Original title: Impact of New-Onset Persistent Left Bundle Branch Block on late Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Trancatheter Aortic Valve implantation with a Balloon –Expandable Valve. Reference: Urena Marina, el al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Feb;7(2):128-36. Percutaneous aortic valve implantation brings, sometimes the presence of permanent left bundle branch block (LBBB) that has been associated in some series...
Original title: The effectiveness of prophylactic inferior vena cava filters in trauma patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Reference: Haut ER et al. JAMA Surg. 2014;149:194-202. Trauma is one of the strongest risk factors for pulmonary embolism (PE). Current guidelines recommend low molecular weight heparin therapy which have been proved effective; however, trauma patients often present high risk...
Original title: Acute multivessel revascularization improves 1 year outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction. A nationwide study from AMIS plus registry. Reference: Raban Jeger, et al. International journal of Cardiology 2014;172:76-81 The presence of multiple vessel lesions is present in about 50% of patients referred for primary angioplasty. The accepted strategy is to treat the culprit artery even...
Original title: Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents to Improve Outcome. A Meta-Analysis. Reference: Jae-Sik Jang et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2014, epub ahead of print. Several previous studies and meta-analysis showed that implantation of conventional stents (BMS) intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guided may decrease restenosis and clinical events. This information was not yet clear to drug-eluting...
Original title: Trends in cause of death after percutaneous coronary intervention. Reference: Spoon DB et al. Circulation. 2014; Epub ahead of print. This retrospective study evaluated the specific cause of death in 19077patients who received angioplasty in a center between 1991 and 2008. To perform the analysis, the track was divided into three time periods: 1991-1996, 1997-2002,...
Original title: Clinical Outcomes after Hybrid Coronary Revascularization versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Meta-Analysis of 1,190 Patients. Reference: Ralf E. Harskamp et al. American Heart Journal (2014), epub ahead of print. Hybrid revascularization combines long-term patency of the mammary artery connected to the left anterior descending with minimally invasive drug-eluting stents to other injuries. This in...
Original title: Comparative effectiveness of endovascular and surgical revascularization for patients with peripheral artery disease and critical limb ischemia. Reference: W. Schuyler Jones et al. American Heart Journal 2014. Epub ahead of print. Critical limb ischemia is the most severe condition affecting patients with peripheral vascular disease. Mortality, morbidity, and costs associated with this condition are...
Original title: In-hospital switching of oral P2Y12 inhibitor treatment in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Prevalence, predictors and short-term outcome. Reference: Dimitrios Alexopoulos et al. Am Heart J 2014;167:68-76.e2. Given the availability of 3 Oral P2Y12 receptor inhibitors (clopidogrel, prasugrel, and ticagrelor) with different safety and efficacy profiles, the change from one to another...
Original title: Drug-Eluting Balloon in Peripheral Intervention for the Superficial Femoral Artery. The DEBATE-SFA Randomized Trial (Drug Eluting Balloon in Peripheral Intervention for Superficial Femoral Artery). Reference: Liistro, F, el tal. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2013;6(12):1295-1302 The current treatment of choice in the femoropopliteal area is angioplasty, however, this procedure has a high rate of restenosis...
Original title: Bivalirudin or heparin in primary angioplasty performed through the transradial approach: results from a multicentre registry. Reference: Sciahbasi A et al. Eur Heart J: Acute Cardiovasc Care. Epub ahead of print. Bivalirudin benefit has been demonstrated in terms of bleeding; however when primary angioplasty is performed by radial access this information is not clear. To get...