coronary stents Tag

05 Apr

Posted at 11:36h in Author Interviews, Hospital Readmissions, JACC, JAMA

MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_40933" align="alignleft" width="200"] Example of Open Cardiac Stent[/caption] Chun Shing Kwok, MBBS, MSc, BSc, MRCP(UK) Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology and Specialist Registrar in Cardiology Keele University & Royal Stoke University Hospital Guy Hilton Research  MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a common revascularization...

09 Oct

Posted at 13:54h in Author Interviews, Heart Disease, JAMA, Surgical Research
Dr. Mary T Hawn MD Center for Surgical, Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions (C-SMART), Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery University of Alabama at BirminghamMedicalResearch.com Interview with Dr. Mary T Hawn MD Center for Surgical, Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions (C-SMART), Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery University of Alabama at Birmingham MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings of the study? Dr. Hawn: The risk of adverse perioperative cardiac events is elevated in patients with recent coronary stenting, but the risk does not differ by stent type and stabilizes for surgery more than 6 months following stenting.