Sloppy reporting to judge all PCI procedures "useless". ORBITA is VERY nuanced & should be reported so. @ginakolata @SCAI @SVRaoMD @bnallamo
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The patient here must have a very large LAD to deserve such huge stent - alternatively
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Just not correct. Sorry
@ginakolata but as PI@rallamee said, "its's an incredibly large overreach to use this to downgrade angioplasty"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The photo accompanying this tweet shows a TAVR valve not a coronary stent. Sloppy.
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They've excluded acute coronary artery patients so , title is so misleading and the article is uselesspic.twitter.com/tFxgn8zmvT
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Implanting that TAVR valve in my coronaries wouldn't relieve my chest pain either
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Stents open blocked coronary arteries. Ppl who have them already have unhealthy hearts and will continue to have symptoms. What’s the story?
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200 patients single vessel for six weeks and that’s your conclusion. Wow. I guess we better close up shop and forget the thousands of patients that feel and do better after appropriate stenting
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I’m pretty sure I’d be dead right now without my stents
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Do they keep people alive?
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Thats a might large stent made for an elephant.Ha ha. Agree, at least get the pic details right. Good thing NYT doesn’t practice medicine!!
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Compare stenting,ballooning,non treatment arm”sham” to see if indeed placebo effect plays a role. Does indwelling stent cause residual CP?
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The Study investigators don’t agree. It is not useless it is = to medical treatment for 6 weeks in pts who tolerated medical treatment
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Risk of cath is low, but it's not zero. Seems to me a sham procedure would be unethical with risk of perf, dissection, dislodging plaque.
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Funny how rare funny how rarely we treat patients with 1A evidence
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