Eleftheria Baltagianni

High Bleeding Risk Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: How to Choose the Optimal Antithrombotic Therapy, Its Duration and the Right Stent; A Comprehensive Review of the Current Literature and Proposed Treatment Algorithms

High bleeding risk (HBR) patients represent a significant proportion of those who undergo percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). The accurate diagnosis of the HBR population is essential because they suffer significantly higher rates of mortality and bleeding compared with no...

Left and Right Atrial Strain Across the Heart Failure Continuum: Multifaceted Markers of Subclinical Mechanical Dysfunction and Haemodynamic Burden

Heart failure (HF) is increasingly recognized as a progressive syndrome that begins long before patients develop clinical signs or symptoms, during which conventional echocardiographic parameters may fail to detect early myocardial impairment. Atrial strain imaging by speckle-tra...