Advances in the treatment of coronary artery disease remained steady in 2025, as in recent years, but the past 12 months also ...

The rhythm is regular at a rate of 42 beats/min. The first five QRS complexes are wide (0.14 seconds), with no P waves seen before or after. However, a P wave appears immediately before the fifth QRS ...

For patients with complex chronic total occlusion (CTO) lesions undergoing bailout PCI, a two-stage intervention alongside a strategy of subintimal tracking and reentry (STAR) leads to good technical ...

Balloon angioplasty is used to widen blocked or narrow blood vessels. It is often done with local anesthesia and does not usually require an overnight hospital stay. The procedure has risks, including ...

Background Drug-coated balloons (DCB) can decrease the incidence of restenosis in the treatment of intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS). This study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of ...

Objectives: Ki-67 is expressed in the nuclei of dividing cells and can be used to assess proliferation of synovial inflammatory and stromal cells. We evaluated subintimal Ki-67+ cell density as a ...

Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of primary angioplasty compared with thrombolysis for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction. Design Cost analysis of UK observational database, ...

Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK Dr M Sculpher, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD York, ...

Second Affiliated Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Objective: To quantify inflammatory changes in synovial membranes from orthopaedic “non-inflammatory” ...