The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released an expert consensus statement providing cardiologists, oncologists and internal medicine physicians guidance for treating patients facing concomitant cardiovascular disease and cancer. The document, “SCAI Expert Consensus Statement: Evaluation, Management, and Special Considerations of Cardio-Oncology Patients in the Cardiac Catherization Laboratory,” was released in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions (CCI),...
TAVR minimally invasive, shorter hospital stay and costs without compromising safety or efficacy
Original title: Comparison of Transfemoral TranscatheterAortic Valve Replacement Performedin the Catheterization Laboratory(Minimalist Approach) Versus HybridOperating Room (Standard Approach). Outcomes and CostAnalysis. Reference: VasilisBabaliaros et al. J Am CollCardiolIntv 2014;7:898–904. This retrospective study of a center analyzed the results of percutaneous aortic valve replacement (TAVR) performed with a minimally invasive technique that included the closure of the femoral access...
What are the chances we presently have of carrying a cardiovascular disease at some point in our lives?
Original title: Lifetime Risk and Years Lived Free of Total Cardiovascular Disease Reference: John T. Wilkins et al. JAMA. 2012; 308(17):1795-1801. This study analyzed more than 120,000 patients in the cohorts of large community studies, such as the Framingham, who did not have cardiovascular disease at the time of inclusion Considering all the age subgroups, only between 1.7%...
Bleeding risk in ACS. Do the scores we have work?
Original title: Comparing the predictive validity of three contemporary bleeding risk scores in acute coronary syndrome Reference: European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care 2012 1: 222 DOI: 10.1177/2048872612453924 The aim of this study was to compare the validity of the three most widely used scores to predict the risk of bleeding in patients who are hospitalized for acute...
Passive Leg Raise: An Indispensable Maneuver in the Study of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for at least 50% of the HF population, with an increasing prevalence. Its diagnosis is based on the presence of typical symptoms and increased filling pressures, with an ejection fraction greater than 50%. In some cases—especially in the earlier stages of the disease—, laboratory and echocardiographic...
Martínez Ríos: “SOLACI Went from a Dream to a World-Renowned Society”
Dr. Marco Antonio Martínez Ríos comes from a family of physicians. “Studying Medicine was the most natural thing in the world for me,” admits Martínez Ríos, who in 1993 became president of the Latin American Group of Interventional Cardiology (Grupo Latinoamericano de Cardiología Intervencionista, GLACI), the seed that would grow to become SOLACI in 1994. ...
Magazines
JSHD | JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE The scope of the Journal of Structural Heart Disease includes all adults with structural and congenital heart diseases, including imaging related to interventional therapies in structural and congenital heart disease. Principal subjects of the journal include the aortic valve, the aortic arch, the mitral valve, the left atrial...
The Importance of TIMI 3 flow in primary angioplasty
Original title: Predicitors of suboptimal TIMI flow alter primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: results from the HORIZON-AMI trial. Reference: Adriano Caixeta et al. Eurointervention 2013;9:220-227 Primary angioplasty showed greater efficacy than thrombolytics but one out of every four patients cannot achieve TIMI 3 flow. The Horizons-AMI trial randomized 3,602 patients to receive bivalirudin or heparin plus inhibitors...
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