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SOLACI CACI 2017 | BVS: from clinical evidence to daily practice

Read articles on the main presentations of the first day of SOLACI-CACI 2017 Congress. See the presentation by Dr. Stephen...

MRS vs. DES: Which one is associated with better long-term quality of life?

The SYNTAX (Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery) trial, which included patients with...

PCI Mortality and Volume in One Center: Associated?

The relationship between procedure volume and prognosis after a percutaneous coronary intervention remains unclear. Intuitively, we tend...

Glycemic control and risk of repeat revascularization

The association between glycemic control after coronary angioplasty and outcomes of the latter is controversial in many...

New generation DES present better results in vein grafts than older DES and BMS

There is little information comparing contemporary drug eluting stents (DES)  against bare metal stents (BMS), for PCI in...

BVS: Controvertial Scaffold

Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. The advent of resorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) generated high expectations among interventionists because...

Less volume, more mortality: should we be concerned?

Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. In general, guidelines recommend a number of procedures a year for operators to maintain...

Same-day discharge after coronary angioplasty is increasingly popular but still not the gold standard

The length of hospital stay after elective coronary angioplasty varies significantly among operators and hospitals, according to...