Don Poldermans

TL;DR: Cardiac testing can safely be omitted in intermediate-risk patients, provided that beta-blockers aiming at tight HR control are prescribed, and revascularization before surgery was feasible.

TL;DR: Long-term statin use is associated with reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality irrespective of clinical risk factors and beta-blocker use.

TL;DR: In this article, a new definition of myocardial infarction has been introduced that has major implications from the epidemiological, societal, and patient points of view, and the greatest challenge will be to effectively implement preventive actions in all high-risk individuals and to expand delivery of acute treatment in a timely fashion for all eligible patients.

TL;DR: To the Editor: noncardiac surgery early after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting has been associated with adverse cardiac events in the perioperative period, but these reports were on patients with bare-metal stents, did not include drug-eluting stenting, and did.

TL;DR: Stunned myocardium is likely to demonstrate early recovery of function, whereas hibernatingMyocardium may take a longer time to (fully) recover in function after revascularization.