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Nidal Abi Rafeh
Researcher at St George's Hospital
Publications - 88
Citations - 1095
Nidal Abi Rafeh is an academic researcher from St George's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Percutaneous coronary intervention. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 50 publications receiving 687 citations. Previous affiliations of Nidal Abi Rafeh include Saint George Hospital & Tulane University.
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Guiding Principles for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Global Expert Consensus Document
Emmanouil S. Brilakis,Kambis Mashayekhi,Etsuo Tsuchikane,Nidal Abi Rafeh,Khaldoon Alaswad,Mario Araya,Alexandre Avran,Lorenzo Azzalini,Avtandil M. Babunashvili,Baktash Bayani,Ravinay Bhindi,Nicolas Boudou,Marouane Boukhris,Nenad Božinović,Leszek Bryniarski,Alexander Bufe,Christopher E. Buller,M. Nicholas Burke,Heinz Joachim Büttner,Pedro Cardoso,Mauro Carlino,Evald Høj Christiansen,Antonio Colombo,Kevin Croce,Félix Damas de los Santos,Tony De Martini,Joseph Dens,Carlo Di Mario,Kefei Dou,Mohaned Egred,Ahmed ElGuindy,Javier Escaned,Sergey Furkalo,Andrea Gagnor,Alfredo R. Galassi,Roberto Garbo,Junbo Ge,Pravin K. Goel,Omer Goktekin,Luca Grancini,J. Aaron Grantham,Colm G. Hanratty,Stefan Harb,Scott A. Harding,José P.S. Henriques,Jonathan Hill,Farouc A. Jaffer,Yangsoo Jang,Risto Jussila,Artis Kalnins,Arun Kalyanasundaram,David E. Kandzari,Hsien Li Kao,Dimitri Karmpaliotis,Hussien Heshmat Kassem,Paul Knaapen,Ran Kornowski,Oleg Krestyaninov,A. V.Ganesh Kumar,Peep Laanmets,Pablo Lamelas,Seung-Whan Lee,Thierry Lefèvre,Yue Li,Soo Teik Lim,Sidney Lo,William Lombardi,Margaret McEntegart,Muhammad Munawar,José A. Navarro Lecaro,Hung M. Ngo,William J. Nicholson,Göran K. Olivecrona,Lucio Padilla,Marin Postu,Alexandre Schaan de Quadros,Franklin Hanna Quesada,Vithala Surya Prakasa Rao,Nicolaus Reifart,Meruzhan Saghatelyan,Ricardo Santiago,George Sianos,Elliot J. Smith,James C. Spratt,Gregg W. Stone,Julian Strange,Khalid Tammam,Imre Ungi,Minh Vo,Vu Hoang Vu,Simon J Walsh,Gerald S. Werner,Jason R Wollmuth,Eugene B. Wu,R. Michael Wyman,Bo Xu,Masahisa Yamane,Luiz F. Ybarra,Robert W. Yeh,Qi Zhang,Stéphane Rinfret +100 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified seven common principles that are widely accepted as best practices for chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in CTO-PCI.
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Objective measures of the frailty syndrome (hand grip strength and gait speed) and cardiovascular mortality: A systematic review.
Vinod Chainani,Sameer Shaharyar,Kairavee Dave,Vivek Choksi,Sharmila Ravindranathan,Ram Hanno,Omar Jamal,Abir Abdo,Nidal Abi Rafeh +8 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that decreased HGS and GS are associated with CVD mortality, with the association found to be more consistent for GS as compared to HGS.
