- The awarded works concerned the individualisation of anti-platelet management based on assessing the risk of ischaemic and haemorrhagic complications in patients undergoing coronary revascularisation. The subject of the publication was also the use of new diagnostic techniques in the prediction of risk and treatment of acute coronary syndromes: optical coherence tomography (OCT), intracoronary ultrasound (IVUS) and computer modelling of fluid dynamics in the functional study of stenosis in the coronary arteries - dr hab. Mariusz Tomaniak, from the 1st Department of Cardiology, said.
The work was carried out in the Invasive Cardiology Laboratory, collaborating with national and international cardiology centres.
Research findings proved:
- safety of shortened antiplatelet treatment in a selected group of patients with coronary artery disease at high risk of complications of interventional therapy,
- the benefits of using a new technique to study stenosis in the left coronary artery trunk (based on computer modelling of the dynamics of blood flow through the vessel),
- the prognostic significance of changes in the coronary artery wall visualised by intracoronary OCT and the coronary flow reserve index calculated from angiography alone.
We would like to recall that, every year, the Ministry of Health awards 25 academic staff in the country. In making its decision, it shall consider the originality and novelty of the achievement, its significance for the development of health care on an international, national or regional scale, and its significance for science or the scientific discipline in which it was obtained.