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Acute coronary syndromes

Prior assistance with Impella 2.5 lowers 30-day mortality in cardiogenic shock due to unprotected left main coronary artery lesion

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. The prevalence of cardiogenic shock in acute myocardial infarction (MI) is 7%-10%, and it is associated...
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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

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...
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Coronary disease

CTO in patients with acute myocardial infarction increases long term mortality

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. It has been proved that in a setting of acute myocardial infarction with multivessel...
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Coronary disease

Success in CTOs caused by restenosis lowers cardiac mortality

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Nowadays, chronic total occlusions (CTO) due to in-stent restenosis (ISR) represent 5%-25% of all...
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Coronary disease

The use of IVUS in unprotected left main PCI associated to better outcomes, compared to angiography guided PCI

Courtesy of Dr. Gustavo Leiva. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) has traditionally been the procedure of choice in patients...
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Acute coronary syndromes

The transradial approach reduces the risk of kidney injury in acute patients

It remains unclear whether transradial access, compared with transfemoral access, presents a different risk of post-procedural kidney...
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Acute coronary syndromes

Transradial access shows no benefit of bivalirudin

The aim of this study was to compare bivalirudin against heparin in patients with ST elevation acute...
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Coronary disease

Successful angioplasty in elderly patients with chronic total occlusion reduces mortality

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Nowadays, the number of coronary angioplasties carried out on patients with chronic total...
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