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Watch Chuck Simonton, MD, and Seth Bilazarian, MD, discuss data, late-breaking clinical trials and TCT 2023 news.
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The Contemporary High-Risk PCI Patient
The confluence of three factors—coronary complexity, patient comorbidities and hemodynamics—influence the decision to use Impella in high-risk PCI (HRPCI).1
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The A-SMART-EF Risk Score Can Help Predict 90-Day Mortality in Patients Undergoing Impella-Assisted PCI2
Predicting the risk of mortality before a HRPCI is important for patient selection and shared decision-making. Using the 1237 patients from PROTECT III Study, specific characteristics were identified as being helpful at predicting mortality risk at 90 days. Those included (1) Age > 75 years, (2) SYNTAX score ≥ 33, (3) MI at presentation, (4) Hgb < 12 mg/dL, (5) GFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 and (6) LVEF < 35%.
The resulting SMART-EF risk score was developed and helped to stratify patients into low or high-risk groups for predicting 90-day mortality.
Preview PROTECT III Abstracts Presented at TCT
Impact of Complete Revascularization With Impella
View an overview about the York data analysis - a pooled Individual Patient Data (IPD) analysis of pVAD and IABP in high-risk PCI, presented by Vasileios Panoulas, MD, at EuroPCR 2023 (part one) and ESC 2023 (part two).
References
- Truesdell, A. (2023). Defining High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Characteristics of Patients Undergoing Contemporary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Axial-Flow Mechanical Support [Conference presentation abstract]. Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference, San Francisco, California.
- Shah, et al., (2023). Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference, San Francisco, California.
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