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May 11, 2021
Those flimsy, wallet-sized pieces of paper that detail the type, size, and location of the stent implanted? After roughly 4 years after device implantation, just under half of patients still carry their stent card, according to a new study.
And even among those diligent card-carrying members of the coronary stent club, patients had very little knowledge about the device propping open their arteries. In fact, only 17% of patients with a stent card were able to correctly identify the date of the procedure, the vessel stented, and the type of stent they received, say researchers.
For one cardiologist, the continued reliance on paper stent cards doesn’t make much sense. Computers, cellular phones, and app-based technology would go a long way toward eliminating the need for patients to carry around the card, especially since half aren’t doing so anyway.
April 23, 2021
The Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC) has updated their standardized definitions of clinical endpoints for transcatheter and surgical aortic valve clinical trials, including bioprosthetic valve dysfunction and failure, structural complications, conduction disturbances, and repeat hospitalizations, among others.
Published this week in the
European Heart Journal and the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the VARC-3 update was adopted given the “rapid evolution of the field,” including the emergence of new complications, expanding clinical indications, and novel therapy strategies, according to the writing committee.
As aortic valve research moves into younger patients, as well as those with less advanced aortic stenosis, future trials be they head-to-head comparisons of TAVI devices, TAVI versus surgery, or even TAVI or surgery versus medical therapy will need standardized definitions for capturing appropriate endpoints, the authors stre