SOLACI | Latin American Society of Interventional Cardiology

During the virtual SOLACI-CACI 2021 Congress, the 11th ProEducar Fellows Course—SOLACI’s traditional activity aimed at expanding knowledge and providing didactic tools for all interventional trainees in Latin America—was held.

The course was a huge success: almost 1500 people accessed the Andreas Gruentzig Virtual Room where the activity took place. Furthermore, over 35 prestigious speakers from all over Latin America and important international guests participated and lectured on the most relevant current topics, techniques, and procedures in our specialty.

The event lasted eight hours of intensive training and was divided into five specialized modules. As a complement, highly interesting on-demand seminars were also held.

Please find below all course contents. We hope you find them crucially useful.

Module 1: Vascular Accesses

👨‍🏫 Programa:

Conventional Radial Access and Its Alternatives. When to Use Them and How – Sebastián Peralta
How to Achieve a Safe Femoral Access for Large Devices Step by Step – Fernando Bernardi
Percutaneous Closure Devices. When to Use Them and How. Educational Cases – Mauricio Cavalieri
Recognizing and Treating Vascular Complications – Yigal Piña Reyna

👉 Coordinators: Ricardo Costa, Leandro Lasave
👉 Digital Moderator: Nicolás Zaderenko

Module 2: Complex Coronary Intervention. Educational Clinical Cases

👨‍🏫 Programa:

Clinical Case 1: Helpfulness of Invasive Imaging in the Cath Lab. – José de Ribamar Costa
Clinical Case 2: Calcified Lesion Interventions. Rotablator, Cutting Balloon, Lithotripsy? – Franklin Hanna
Clinical Case 3: How to Approach a Bifurcation Lesion. Which is the Best Option? – Mario Araya
Clinical Case 4: LMCA Treatment. How to Simplify a Complex Situation. – Fernando Kozak

👉 Coordinators: Hugo Londero , Gabriel Maluenda.

Module 3: Clinical Session for Interventionists

👨‍🏫 Programa:

Coronary Intervention in Intermediate Lesions. The Million-Dollar Question: To Intervene or to Treat? – Carlos Collet
Coronary Intervention in Patients with Stable Angina. When and Why? – Pedro Beraldo de Andrade
Interventions in Diabetic Patients with Multivessel Disease. Evidence for a Better Intervention. – Alejandro Goldsmit
Acute Coronary Syndrome with ST-Segment Elevation and Multivessel Disease. Complete Revascularization? – Christian Dauvergne
Ideal Antiplatelet Therapy After Coronary Interventions. When and for How Long? – Gerardo Zapata

👉 – Coordinators: Ricardo Lluberas, Gustavo Pedernera.
👉 Digital Moderator: Hugo José Londero.

Module 4: Structural Heart Disease: Step by Step

👨‍🏫 Programa:

Aortic Valve Implantation: What Should I Know from a CT Scan? Fundamental Measurements – Matías Sztejfman
Practical Demonstration of Aortic Valve Implantation: Self-Expandable and Balloon-Expandable Devices Step by Step. – Guilherme Attizzani
How to Perform an Adequate and Safe Transseptal Puncture. Anatomical and Instrumental Lesson Step by Step. – Juan Granada
Implantation over Mitral Valve. VIV and VIM. Basic Concepts. Step by Step. – Mayra Guerrero
Appendage Closure. Teaching the Technique Step by Step – Márcio Montenegro

👉 Coordinators: Ricardo Lluberas, Gustavo Pedernera.
👉 Digital Moderator: Hugo José Londero.

Module 5: Old Territories, New Interventions

👨‍🏫 Programa:

Renal Denervation in High Blood Pressure: Return to the Cath Lab? – Humberto Casal
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. Current Clinical Aspects and Treatments – Juan Pablo Escalante
Endovascular Treatment of CTEPH. Tips, Secrets, and Teachings – Fabio Solano
How to Approach Complex Venous Thrombosis. Types of Treatment. Educational Case – Ricardo Costantini
Closure – José Mangione, Leandro Lasave