Professor for over 40 years, an Uruguayan born in Paris, but proud of being “charrúa”, and passionate about cardiology since very young, Dr. Ricardo Lluberas is today the president of SOLACI not by mere chance: he has nurtured his career and his relationship with this institution with true love, even before SOLACI took its first...
Original Title: Outcomes With the Use of the Retrograde Approach for Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions in a Contemporary Multicenter US Registry. Reference: Dimitri Karmpaliotis et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun;9(6). This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of the retrograde technique for chronic total occlusions. Researchers compared retrograde vs. anterograde technique outcomes...
Original Title: Paclitaxel-eluting balloon versus standard balloon angioplasty in in-stent restenosis of the superficial femoral and proximal popliteal artery: 1-year results of the PACUBA trial. Reference: Kinstner CM et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2016;9:1386-1392. Patients with symptomatic femoropopliteal in-stent restenosis (ISR) have better patency at one year if treated with drug eluting...
Original Title: Treatment of Symptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis with a Novel Resheathable Supra-Annular Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve System. Reference: Ganesh Manoharan et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2015; 8(10):1359-1367. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. Despite the rapid growth and evolution of transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices (TAVR), vascular access complications, paravalvular leak, stroke...
Original Title: Long-Term Mortality in Patients With Radiation-Associated Coronary Artery Disease Treated with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Reference: Reed GW et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun;9(6). Courtesy of Dr. Brian Nazareth Donato. Radiotherapy is often used to treat malignant tumors; however, it is associated with adverse cardiovascular effects such as constrictive pericarditis, valve deterioration...
Sponsored by Abbott Vascular LATAM XXXI SOLACI Sessions – Southern Cone Region 10° November 30th – December 1st, 2016. Puerto Varas – Chile Case Submission: “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,...
Sponsored by Abbott Vascular LATAM XXX SOLACI Sessions – Andean Region 10 October 6 – 7, 2016. Cuenca – Ecuador Case Submission: “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, Cuenca-Ecuador 2016, to...
FIRST PLACE 114 THE IMPACT OF POST-PROCEDURAL ASYMMETRY, EXPANSION AND ECCENTRICITY OF BIORESORBABLE EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING SCAFFOLD AND METALLIC EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING STENT ON CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN THE ABSORB II TRIAL PANNIPA SUWANNASOM1; YOHEI SOTOMI1; RAFAEL CAVALCANTE E SILVA2; CARLOS MACAYA3; JOHN A ORMINSTON4; JONATHAN HILL5; MACIEJ LESIAK6; BERNARD CHEVALIER7; PATRICK W SERRUYS8; YOSHINOBU ONUMA2 1.ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER, HOLLAND;...
Original Title: Incidence and Clinical Outcome of Stent Fractures on the Basis of 6555 Patients and 16482 Drug Eluting Stents From 4 Centers. Reference: Kan J et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun 13;9(11):1115-23. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. Stent fracture (SF) has been associated with instent restenosis (ISR), stent thrombosis (ST) and repeat revascularization...
Original Title: Long-Term Results of Everolimus-Eluting Stents versus Drug-Eluting Balloons in Patients with Bare-Metal In-Stent Restenosis 3-Year Follow-Up of the RIBS V Clinical Trial. Reference: Alfonso F. et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun 27;9(12):1246-55. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. RIBS V 3 year follow up Stents have become the gold standard for...