<\/strong>Industry Employees May Not Be Allowed to Speak at the AHA:<\/strong> Industry employees may no longer be allowed to speak at the AHA scientific sessions and other CME-accredited events, according to an article by John Fauber in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>.<\/a> The ruling by the the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is being appealed by the AHA. The ruling was harshly condemned by NIH Director Francis Collins and other biomedical leaders. A key feature of the trial is that it enrolled many patients excluded from previous stent trials, such as those with coexisting illnesses, acute MI, and multivessel disease. In their report in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/em><\/a><\/em>, the investigators conclude that “the new-generation zotarolimus-eluting stent was found to be as safe and effective as the everolimus-eluting stent in a group of patients for whom the procedure was considered to be predominantly off-label.” Industry Employees May Not Be Allowed to Speak at the AHA: Industry employees may no longer be allowed to speak at the AHA scientific sessions and other CME-accredited events, according to an article by John Fauber in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The ruling by the the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is being appealed by the AHA. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nNew-Generation Stent Tested:<\/strong> In the Resolute All Comers Trial, Patrick Serruys and colleagues randomized 2,292 PCI patients to either the Resolute zotarolimus-eluting stent or the Xience V everolimus-eluting stent. At 12 months, the rate of target lesion failure was 8.2% in the Resolute arm and 8.3% in the Xience V arm, thereby demonstrating noninferiority of the new Resolute stent (P<0.001 for noninferiority). There were no significant differences in death from cardiac causes, MI, or revascularization between the two groups. Stent thrombosis occurred in 2.3% of the Resolute group compared to 1.5% of the Xience V group (P=0.17).<\/p>\n
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\nBMS Versus DES for STEMI:<\/strong> Kaltoft and colleagues randomized 626 STEMI patients to a drug-eluting or a bare-metal stent. At 3 years, the rate of major adverse cardiac events was 11.5% in the DES group versus 18.2% in the BMS group (P=0.02). Although there was no difference in all-cause mortality, there was a significant difference in cardiac death (6.1% for DES vs. 1.9% for BMS, P=0.01). In their report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em><\/a><\/em>, the investigators observe that “the very low cardiac mortality rate in our BMS group is hard to interpret, and the excess cardiac DES mortality should be interpreted accordingly and might have occurred by chance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"