosis: can we push the envelope? Interactive debate based on case presentation
F. Weidinger
Patients with left main stenosis: can we push the envelope? Interactive debate based on case presentation
A. Marzocchi


• Facilitation before PCI: still a role?

Networking and facilitating
P. Kala
Post-lytic percutaneous coronary intervention: is <24 hours a must?
M. Rothman


• How to manage the thrombus?

Aspirating and protecting
F. Kiemeneij
How to use an aspiration device (EXPORT)?
B. Chevalier


• Specific situation: AMI in women

Acute myocardial infarction: do women benefit from primary angioplasty?
D. Antoniucci


• Specific situation: Multivessel disease management in AMI

Evaluation of myocardial perfusion after revascularisation for acute myocardial infarction
J. Garot


• Specific situation: AMI due to LM occlusion

How to treat STEMI patients and left main disease?
A. Witkowski


• Specific situation: How to deal with a patient resuscitated from cardiac arrest?

Post-ressucitation cooling
M. Noc


• Specific situation: Is there a role for a different stent in AMI?

TITAX AMI
P. Karjalainen


• The post PCI management: don't forget the lifestyle modification!

After the stenting is over: patient lifestyle modification
I. Drotningsvik


• Cell therapy: more trials…

ASTAMI
S. Aakhus
BOOST
H. Drexler
Dutch HEBE trial
J. Piek
REPAIR-AMI
V. Schaechinger
Spanish AMI study
P.L. Sanchez



EuroIntervention related contents
• Effectiveness and safety of paclitaxel-eluting stents in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction

• The impact of age and Killip class on outcomes of primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Insight from the PRAGUE-1 and -2 trials and registry

• Human myocardium preconditioning during successive balloon inflations: irrelevant influence of both collateral recruitment and clinical pre-intervention interference

• Intracoronary nicorandil prior to reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction