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Bleeding Better Controlled When Protamine Is Part of TAVR Wrap-Up Routine

With protamine routinely given at the end of transcatheter aortic valve replacement or implantation (TAVR or TAVI), patients achieved hemostasis quicker and with greater success, according to the ...
TCTMD

Even After Multivessel or LM PCI, Routine Stress Testing Adds Nothing

Even in patients with multivessel or left main coronary artery disease, routine functional testing after PCI adds no benefit, according to a new subanalysis of the POST-PCI trial supporting the ...
TCTMD

ACE-PROTAVI Data Solidify Protamine’s Role in Aortic Interventions

The routine use of protamine for heparin reversal during TAVI improves and hastens hemostasis, data from the randomized ACE-PROTAVI trial confirm. The results, published online this week in JAMA ...
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No Benefit of Routine Stress Test After PCI in High-Risk Patients

There is no incremental clinical benefit from routine surveillance stress testing (vs standard care alone) in high-risk patients with previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a subgroup ...