Rami El Mahmoud

TL;DR: Platelet function monitoring with treatment adjustment did not improve the clinical outcome of elderly patients treated with coronary stenting for an acute coronary syndrome and international guidelines still recommend platelet function testing in high-risk situations.

TL;DR: Among elderly patients who have PCI, a DES and a short duration of DAPT are better than BMS and a similar duration ofDAPT with respect to the occurrence of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, stroke, and ischaemia-driven target lesion revascularisation.

TL;DR: 2-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is a reliable tool for assessing circular dysfunction in patients with Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy and can also be used in the follow-up of LV functional recovery.

TL;DR: Ticagrelor was not superior to clopidogrel in reducing periprocedural myocardial necrosis after elective PCI and did not cause an increase in major bleeding, but did increase the rate of minor bleeding at 30 days, which supports the use of clopinogrel as the standard of care for elective PCI.

TL;DR: Within a large urban agglomeration, the incidence of Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy is high in women ≥ 60 years and will probably rise with the increase of life expectancy.