Mon September 2 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes: The Task Force for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

News Release: Pollution and noise reduction advised in ESC guidelines on chronic coronary syndromes (free)

2 – 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism developed in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society (ERS): The Task Force for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) (free)

3 – The Task Force for the management of patients with supraventricular tachycardia of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Developed in collaboration with the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) (free)

4 – 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk: The Task Force for the management of dyslipidaemias of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) (free)

5 – 2019 ESC Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD: The Task Force for diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) (free)

6 – Maximum-fixed energy shocks for cardioverting atrial fibrillation – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentary: Comparison of High vs. Escalating Shocks – CHESS – American College of Cardiology (free)

7 – Complete Revascularization with Multivessel PCI for Myocardial Infarction – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Complete Versus Culprit-Only Revascularization Strategies to Treat Multivessel Disease After Early PCI for STEMI – COMPLETE – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Complete revascularisation is superior to culprit-lesion only intervention – European Society of Cardiology (free)

Related Cochrane Review: Complete versus culprit-only revascularisation in ST elevation myocardial infarction with multi-vessel disease – Cochrane Library (free)

Related Meta-analysis: Complete Revascularization During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Reduces Death and Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Multivessel Disease: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Randomized Trials – JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (free)

8 – Dapagliflozin in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction – DAPA-HF – American College of Cardiology (free) Dapagliflozin reduces death and hospitalisation in patients with heart failure – European Society of Cardiology (free)

9 – HiSTORIC Trial Supports Single-Test Rule-Out of MI Using High-Sensitivity Troponin – TCTMD (free) AND Risk-Based Thresholds for hs-Troponin I Safely Speed MI Rule-Out – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND HISTORIC: Early Rule-Out Strategy Using High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Reduced Length of Stay, Hospital Readmissions in Suspected ACS Patients – American College of Cardiology (free)

Related Studies: Randomized Trial: High-Sensitivity Troponin in the Evaluation of Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (free study and commentaries) AND Cohort Study: The Introduction of High-sensitive Troponins Had No Impact on Survival (free study and commentaries)

10 – High-Sensitivity Troponin and The Application of Risk Stratification Thresholds in Patients with Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome – Circulation (free PDF)