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Incidence, characteristics, and treatment of valve thrombosis after TAVR

Certain studies have carried out a tomographic follow-up of patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and described...

Progress of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treated with alcohol septal ablation

Courtesy of Dr. José Álvarez. Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) for the treatment of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (OHC) is...

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...

TAVI without predilation is feasible and safe

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has already proven to be beneficial for high-risk and inoperable...

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...

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...

Transradial access shows no benefit of bivalirudin

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

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...