1- What’s New in the European Guidelines on Peripheral Arterial Disease Since the last version of the European guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial disease in 2011, there have been many trials and registries that warrant guideline adjustments in many aspects. The first novelty is the teamwork that gave way to these<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/02/04/the-most-relevant-articles-of-2018-in-peripheral-vascular-disease/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Is the Obesity Epidemic Putting Patients’ and Physicians’ Health at Risk? In addition to the obvious negative effect on patients, obesity can also affect Interventional Cardiologists’ health, seeing as it involves increased exposure to radiation. Operators are clearly and increasingly exposed to radiation as patient body mass index (BMI) increases. Radiation exposure might be<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/01/15/is-the-obesity-epidemic-putting-patients-and-physicians-health-at-risk/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The potential need for a 7-Fr guidewire, the use of several coronary guidewires and/or a kissing balloon, and the requirement of indispensable monitoring by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) have been used by some interventional cardiologists as excuses to resist radial access. In that sense, left main coronary artery angioplasty was the last stand of femoral access.<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/01/04/radial-access-is-always-preferred-even-for-treatment-of-the-left-main-coronary-artery/" title="Read more" >...</a>
A worldwide survey shows there is much room for improvement as regards transradial access procedures, particularly for the prevention of radial artery occlusion post-procedure. While in many places this has been a standard technique for some time now, other places are yet to evolve, and that is the result of this survey. In the past<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/12/10/less-bivalirudin-and-minimal-use-of-ultrasound-for-puncture-is-the-worldwide-trend-in-transradial-access/" title="Read more" >...</a>
37th SOLACI Regional Sessions – 12° Southern Cone Region. December 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2018. Montevideo, Uruguay. After more than 4 years, SOLACI returns to Montevideo to carry out the XXXVII edition of the Regional SOLACI Sessions. As always, for SOLACI it implies a great motivation and a stimulating challenge to continue promoting the development of<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/12/07/uruguay-sessions-2018/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Coronary perforation has an incidence of 0.5% and it is associated with a 13-fold increase in in-hospital events and a 5-fold increase in 30-day mortality. This event is so catastrophic that its management has become indispensable knowledge to all interventional cardiologists. This accident is most frequently provoked by artery over-dilation caused by a balloon or<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/11/06/practical-management-of-coronary-perforations/" title="Read more" >...</a>
After more than 4 years, SOLACI returns to Montevideo to carry out the XXXVII edition of the Regional SOLACI Sessions. As always, for SOLACI it implies a great motivation and a stimulating challenge to continue promoting the development of interventional cardiology in Latin American. Are you planning on participating in the next 2018 Uruguayan Sessions?<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/10/31/all-you-need-to-know-about-uruguayan-sessions-2018/" title="Read more" >...</a>
“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, Lima, Perú, to be held on October 25th and 2nd, 2018. HOW TO PRESENT A CASE Case submission is meant for young Latin American<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/08/17/peru-sessions-young-interventionists-clinical-case-contest/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The European guidelines on hypertension have been updated and now feature differences compared with American guidelines regarding how to diagnose and treat patients with high blood pressure. The main difference particularly lies in how aggressive physicians should be in lowering blood pressure. These data are available from a preview of the document presented at the<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/07/27/new-european-hypertension-guidelines-contrast-with-american-recommendations/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Endovascular therapy is now considered as the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke caused by large vessel occlusion. The time between symptoms onset and reperfusion emerges as the most determinant factor for good clinical outcomes, much more strongly than even in acute myocardial infarction. The saying “time is brain” is even more relevant than<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2018/07/04/endovascular-therapy-in-stroke-much-evidence-and-few-trained-operators/" title="Read more" >...</a>