Cardiologia Croatica, Vol. 8 No. 1-2, 2013.
Pregledni rad
Interventional cardiology in 2012: comparability of Croatia with international trends.
Boris Starčević
; Klinička bolnica Dubrava, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Irzal Hadžibegović
Mario Sičaja
; Klinička bolnica Dubrava, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Igor Rudež
; Klinička bolnica Dubrava, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Interventional cardiology became among the fastest growing areas in clinical medicine, thanks to technological and pharmacological discoveries over the last few years, which brought important advancements in treatment and overall prognosis of patients with cardiovascular diseases. Benefits of primary interventional treatments became particularly evident in management of acute coronary syndrome, especially in circumstances of organized network of primary percuteneous coronary interventions, which represented crucial step in development of modern era in cardiology, or even medicine. On the other hand, interventional management of chronic ischemic heart disease recently came to greater focus of attention as the issue of professional challenge, due to exceedingly grown number of investigations. New technologies and devices for treatment of coronary artery disease become available in 2012 in the world market, as well as in Croatia. However, their implementation for the most depends on availability of financial resources. Further efforts were made around research on novel antiplatelet and antiaggregation drugs, with an aim to develop the agent that would preferably exert greater efficiency, within more favorable safety profile. This was the year in which interventional treatment extended on the structural heart diseases as well particularly due toincrease in treatment of aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation, whilst cardioembolization, arterial hypertension and peripheral vascular disease become ever more attractive "battlefield" for interventional cardiologists. In this review article, we have presented all those modern trends in interventional cardiology in the past year at an international level and compared them to the situation in Croatia.
Ključne riječi
coronary heart disease; interventional cardiology; acute coronary syndrome
Hrčak ID:
97774
URI
Datum izdavanja:
11.2.2013.
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