New deadline: February 28th, 2021. As we have already informed, due to the uncertainty generated by the current global health situation, the SOLACI CACI Congress scheduled for February 2021, will be held on August 4 thru 6, 2021 at Buenos Aires Hilton Hotel, in Argentina. For this reason, the Scientific Committee has decided to extend<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/09/28/call-for-science-solaci-caci-2021-new-deadline/" title="Read more" >...</a>
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Antiaggregation indication after peripheral intervention (PVI) can vary up to 50% depending on center, operator, and procedure. This highlights the huge variation in indication and the scarce evidence there is on this matter. Most cardiologists would like to simply transfer the information from the coronaries to the superficial femoral, but we can confirm this does<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/09/15/evidence-or-theory-antiaggregation-scheme-after-peripheral-vascular-intervention/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Cardiac complications are among the most frequent in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic lesions. This excess of cardiac events in patients with no neurological symptoms of carotid stenosis is essential to balance the risk/benefit ratio of carotid endarterectomy. A routine cardiology consultation prior surgery could reduce perioperative infarction rate, general complications and even mortality. <a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/09/11/do-we-need-to-see-a-cardiologist-before-a-carotid-endarterectomy/" title="Read more" >...</a>
New guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) were released at the 2020 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) virtual congress. This document incorporates several findings from the latest clinical trials, but also represents a great shift in terms of how physicians from different specialties should classify and manage arrhythmia after confirming the<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/09/08/esc-2020-2020-atrial-fibrillation-guidelines-news-on-diagnosis-classification-and-care/" title="Read more" >...</a>
There are several studies from all corners of the world (China, Europe, USA) presenting data on the impact of COVID19 on interventional cardiology in general, and on MI in particular. What is new about this study is that it presents data on LATAM and that it has been published in an international magazine. Seldom do<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/08/26/latam-information-on-the-impact-of-the-pandemic-with-a-focus-on-mi/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Most young COVID-19 patients not requiring hospitalization showed abnormal cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) beyond two months after diagnosis. Myocardial injury had been found in more serious cases, but not in a healthy population recovered at home. The increasing evidence of the virus’ capacity to directly affect the heart across the whole population and disease<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/08/19/myocardial-injury-for-covid-19-even-in-young-patients-with-mild-symptoms/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Cath lab activation—and everything that entails—within 20 minutes was associated with the target of performing primary angioplasty in under 2 hours in at least 75% of patients. Historically, door-to-balloon time was measured, which provided a rough idea of where there could be flaws to fix. This is particularly true in the case of patients who need to<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/08/15/early-activation-to-speed-up-treatment-of-infarcted-patients/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The number of sudden deaths reported around the world is on the rise in Covid-19 times. These deaths are caused either by the virus and its capacity to produce lethal arrhythmias or by the fact that patients are staying away from hospitals and are not being examined. Cardiologists were the first to warn that the<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/07/08/europcr-2020-sudden-death-increase-two-to-three-times-while-mi-rate-falls/" title="Read more" >...</a>
All clinical practice guidelines indicate healthy lifestyle recommendations and, as cardiologists, we have slowly but surely implemented such practice. However, patients come to us once they have had health problems. What would happen if people had these recommendations at an earlier stage in their life? Would that prevent them from ever becoming patients? There was<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2020/07/01/effects-of-health-promotion-since-childhood/" title="Read more" >...</a>