Invasive Treatment Strategy for Older Patients with Myocardial Infarction: @NEJM
🥸 Unlike Fire, SENIOR-RITA trial showed that invasive strategy did not results in lower CV death/MI in older pts >75 yrs!!
😱 Congratulations to @VijayKunadian and team
🥸 Summary
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❤️🔥Cardiovascular disease lead cause of mortality in older adults
❤️🔥Read here our individual patient meta-analysis from Italy, Spain, UK, Norway, Sweden-invasive vs conservative care of NSTEACS in older adults @GHirlekar@DrDamluji
https://t.co/XsNFVGBp27
Improving quality of later life sometimes means less medical intervention not more. This should be the patient's informed decision.
Older people and their families need to have realistic conversations with their doctors including about levels of intervention they want. (5/5)
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❤️NSTEACS patients are heterogeneous population
❤️Previous studies under represented for older adults & women
❤️Previous risk scores do not reflect current practice
❤️Read here work led by @rbnavn Navin Bala @Drroxmehran@mirvatalasnag
https://t.co/YLnnu59kKo
💥High level of multi-morbidity in older adults with NSTEACS having invasive care
💥5 year mortality significantly higher in those with multiple co-morbidities ~50%
💥Read👇great work from the team led by @Beska
💥One size does not fit all!
https://t.co/NtDzxURqri
@DrDamluji
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♦️NSTEACS occurs >often in older pts
♦️70% of such pts are frail/prefrail
♦️Mortality at 5yrs post PCI ~30% > in frail pts
♦️@SNR_RITA_Trial ongoing…
♦️Read here work by Ratcovich et al @KAlexanderMD
@mirvatalasnag @JDodsonMD @DrDamluji https://t.co/ETpzPiaBBR
♦️Heart disease leading cause of death in older adults
♦️Less likely to receive guideline recommended treatment
♦️Frailty, multi-morbidity linked to worse outcomes
♦️We explore this in our manuscript led by @GregBMills1
💥Open access for free download😊
https://t.co/l452O1QJTJ