Mucormycosis is a difficult to diagnose rare disease with high morbidity and mortality.
Diagnosis is often delayed, and disease tends to progress rapidly. Urgent surgical and medical …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes direct damage to the airway
epithelium, enabling aspergillus invasion. Reports of COVID-19-associated pulmonary …

Objectives : This study was designed to establish the incidence, impact, and predictors of
post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) aortic regurgitation (AR). Background : AR …

Optimal revascularization strategy in patients with coronary artery disease remains a
subject of debate between interventional cardiologists and surgeons. Numerous large scale …

Background Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) involving drug-eluting stents is
increasingly used to treat complex coronary artery disease, although coronary-artery bypass …

ContextTraditionally, stent thrombosis has been regarded as a complication of percutaneous
coronary interventions during the first 30 postprocedural days. However, delayed …

Background Current guidelines for patients with moderate- or high-risk acute coronary
syndromes recommend an early invasive approach with concomitant antithrombotic therapy, …

Background We report the 5-year results of the SYNTAX trial, which compared coronary
artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the …

Background The safety of drug-eluting stents has been called into question by recent reports
of increased stent thrombosis, myocardial infarction, and death. Such studies have been …

Background The placement of stents in coronary arteries has been shown to reduce restenosis
in comparison to balloon angioplasty. However, clinical use of intracoronary stents is …