The safety and efficacy of drug-coated balloons (DCB) has been established for the treatment of in-stent restenosis of conventional bare-metal stents (BMS) and drug-eluting stents (DES). Furthermore, these devices are also used to treat de novo coronary lesions, as demonstrated in the BASKET-SMALL 2—where DCBs were non-inferior to stents—and the DEBUT RCT trials—, where DCBs...
Left main coronary artery percutaneous coronary intervention (LMCA PCI) is a treatment option that is increasingly used in our setting. One of the reasons for choosing this therapeutic strategy is the improvements in devices and techniques. However, the long-term results of LMCA PCI are not well established. The aim of this retrospective study was to...
✔️ Watch again the ABBOTT Symposium in the SOLACI-CACI 2021 Virtual Congress. ✔️ Topic: Using the MLD MAX Algorithm in OCT-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Interventions. 👨🏫 Program: 00:05 – Introduction- Dr. Alejandro Cherro (ARG). 02:34 – Concepts on the Treatment of Complex and Challenging Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) – Guided Cases Using MLD MAX –...
Live Case broadcasted on June 9, 2016 by TBR productions of New York to Rio de Janeiro, from Columbia University. Doctors: Dimitri Karmpaliots y Jeffrey Moses. Panelists: Alexandre Antonio Cunha Abizaid – BRAZIL, Amanda Guerra Moraes Rego Sousa – BRAZIL Panelists – Fausto Feres – BRAZIL, Costantino Roberto Frack Costantini – BRAZIL, Adriano Mendes Caixeta – BRAZIL, José...
Review: Stable coronary disease remains a scenario where percutaneous coronary intervention, (PCI), has not cleared the edges. In a study conducted in 28 centers in Europe and the United States, a design model was created where all patients enrolled consecutively, (all comers trial in order to avoid selection bias), received an invasive functional assessment using...
Original title: Comparative Outcomes After Unprotected Left Main Stem Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A National Linked Cohort Study of 5,065 Acute and Elective Cases From the BCIS Registry (British Cardiovascular Intervention Society). Reference: Sami S. Almudarra, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2014;7:717-30 Although myocardial revascularization surgery has long been the gold standard treatment for left main lesions, PCI has...
Original title: Long-Term Clinical Outcome Intervention Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Ostial/Midshaft Lesion in Unprotected Left main Coronary Artery From The DELTA Registry. Reference: Toru Nagamuna et al. JACC Cardiovascular Intervention. Article in Press Even though surgery remains the “gold standard” to treat UMCLA lesions, current guidelines have incorporated PCI as class IIa at ostium/midshaft level. The...
Original title: Ambulatory Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Safe, Effective, and Cost-Saving Strategy. Reference: Philippe Le Corvoisier et al. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 81:15–23 (2013). The number of PCI procedures has increased and for many interventional cardiology centers PC interventions entail significant resource consumption. Reducing post procedure hospital stay could reduce costs and optimize hospitalization resources. The safety...
Introduction Chronic total occlusion (CTO) represents the most challenging setting for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and multivessel coronary disease (MCD) is often treated in a staggered manner and in a deferred procedure. Although transfemoral is one of the common access site, the transradial access (TRA) has been used with similar procedural success [1]. The distal...
We have the honor to invite you to participate in the Latin American Registry of Percutaneous Interventions in Coronary Bifurcations – LATAM Bif Registry. Coronary bifurcations represent a field of particular interest in interventional cardiology, representing 15-20% of coronary angioplasties performed in our daily practice. The LATAM Bif Registry is the scientific research program of the...