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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

How to Make Radial Access Even Safer with Minimum Effort

Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia.   Since 1990, radial access has progressively gained ground, currently becoming the default technique in most...
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Acute coronary syndromes

Rechanneling a CTO in a Non-Infarct-Related Artery After Primary PCI: Yes or No?

Between 10% and 15% of patients admitted with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction present concurrent coronary chronic total...
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Acute coronary syndromes

ACS and Multivessel Disease: How to proceed

Gentileza del Dr. Javier Castro   In the daily practice, a high percentage of ST elevation myocardial infarction patients...
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Acute coronary syndromes

Are Pharmacoinvasive Strategy and Primary PCI Comparable?

The Strategic Reperfusion Early After Myocardial Infarction trial and the French Registry of Acute Myocardial Infarction 2015 suggest that...
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Antiplatelet

Procedural Complexity Affects Decision-Making Regarding DAPT Duration

Much of the speculation around the way of individualizing dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) duration after coronary angioplasty...
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Acute coronary syndromes

Deferring Lesions by FFR in ACS: Yes or No?

Deferring treatment through angioplasty in non-ischemic lesions by fractional flow reserve (FFR) is associated with excellent long-term...
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Bifurcations

Culotte vs. TAP in Bifurcations: Which is Better?

Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia.   In treating bifurcations, the provisional stenting strategy continues to be preferred. However, a...
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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

Contrast Induced FFR: Cost and Time Effective Alternative

Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro.   Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is the radio of two flows expressed as the...
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