Rossana De Palma

TL;DR: The incidence of acute aortic dissection in the general population is not negligible and a notable rate of patients is ultra-octogenarian, but the results obtained in patients with complicated type B dissection who were treated with an endoprosthesis are dismal.

TL;DR: Patients with STEMI and concomitant COPD are at greater risk for death and hospital readmissions due to cardiovascular causes than patients without COPD.

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that the CRUSADE score predicts major bleeding similarly to ACUITY and better than HAS BLED in an all‐comer population with percutaneous coronary intervention and potentially identifies patients at higher risk of hemorrhagic complications when treated with a long‐term dual antiplatelet therapy regimen.

TL;DR: MCS seems better than conventional scores for predicting health outcomes, at least in the general population from Italy, and may offer an improved tool for risk adjustment, policy planning and identifying patients in need of a focused treatment approach in the everyday medical practice.

TL;DR: When p PCI is performed within an efficient STEMI network focused on reperfusion, the clinical effectiveness of either off-hours or regular-hours pPCI is comparable.