The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)

November 2007

Volume 3 Number 3

Clinical research

Efficiency and safety of the sirolimus eluting stent in complex coronary artery lesions after cessation of dual antiplatelet therapy: fifteen months clinical outcome of the randomised Stenting Coronary Arteries in Non-stress/benestent Disease (SCANDSTENT) trial
Helqvist S, Kelbæk H, Thuesen L, Kløvgaard L, Krusell L, Jørgensen E, Bøtker H, Jensen G, Lassen J, Thayssen P, Galloe A, Saunamäki K
November 20, 2007
One year clinical follow-up of the XIENCE V Everolimus-eluting stent system in the treatment of patients with <i>de novo</i> native coronary artery lesions: the SPIRIT II study
Ruygrok P, Desaga M, Van den Branden B, Rasmussen K, Suryapranata H, Dorange C, Veldhof S, Serruys P
November 20, 2007
Percutaneous injection of thrombin for the treatment of pseudoaneurysms: the German multicentre registry
Hofmann I, Wunderlich N, Robertson G, Kieback A, Haller C, Pfeil W, Störk T, Hoffmann G, Bischoff K-O, Dorsel T, Görge G, Sievert H
November 20, 2007
A multicentre comparison of transradial and transfemoral approaches for coronary angiography and PTCA in obese patients: the TROP registry
Benamer H, Louvard Y, Sanmartin M, Valsecchi O, Hildick-Smith D, Garot P, Narbute I, Hamon M, Ungi I, Monsegu J
November 20, 2007
Appraising the effectiveness and safety of paclitaxel-eluting stents in over 1,000 very high-risk patients: overall results of the Taxus in Real-life Usage Evaluation (TRUE) Registry
Sangiorgi G, Biondi-Zoccai G, Agostoni P, Antoniucci D, Grube E, Di Mario C, Reimers B, Tamburino C, Cosgrave J, Colombo A
November 20, 2007
Economic impact of endarterectomy vs carotid artery stenting: a one year, single centre study
Setacci F, de Donato G, Chisci E, Sirignano P, Galzerano G, Castriota F, Cremonesi A, Setacci C
November 20, 2007
Activation of coagulation during routine diagnostic coronary angiography
Tandar A, Lehman C, Rodgers G, Meredith K, Muhlestein J, Barry W, Michaels A, Lee H
November 20, 2007
Accelerated vascular repair following percutaneous coronary intervention by capture of endothelial progenitor cells promotes regression of neointimal growth at long term follow-up: final results of the Healing II trial using an endothelial progenitor cell capturing stent (Genous R stent)™
Duckers H, Soullié T, den Heijer P, Rensing B, de Winter R, Rau M, Mudra H, Silber S, Benit E, Verheye S, Wijns W, Serruys P
November 20, 2007
Short- and long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction
Rosano G, Sciuto F, Marra WG, Meliga E, Fumagalli A, Ballari G, Beninati S, Omedè P, Trevi GP
November 20, 2007
Safety and feasibility of a new non-occlusive technique for facilitated intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) acquisition in various clinical and anatomical scenarios
Prati F, Cera M, Ramazzotti V, Imola F, Giudice R, Albertucci M
November 20, 2007
Ongoing tirofiban in myocardial infarction evaluation (On-TIME) 2 trial: rationale and study design
van’t Hof A, Hamm C, Rasoul S, Gupthan S, Paolini J, ten Berg J
November 20, 2007

Expert review

Making sense of the recent meta-analytical confusion concerning the safety of drug-eluting stents
Biondi-Zoccai G, Agostoni P, Moretti C, Meliga E, Sheiban I
November 20, 2007
Effectiveness and safety of paclitaxel-eluting stents in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction
Moreno R, Spaulding C, Laarman GJ, Tierala I, Kaiser C, López-Sendón J-L
November 20, 2007
A pooled safety analysis of data comparing paclitaxel-eluting stents with bare-metal stents
Daemen J, Spaulding C, Jacob S, Boersma E, Varenne O, Serruys P
November 20, 2007
Prognostic impact of major bleeding in patients with acute coronary syndromes. A systematic review and meta-analysis
Hamon M, Filippi-Codaccioni E, Riddell J, Lepage O
November 20, 2007
Percutaneous coronary stenting in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Biondi-Zoccai G, Moretti C, Abbate A, Lipinski M, De Luca G, Agostoni P, Meliga E, Goudreau E, Vetrovec G, Trevi GP, Sheiban I
November 20, 2007
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