Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
May 16, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Pre-hospital delay (p-HD) in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) influences the ability to perform percutaneous coronary intervention in a timely manner. Many factors, including age, have been identified to affect p-HD. An association between...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Nov 19, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Managing patients with multiple risk factors for CVDs can present distinct challenges for healthcare providers, therefore addressing them can be paramount to optimize patient care.
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Jul 16, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is one of the most commonly ordered cardiac imaging tests. Accurate motion correction, image registration, and reconstruction are critical for high-quality imaging, but this can be technically challeng...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Jun 23, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Digital health is a broad term that includes telecommunication technologies to collect, share and manipulate health information to improve patient health and health care services. With the growing use of wearables, artificial intelligen...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Jun 21, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Guidelines advise ongoing follow-up of patients after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) to assess cardiovascular risk and manage future patient-specific pregnancy conditions. However, there are limited tools available to monitor...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Feb 23, 2020
: With the increase in the number of patients with cardiovascular diseases, better risk-prediction models for cardiovascular events are needed. Statistical-based risk-prediction models for cardiovascular events (CVEs) are available, but they lack the...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Sep 15, 2017
The fundamental technique of performing percutaneous cardiovascular (CV) interventions has remained unchanged and requires operators to wear heavy lead aprons to minimize exposure to ionizing radiation. Robotic technology is now being utilized in int...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Aug 23, 2017
Robots have been employed in cardiovascular therapy as surgical tools and for automation of hospital systems. Soft robots are a new kind of robot made of soft deformable materials, that are uniquely suited for biomedical applications because they are...
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy
Sep 17, 2015
Robotic percutaneous interventional systems represent the future of interventional cardiology. Robotic technology significantly reduces operator exposure to ionizing radiation, and improves ergonomics in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, thereb...