Volume 9 Number 2

Editorial

Cost-effectiveness: the ménage à trois having a ratio with one denominator and one numerator

Serruys PW

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Numbers needed to treat (lives!) and numbers needed to save (money)

Ribichini F, Taggart D, Vassanelli C

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Less invasive partial circulatory support: concept versus clinical utility

Westaby S

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The surgeon’s corner

The current role of coronary artery bypass in diabetics with multivessel coronary disease

Grover F, Mack MJ

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EAPCI column

A time to say “Thank you”

Fajadet J

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Community news

EAPCI Focus on EAPCI training and research grants 2013

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Focus article

The ETHICA Award 2013

Wijns W, Fajadet J

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EuroPCR 2013 highlights

De Palma R

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Clinical research

Six-month and one-year clinical outcomes after placement of a dedicated coronary bifurcation stent: a patient-level pooled analysis of eight registry studies

Grundeken M.J, Asgedom S, Damman P, Lesiak M, Norell M, Garcia E, Bethencourt A, Woudstra P, Koch K, Vis MM, Henriques J, Onuma Y, Foley DP, Bartorelli AL, Stella P, Thijssen J, de Winter R, Wykrzykowska JJ

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Outcomes of a preoperative “bridging” strategy with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors to prevent perioperative stent thrombosis in patients with drug-eluting stents who undergo surgery necessitating interruption of thienopyridine administration

Alshawabkeh L, Prasad A, Lenkovsky F, Makary L, Kandil E, Weideman R, Kelly K, Rangan B, Banerjee S, Brilakis E

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Late catch-up in lumen diameter at five-year angiography in MACE-free patients treated with sirolimus-eluting stents in the Primary Stenting of Totally Occluded Native Coronary Arteries: a randomised comparison of bare metal stent implantation with sirolimus-eluting stent implantation for the treatment of total coronary occlusions (PRISON II)

Teeuwen K, Van den Branden B, Rahel B, Laarman G, Thijssen J, Kelder J, Slagboom T, ten Berg JM, Suttorp MJ

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Predictors of suboptimal TIMI flow after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: results from the HORIZONS-AMI trial

Caixeta A, Lansky AJ, Mehran R, Brener S, Claessen B, Généreux P, Palmerini T, Witzenbichler B, Guagliumi G, Brodie B, Dudek D, Fahy M, Dangas G, Stone GW

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Percutaneous coronary intervention increases microvascular resistance in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome

Akdeniz C, Umman S, Nisanci Y, Umman B, Bugra Z, Aslanger E, Kaplan A, Yılmaz A, Teker E, Güz G, Polat N, Sezer M

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Ruptured plaque and large plaque burden are risks of distal embolisation during percutaneous coronary intervention: evaluation by angioscopy and virtual histology intravascular ultrasound imaging

Matsuo K, Ueda Y, Tsujimoto M, Hao H, Nishio M, Hirata A, Asai M, Nemoto T, Murakami A, Kashiwase K, Kodama K

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Beyond the balloon: excimer coronary laser atherectomy used alone or in combination with rotational atherectomy in the treatment of chronic total occlusions, non-crossable and non-expansible coronary lesions

Fernandez J, Hobson A, McKenzie D, Shah N, Sinha M, Wells T, Levy T, Swallow R, Talwar S, O'Kane P