Patients with cardiovascular disease infected with COVID-19 are at a particular risk for morbidity and mortality. In any case, it should be noted that most patients requiring cardiovascular care due to ischemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, or structural heart disease are not infected. Being prepared to face this pandemic is as important as guaranteeing...
We are living a pandemic due to the new COVID-19, but the world was already in the midst of a pandemic of cardiovascular disease. Both challenges defy healthcare systems worldwide, and the worst part is that they can coexist. Some symptoms for both diseases can overlap (such as respiratory distress) and they are unreliable, like...
Magnetic resonance (MR) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) correlate moderately as regards the assessment of non-culprit lesions in patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction who underwent primary angioplasty. For a similar degree of diagnostic accuracy, we would require a visual, semiquantitative, or fully quantitative comprehensive assessment of lesions. This work, soon to be published in...
01- Coronavirus and the Heart: How Should Cardiologists Prepare? As the number of confirmed cases increases throughout the globe, a picture is emerging as to what the direct cardiovascular effects of this pandemic may be. Read more HERE 02- TAVR: Should Transradial Approach be the Second Access Site? Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. One of...
The vulnerable features of plaque are independently associated to functional measurements done under hyperemia far better than baseline measurements such as iFR. These findings suggest that not only stenosis severity but also plaque features contribute to functional measurements. This is a sub-study of the PACIFIC (Prospective Comparison of Cardiac PET/CT, SPECT/CT Perfusion Imaging and CT...
A large proportion of patients undergo primary angioplasty beyond the timelines recommended by clinical practice guidelines. These patients have poorer 5-year outcomes compared with those subjected to a pharmaco-invasive strategy. ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction guidelines recommend primary angioplasty as the strategy of choice within 120 min after a diagnostic electrocardiography. If that is not possible, thrombolytic...
The XXXIX Regional SOLACI Sessions in Panama were an extremely successful scientific event. Renowned specialists in hemodynamics from all over Latin America presented their works and shared their knowledge in an event characterized by the utmost respect and comradeship. That is the reason why we share below those presentations, thanking these professionals for their contribution to our...
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is an increasing cause of acute myocardial infarction, particularly in younger women. These infarctions are frequently treated conservatively given the risks entailed by revascularization, due to the possibility of causing an antegrade or retrograde expansion of the dissection. The uncertainty around treatment for these patients gave way to this study (recently...
Given the upcoming Panama and Ecuador 2019 Sessions, solaci.org interviewed Dr. Gustavo Vignolo (Sessions Assistant Director) and asked him about his vision for Latin American interventional cardiology and the importance of a project such as the Sessions to help this specialty reach all corners of our continent. — How is, in your experience, the current...
Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Primary coronary angioplasty has been the treatment of choice for acute myocardial infarction (MI) for many years, but such strategy is associated with nonculprit lesions in a large group of patients. While it has been proven that nonculprit-lesion revascularization offers better outcomes, the groups that would benefit from it are...