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TCT 2018 | SYNTAXES: 10 Year Follow Up is ‘Trendy’

The SYNTAX trial had a 5-year follow-up, but the SYNTAXES (“ES” for extended survival) was specifically designed...

TCT 2018 | PREPARE-CALC: Rotational Atherectomy vs. Cutting Balloon in Calcified Lesions

Compared against conventional predilation with balloon, rotational atherectomy is associated with higher procedural success rate in severely...

Stroke Rate after CABG vs PCI in over 10,000 Patients

Repeat revascularization rate has historically been the weak spot of PCI when compared against CABG: we are...

A Simple Trick to Improve Our Transradial Punctures

Transradial access is here to stay; that much has been clear for some time now. However, some...

ESC 2018 | ART: Disappointment with Bilateral Internal-Thoracic Artery Grafts After a 10-Year Follow-Up

Published 5-year results had been neutral for bilateral vs. single internal-thoracic artery grafts, but, at the time,...

SOLACI-SOCIME 2018 | Usefulness of the functional evaluation with iFR and FFR in bifurcations to define PCI

Read articles on the main presentations of the first day of SOLACI-SOCIME 2018 Congress. See the presentation by Dr....

ESC 2018 | FUTURE: A Thorn in FFR and More Questions than Answers

As observed at the preliminary analysis that motivated the FUTURE trial early termination, the use of fractional...

What Happens with Small Dissections and Imperfections Only Shown by OCT?

When we carry out an angioplasty guided by angiography alone, as we historically have, we are almost...