Original Title: One-year clinical outcomes with SAPIEN 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement in high risk and inoperable patients with severe aortic stenosis. Reference: Herrmann H et al. Circulation. 2016; Epub ahead of print. Data presented at this last TCT annual meeting about the low rate of events at one year in inoperable patients with...
Original Title: The Electrocardiogram after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Determines the Risk for Post-Procedural High-Degree AV Block and the Need for Telemetry Monitoring Reference: J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2016;9(12):1269-1276. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. So far, we have not been able to determine the moment high degree atrioventricular block (AVB) takes place after...
Original Title: Aortic Angulation Attenuates Procedural Success Following Self-Expandable But Not Balloon-Expandable TAVR. Reference: Abramowitz Y et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Jul 8. [Epub ahead of print]. The angulation degree between aorta and heart can make precise valve implantation challenging, especially extreme angulation, such as a horizontal aortic root. As obvious as it...
Live Case broadcasted on June 9, 2016 by TBR productions of New York to Rio de Janeiro, from Columbia University. Doctors: Dimitri Karmpaliots y Jeffrey Moses. Panelists: Alexandre Antonio Cunha Abizaid – BRAZIL, Amanda Guerra Moraes Rego Sousa – BRAZIL Panelists – Fausto Feres – BRAZIL, Costantino Roberto Frack Costantini – BRAZIL, Adriano Mendes Caixeta – BRAZIL, José...
Professor for over 40 years, an Uruguayan born in Paris, but proud of being “charrúa”, and passionate about cardiology since very young, Dr. Ricardo Lluberas is today the president of SOLACI not by mere chance: he has nurtured his career and his relationship with this institution with true love, even before SOLACI took its first...
Original Title: Transcatheter Replacement of Failed Bioprosthetic Valve. Large Multicenter Assessment of the Effect of Implantation Depth on Hemodynamics after Aortic Valve-in Valve. Reference: Matheus Simonato, et al. Circ. Cardiovasc. Interv 2016;9:e003651 Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. At present, most patients undergoing surgical valve replacement receive a bioprosthetic valve, which lasts from 10 to...
Sponsored by Abbott Vascular LATAM XXXI SOLACI Sessions – Southern Cone Region 10° November 30th – December 1st, 2016. Puerto Varas – Chile Case Submission: “Fostering Hemodynamics among Young Cardiologists”. It is with great pleasure that we hereby invite all young Latin American cardiologists specializing in hemodynamics to submit relevant clinical cases to the next SOLACI Sessions,...
Sponsored by Abbott Vascular LATAM XXX SOLACI Sessions – Andean Region 10 October 6 – 7, 2016. Cuenca – Ecuador Case Submission: “Fostering Hemodynamics among Young Cardiologists”. It is with great pleasure that we hereby invite all young Latin American cardiologists specializing in hemodynamics to submit relevant clinical cases to the next SOLACI Sessions, Cuenca-Ecuador 2016, to...
FIRST PLACE 114 THE IMPACT OF POST-PROCEDURAL ASYMMETRY, EXPANSION AND ECCENTRICITY OF BIORESORBABLE EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING SCAFFOLD AND METALLIC EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING STENT ON CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN THE ABSORB II TRIAL PANNIPA SUWANNASOM1; YOHEI SOTOMI1; RAFAEL CAVALCANTE E SILVA2; CARLOS MACAYA3; JOHN A ORMINSTON4; JONATHAN HILL5; MACIEJ LESIAK6; BERNARD CHEVALIER7; PATRICK W SERRUYS8; YOSHINOBU ONUMA2 1.ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER, HOLLAND;...
Original Title: Utilizing Post-Intervention Fractional Flow Reserve to Optimize Acute Results and the Relationship to Long-Term Outcomes Reference: Shiv K. Agarwal, et al. JACC Cardiovascular Intervention 2016;9:1022-31 Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Fractional flow reserve has shown benefits and it is considered the gold standard to assess intermediate lesions (Class IA), but its...