1- These Were the Most Relevant Article of 2018 in the Field of Coronary Diseases Read the best articles on coronary heart disease from 2018 at solaci website. Read more 2- The 10 Commandments of ESC’s New STEMI Guidelines The authors have given an entertaining account of the most relevant points and differences between…
The Most Relevant Articles of 2018 in Peripheral Vascular Disease
1- What’s New in the European Guidelines on Peripheral Arterial Disease Since the last version of the European guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial disease in 2011, there have been many trials and registries that warrant guideline adjustments in many aspects. The first novelty is the teamwork that gave way to these…
The Most Relevant Articles of 2018 in Pharmacology and Clinical Cardiology – Part 2
1- What Antiplatelet Therapy Should We Use in Patients with Stroke/TIA? Interesting Results for the POINT Trial The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) recently published an article about the POINT trial (simultaneously presented at the European Stroke Organisation Conference), a long-awaited randomized clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of dual antiplatelet therapy…
The Most Relevant Articles of 2018 in Pharmacology and Clinical Cardiology
1- New High Blood Pressure Guidelines The wait is finally over: the high blood pressure guidelines that have been in the works for the past 3 years saw the light of day at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2017 Scientific Sessions. Read more 2- New European Hypertension Guidelines Contrast with American Recommendations The European…
The Most Important Articles of 2018 in Structural Heart Diseases
1- ESC 2018 | MITRA FR: Testing MitraClip for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation In secondary mitral regurgitation, mitral-valve leaflets and chordae are structurally normal and mitral regurgitation results from alterations in left ventricular geometry and function. Read more 2- TCT 2018 | COAPT: MitraClip in Patients with Secondary Mitral Regurgitation The prognosis of patients with…
These Were the Most Relevant Article of 2018 in the Field of Coronary Diseases
1- The CULPRIT-SHOCK Study Is Finally Published in NEJM and It Is Bound to Change Guidelines During SOLACI’s coverage of the TCT 2017 Congress in Denver, Colorado, we already mentioned some of the outcomes of this study that has arrived to revolutionize clinical practice, given the differences between its results and those of the classic…
The 10 most consulted articles at SOLACI during 2018
1- New High Blood Pressure Guidelines The wait is finally over: the high blood pressure guidelines that have been in the works for the past 3 years saw the light of day at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2017 Scientific Sessions. Read more 2- The 10 Commandments of ESC’s New STEMI Guidelines The authors…
The 10 Most Read Articles of December
1- Everolimus-Eluting Stents Finally Have a Rival and Not Just a “Non-Inferior” Stent In this large randomized trial, there were significant differences as regards both target-lesion failure and target-vessel-related infarction, which persisted through a 2-year follow-up and favored treatment with an ultrathin-strut bioresorbable-polymer sirolimus-eluting stent (Orsiro) compared with the gold standard, a durable-polymer everolimus-eluting stent…
SOCHICAR@SOLACI Symposium at SOCHICAR 2018 Congress
Within the 55th Chilean Congress of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, which is taking place in Concepción, Chile, SOLACI held a Joint Session with SOCHICAR on Structural Heart Disease. The moderators for this session were Dr. Mario Araya (Chile), Dr. Eugenio Marchant (Chile), and Dr. Hugo Londero (Argentina). Among the participating lecturers, the presentations by Marcio Montenegro (Percutaneous Treatment of Functional…
SOLACI@SOVECI Symposium at the XVI Venezuelan Congress on Interventional Cardiology
The XVI Venezuelan Congress on Interventional Cardiology will take place next Saturday, December 1st, 2018, at La Trinidad Teaching Medical Center (Caracas). SOLACI is honored to contribute with the organization of this event by means of two symposiums addressing important issues related with Interventional Cardiology on Structural Heart Disease. Here is the detailed information for…