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: Coronary artery bypass grafting vs. percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with three-vessel disease: final five-year follow-up of the SYNTAX trial. Reference: Eur Heart J. 2014 May 21. pii: ehu213. (Epub ahead of print). The SYNTAX study was one of the largest randomized clinical studies comparing long-term results of angioplasty versus surgery in multivessel disease and /or...
Original title: A Clinical and Angiographic Study of the XIENCE V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System in the Treatment of Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease. The EXECUTIVE (EXecutive RCT: Evaluating XIENCE V in a Multi Vessel Disease) Trial. Reference: Flavio Ribichini et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2013. Article in press. Drug-eluting stents (DES ) have emerged...
Original title: Randomized Trial of Preventive Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PRAMI trial). Referencia: David S. Wald et al. N Engl J Med 2013.DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1305520. Patients developing ST segment elevation myocardial infarction are effectively treated with primary angioplasty to responsible artery . It is unclear whether revascularized other significant lesions in other non culprit vessels will prevent future events...
Original title: One-Stop Hybrid Coronary Revascularization versus Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for the Treatment of Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: Three-Year Follow-up Results from A Single Institution. Reference: Liuzhong Shen et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2013. Article in press. Accepted Manuscript. A mammary bridge to anterior descending artery (LMCA) with a permeability >...
It has been reported that the two stents technique is not superior to a provisional stent when treating bifurcations. However, the optimal approach to rescue a secondary branch (SB) when initially opting for provisional stenting has not been established. The aim of this study was to determine angioplasty indication using balloon or stent for...
Original title: ISAR DESIRE 3: Drug-eluting balloon is best option for restenosis of limus-eluting stents Reference: Dr Robert Byrne. TCT 2012. Miami, Fl. The first of the ISAR DESIRE trials showed that drug-eluting stents (DES) were the best strategy for treating restenosis of a bare metal stent, the second ISAR DESIRE trial tested the hypothesis of changing or...