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Devices to Prepare Severely Calcified Lesions: Is There a Difference When Assessed by Intravascular Imaging?

Severely calcified coronary lesions are found in 25% of patients undergoing PCI, and their presence has a...
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Coronary disease

Should We Start Using Ultra-Thin Struts?

The benefits of DES are well known, as well as the benefits of more recent polymer-based DES...
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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

Calcified Lesions: CTO Strategies for Plaque Preparation

Vascular calcification is a predictor of difficult stent positioning and expansion, which increases the chance of device...
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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

TCT 2022 | Angioplasty vs. Surgery: The BEST Study Long-Term Results

The BEST study was a prospective, randomized study to compare percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents...
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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

TCT 2022 | FAME-3 Trial: post PCI FFR And IVUS in Patients with Three-Vessel Disease

We are well aware of the benefits of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) to assess coronary artery stenosis....
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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

TCT 2022 | BYPASS CTCA

Studies have shown that the use of computed tomography cardiac angiography (CTCA) prior invasive coronary angiography (ICA)...
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Coronary disease

Primary vs Secondary Retrograde Approach in CTO: Differences

Successful chronic total occlusion procedures are on the rise, especially in high volume centers, seeing as they...
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Acute coronary syndromes

Mortality and Bleeding in Access Site Choice: Systematic Review

In 1992, Kiemeneij performed the first transradial coronary procedure, following Campeau's description of that access in 1989....
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