The benefit of endovascular therapy in the treatment of stroke caused by an occlusion of the basilar artery has finally been confirmed in the ATTENTION randomized controlled trial.
A new position statement from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions suggests best practices for this increasingly widespread alternative access route.
The very low number of women and individuals from ethnic minorities in the cardiac electrophysiology speciality in the United States has been highlighted in two new studies.
Transradial access stood shoulder to shoulder with transfemoral access for intervention in chronic total coronary occlusions, with fewer complications, in the randomized FORT CTO trial.
Initially considered impossible, the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure has now been performed for 20 years and has saved many lives.