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Late Breaking Clinical Trials in Interventional Cardiology: Coronary and Peripheral Revascularization was one of the most important sessions at this year's conference. Check out the enhanced, on demand version of the original presentation from this year's ACC '04 in New Orleans, LA. This CME activity consists of important late-breaking clinical trials, including SES-SMART, DIRECT, PRAGUE-4, and ARCHeR.
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Learning Objectives:
At the end of this program, it is intended for the participant to:
  • Review key data from recent Interventional clinical trials including SES-SMART, DIRECT, PRAGUE-4 and ARCHeR

  • Compare and contrast the efficacy and safety profiles of various stents, including drug-eluting stents

  • Discuss Interventional management strategies for Revascularization including stenting and coronary by pass grafting
Target Audience:
This program is intended for cardiologists, cardiology fellows and residents, and anyone who treats patients with cardiovascular disease.

John McB Hodgson, Co-Chair
Alan C. Yeung, Co-Chair

Diego Ardissino, for the SES-SMART Investigators
  SES-SMART: A Randomized Comparison of a Sirolimus-Eluting Stent and a Standard Stent in the Prevention of Restenosis in Small Coronary Arteries: The SES-SMART Trial
Jeffrey W. Moses, Martin B. Leon, Jeffrey J. Popma, Sidney A. Cohen, Richard E. Kuntz (for the DIRECT Investigators)
  DIRECT: Direct Stenting Using the Sirolimus-Eluting Bx VELOCITY™ Stent: Procedural, Clinical, and Angiographic Outcomes Compared to a Predilatation Strategy
Petr Widimsky, Petr Stros, Zbynek Straka, Karel Jirasek
  PRAGUE-4: One-Year Coronary Bypass Graft Patency:A Randomized Comparison Between Off-Pump and On-Pump Surgery--Angiographic Results of the PRAGUE-4 Trial
William A. Gray, for the ARCHeR Executive Committee and the Study Collaborators
  ARCHeR: Final Composite Endpoint Results for the ARCHeR Study One-Year Results: ACCULINK™ for Revascularization of Carotids in High-Risk Patients

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Accreditation Statement
The Cardiology Center Switzerland is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The ACCF takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The ACCF designates each program described herein approved for 1 hour in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that are spent in the educational activity.

The American Medical Association has determined that physicians not licensed in the US who participate in the CME activity are eligible for AMA PRA category 1 credit.

While offering CME credit hours noted above, the program is not intended to provide extensive training or certification in the field.

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