Interventional Cardiology

Mortality occurred in 4.5% of patients in the sheath group versus 18.2% in the non-sheath group. Neurological outcomes also favoured preprocedural vascular sheath insertion.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation results in a higher risk of mortality and stroke compared with surgical replacement, a 2026 systematic review has found.

A 518 patient randomised trial shows iron bioresorbable scaffold is noninferior to a contemporary drug eluting stent at 2 years, with comparable clinical outcomes.

STORM-PE shows that mechanical thrombectomy leads to greater early improvement in right ventricular function than anticoagulation alone in intermediate-high risk pulmonary embolism, without increased major adverse events.

When benchmarked against widely used risk scores, including APPLE, SUCCESS, PAT2C2H, HATCH, BASE-AF2, and CHA₂DS₂-VASc, the nomogram consistently demonstrated superior predictive performance.

In a month-long study using pigs with brady-arrhythmia, the pacemaker demonstrated sustained energy regeneration and reliable therapeutic pacing without external power sources.

The researchers found that carotid plaque volume derived using the hemi-ellipsoid approach provided a more sensitive tool for evaluating plaque severity and monitoring progression over time compared with diameter or area stenosis alone.

In patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease, use of IMRCT reduced CMD underdiagnosis rates from approximately 35–39% to below 6%.