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Global Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing Algorithm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review
Eugene B. Wu,Emmanouil S. Brilakis,Kambis Mashayekhi,Etsuo Tsuchikane,Khaldoon Alaswad,Mario Araya,Alexandre Avran,Lorenzo Azzalini,Avtandil M. Babunashvili,Baktash Bayani,Michael Behnes,Ravinay Bhindi,Nicolas Boudou,Marouane Boukhris,Nenad Z. Bozinovic,Leszek Bryniarski,Alexander Bufe,Christopher E. Buller,M. Nicholas Burke,Achim Buttner,Pedro Cardoso,Mauro Carlino,Ji Yan Chen,Evald Hoej Christiansen,Antonio Colombo,Kevin Croce,Félix Damas de los Santos,Tony De Martini,Joseph Dens,Carlo Di Mario,Kefei Dou,Mohaned Egred,Basem Elbarouni,Ahmed ElGuindy,Javier Escaned,Sergey Furkalo,Andrea Gagnor,Alfredo R. Galassi,Roberto Garbo,Gabriele Gasparini,Junbo Ge,Lei Ge,Pravin K. Goel,Omer Goktekin,Nieves Gonzalo,Luca Grancini,Allison B. Hall,Franklin Hanna Quesada,Colm G. Hanratty,Stefan Harb,Scott A. Harding,Raja Hatem,José P.S. Henriques,David Hildick-Smith,Jonathan Hill,Angela Hoye,Wissam Jaber,Farouc A. Jaffer,Yangsoo Jang,Risto Jussila,Artis Kalnins,Arun Kalyanasundaram,David E. Kandzari,Hsien-Li Kao,Dimitri Karmpaliotis,Hussien Heshmat Kassem,Jaikirshan Khatri,Paul Knaapen,Ran Kornowski,Oleg Krestyaninov,A. V.Ganesh Kumar,Pablo Lamelas,Seung-Whan Lee,Thierry Lefèvre,R. Leung,Yu Li,Yue Li,Soo Teik Lim,Sidney Lo,William Lombardi,Anbukarasi Maran,Margaret McEntegart,Jeffrey W. Moses,Muhammad Munawar,Andres Navarro,Hung M. Ngo,William J. Nicholson,Anja Øksnes,Göran K. Olivecrona,Lucio Padilla,Mitul Patel,Ashish Pershad,Marin Postu,Jie Qian,Alexandre Schaan de Quadros,Nidal Abi Rafeh,Truls Råmunddal,Vithala Surya Prakasa Rao,Nicolaus Reifart,Robert F. Riley,Stéphane Rinfret,Meruzhan Saghatelyan,George Sianos,Elliot J. Smith,Anthony Spaedy,James C. Spratt,Gregg W. Stone,Julian Strange,Khalid Tammam,Craig Thompson,Aurel Toma,Jennifer A. Tremmel,Ricardo Santiago Trinidad,Imre Ungi,Minh Vo,Vu Hoang Vu,Simon J Walsh,Gerald S. Werner,Jarosław Wójcik,Jason R Wollmuth,Bo Xu,Masahisa Yamane,Luiz F. Ybarra,Robert W. Yeh,Qi Zhang +124 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a global chronic total occlusion crossing algorithm was developed, which is followed by a careful angiographic review focusing on proximal cap morphology, occlusions segment, distal vessel quality, and collateral circulation.
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Breast arterial calcifications on mammograms do not predict coronary heart disease at coronary angiography.
Mohammad Zgheib,Shalom S. Buchbinder,Nidal Abi Rafeh,Marwan Elya,Carolyn Raia,Kathleen Ahern,Marianne Smith,Thomas Costantino,Michael J. Flory,James Lafferty,Mario R. Castellanos +10 more
TL;DR: The authors did not observe a correlation between BAC and coronary angiography-detected CHD, even when CHD severity was considered, and caution should be exercised when using screening mammography- Detection BAC to identify patients with CHD.
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Do omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids reduce risk of sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmias? A meta-analysis of randomized trials
Georges Khoueiry,Nidal Abi Rafeh,Erinmarie Sullivan,Faisal B Saiful,Zehra Jaffery,David N. Kenigsberg,Subramaniam C. Krishnan,Sanjaya Khanal,Soad Bekheit,Marcin Kowalski +9 more
TL;DR: Dairy supplementation with omega-3 PUFA does not affect the risk of SCD or ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death and a meta-analysis using a random effects model was performed.