Original title: Access Site Complications After Peripheral Vascular Interventions. Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes. Reference: Daniel Ortiz et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Nov 11. Epub ahead of print. Hematomas and pseudoaneurysms are the most common complications of peripheral angioplasty, though its incidence and risk factors are unclear. A retrospective analysis was performed in 22226 patients receiving peripheral...
Original title: Validation and Comparison of the Long-Term Prognostic Capability of SYNTAX Store-II Among 1528 Consecutive Patients Who Underwent Left Main Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Reference: Bo Xu, et al. JACC Cardiovascular Intervention 2014;7:1128-37. The SYNTAX angiography score is useful when deciding revascularization in multivessel, but with the addition of clinical variables in the second version, SYNTAX score...
Original title: Clinical outcomes and safety of transfemoral aortic valve implantation under general versus local anesthesia: subanalysis of the French Aortic National CoreValve and Edwards 2 registry. Reference: Oguri A et al. CircCardiovascInterv. 2014; 7:602-610. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI) performed under local anesthesia is becoming an increasingly common procedure. This study compared clinical outcomes in patients...
Original title: Reasonable incomplete revascularisation after percutaneouscoronary intervention: the SYNTAX Revascularisation Index. Reference: Philippe Généreux et al. EuroIntervention 2014;10-online publish-ahead-of-print. While the absolute amount of residual disease after coronary angioplasty is associated with poor prognosis, the proportion of treated coronary disease modifying the prognosis is still to be determined. This study attempted to quantify the proportion of coronary...
October 30 – 31, 2014, at Intercontinental Hotel Cali, Colombia. For information and registration write to jornadas@solaci.org Como actividad previa al inicio de las Jornadas SOLACI en Colombia, los doctores José Luis Leiva Pons, Pedro Hidalgo, Marcelo Halac y Antonio Dager practican una implantación de válvula aórtica (TAVI) en el instituto Angiografia de Occidente...
Original title: Impact of diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome on acute and chronic on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity in patients with stable coronary artery disease undergoing drug-eluting stent placement. Reference: Feldman L. et al. Am Heart J. 2014; Epub ahead of print. Diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) or metabolic syndrome patients undergoing drug eluting stent implantation have 3 to 4...
Original title: Impact of coronary artery disease on left ventricular ejection fraction recovery following transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Reference: Freixa X et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2014;Epub ahead of print. This single center study analyzed data form 56 consecutive patients with severe aortic stenosis and LVEF of ≤ 50% undergoing TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) between March 2006...
Original title: Variation in patients’ perceptions of elective percutaneous coronary intervention in stable coronary artery disease: cross sectional study. Referencia: Kureshi F et al. BMJ. 2014;Epub ahead of print. This study included 991 consecutive patients with stable coronary disease undergoing elective PCI in 10 university and community centers between 2009 and 2011. After procedure, patients were asked a...
Original title: Aspirin Treatment and Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary InterventionResults of the ISAR-ASPI Registry. Reference: Katharina Mayer et al. J Am CollCardiol. 2014;64(9):863-871. Aspirin administration, as part of the double antiagregation scheme, is essential in the context of PCI. The correlation between high platelet reactivity to on-clopidogrel treatment and higher events rates has been well established, while data...
Original title: Intravascular Ultrasound-Derived Minimal Lumen Area Criteria for Functionally Significant Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis. Reference: Seung-Jung Park et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2014;7(8):868-874. Deciding on a course of action when facing intermediate main left stenosis is usually challenging. We tend to overestimate the lesion or to use additional methods, other than angiography, to tip...