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Simple Lab Tests to Better Stratify Low Flow and Low Gradient AS Patients

Combining B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and high-sensitive cardiac troponin T measures undeniably helps to better stratify severe...

Direct Stenting vs. Conventional Angioplasty and Their Interaction with Thrombus Aspiration

The rates of direct stenting are higher among patients randomized to thrombus aspiration. The rates of clinical...

An Effort Worth Your While: Rechanneling vs. Optimal Medical Treatment in Total Occlusions

Successful rechanneling of a chronic total occlusion (currently around 90%) leads to significant improvement in quality of...

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...

Frailty: What Happens When We Are Too Late in Critical Lower Limb Ischemia

This condition, now “trending” among patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), has expanded to almost all...

HIV and Peripheral Artery Disease: Acknowledging the Association

The role of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the development of vascular disease (specifically peripheral artery disease)...

OCT Provides Hints About the Physiopathology Behind Very Late Stent Thrombosis

Neoatherosclerosis was frequently observed in patients who experienced very late stent thrombosis, particularly those with drug-eluting stents....

Relive the SOLACI-SOCIME 2018 Congress

Over 2180 professionals from all over the world gathered in Mexico City to continue developing interventional cardiology in...