Original Title: Incidence and Clinical Outcome of Stent Fractures on the Basis of 6555 Patients and 16482 Drug Eluting Stents From 4 Centers. Reference: Kan J et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun 13;9(11):1115-23. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. Stent fracture (SF) has been associated with instent restenosis (ISR), stent thrombosis (ST) and repeat revascularization...
Original Title: Percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion of the coronary artery with implantation of bioresorbable everolimus-eluting scaffolds. Poznan CTO-Absorb Pilot Registry. Reference: Maciej Lesiak, et al EuroIntervention 2016;12:e144-e151 Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is a real challenge and have a success rate of around 80% with trained...
Now, you can read the Congress coverage in this newsletter. Go back to Rio for a few minutes! JUNE 15, 2016 COVERAGE Day 1 Opening day, a tribute to Dr. José Eduardo Sousa, the first to perform a coronary catheterization in Brazil, 50 years ago. Live cases and the Cleveland Clinic Symposium, “The year of...
Original Title: Percutaneous Transvenous Transseptal Transcatheter Valve Implantation in Failed Bioprosthetic Mitral Valves, Ring Annuloplasty, and Severe Mitral Annular Calcification. Reference: Eleid MF et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun 13;9(11):1161-74. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. Transfemoral percutaneous transvenous mitral valve implantation is a promising technique and, despite the fact that no devices...
Rio de Janeiro – June 8, 2016. SOLACI-SBHCI 2016, the largest meeting on Interventional Cardiology in Latin America started with more than 1500 attendees. After the opening, by Congress President Marcelo Josén de Carvalho Cantarelli, we honored Dr. José Eduardo Sousa, the first to perform a coronary catheterization in Brazil, 50 years ago. After...
Original Title: Stent Thrombosis with Drug Eluting Stents and Bioresorbable Scaffolds. Evidence from a Network Meta-Analysis of 147 trials. Reference: Kang S et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2016 doi 10.1016. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. When treating heart disease, drug eluting stents (DES) have become essential for PCI. Its main advantage lies on...
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. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2016;9(10):1022-1031. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. At present, fractional flow reserve (FFR) has become the gold standard to define ischemia in intermediate lesions, and to...
Original Title: Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes After Everolimus-Eluting Stenting for Unprotected Left Main Disease and High Anatomic Coronary Complexity. Reference: JACC Cardiovascular Interventions. Doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.02.016. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. In patients with unprotected left main disease (ULMD) associated to complex coronary anatomy, choosing a revascularization strategy can be challenging. Current guidelines recommend surgery for...
On November, 26th and 27th took place in the city of Curitiba, Paraná Estate, Brazil, the 15° Symposium of Interventional Cardiology “Cardio Interv 2015”. Now, you can relive its live cases and conferences. SOLACI express their gratitude to the Costantino Costantini Foundation and to their director Dr. Costantino Costantini, for their invitation to take part...
Original Title: Impact of ejection fraction and aortic valve gradient on outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Reference: Baron SJ et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016;67:2349-2358. Low aortic valve gradient and left ventricular dysfunction are frequent in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI) but only low aortic valve...