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Guidelines released by the Society for Vascular Surgery now recommend endovascular repair over surgery for . (Journal of Vascular Surgery)

A report found that many patients going into the ICU for a cardiac procedure can , Cardiovascular Business reported. Hospitals varied widely in the lengths of ICU stay for patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgeries and cardiac catheterization.

Amaranth Medical's was associated with expansive vascular remodeling from 6 to 24 months, according to a 10-person optical coherence tomography study. Imaging showed no neoatherosclerosis over 2 years. (Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions)

The two most common life-threatening complications from transcatheter aortic valve replacement were left ventricular perforation by the guidewire and annular rupture, a European registry study in European Heart Journal showed. Even those emergency surgery patients among them who survived to hospital discharge had only 40.4% odds of survival to 1 year.

Centers that transfer patients with acute ischemic stroke to another hospital for mechanical thrombectomy can reduce door-to-puncture times by triaging them with using automated RAPID software before referral, a single-center study suggested. (Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery)

Patients who got the for treatment of their lesions in the superficial femoral and proximal popliteal arteries had better 12-month primary patency than did peers who received percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with an uncoated balloon (89% versus 48%, P<0.001), according to a randomized Japanese trial. These results are consistent with other trials on safety and effectiveness, the investigators concluded. (Journal of Endovascular Therapy)

A systematic review in Europace found that a single ablation procedure for works only 43% of the time. Multiple procedures and antiarrhythmic drugs bring that figure to 69%.

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