Air Quality and Stenting; Gadolinium-Free Cardiac MRI; Paclitaxel Balloon Kinetics
Interventional cardiology news to note
Areas with the heaviest air pollution also had the highest rates of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndrome in a Polish epidemiological study. But cleaner air was associated with greater sensitivity to fluctuations in particulate matter in the study, slated for presentation at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Paris.