Rio de Janeiro – June 8, 2016. SOLACI-SBHCI 2016, the largest meeting on Interventional Cardiology in Latin America started with more than 1500 attendees. After the opening, by Congress President Marcelo Josén de Carvalho Cantarelli, we honored Dr. José Eduardo Sousa, the first to perform a coronary catheterization in Brazil, 50 years ago. After...
LV: Everolimus Eluting Stents vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
Original Title: Revascularization in Patients with Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease and Severe Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction: Everolimus Eluting Stents vs Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Reference: Bangalore et al. Circulation. 2016 May 5. Epub ahead of print. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. Guidelines recommend coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) over percutaneous coronary...
Optimal Strategy for Side Branch Intervention in Bifurcations
Original Title: Optimal Strategy for Provisional Side Branch Intervention in Coronary Bifurcation Lesions. 3 – Year Outcomes of the SMART – STRATEGY Randomized Trial. Reference: Song YB et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2016;9:517-26. Courtesy of Dr. José A. G. Álvarez. The present publication is about the three year follow up outcomes of...
Could CT angiography replace coronary angiography in the short term?
Original Title: CT Angiography for the Prediction of Hemodynamic Significance in Intermediate and Severe Lesions. Head-to-Head Comparison with Quantitative Coronary Angiography Using Fractional Flow Reserve as the Reference Standard. Reference: Matthew J. Budoff et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Img. 2016;9(5):559-564. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive...
Which intraprocedural thrombotic events impact PCI outcomes
Original Title: Which Intraprocedural Thrombotic Events Impact Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Coronary Syndromes? A Pooled Analysis of the HORIZONS-AMI and ACUITY Trials. Reference: Jeffrey D. Wessler et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Feb 22;9(4):331-7. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. Intraprocedural thrombotic events (IPTEs) indicate short and term prognosis in PCI patients. This...
Does PCI Improve Survival in Patients with Stable Heart Disease? COURAGE Extended Analysis
Original Title: Effect of PCI on Long-Term Survival in Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease. Reference: Steven P. Sedlis et al. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1937-46. Courtesy of Dr. Santiago Alonso. Centro Cardiológico Americano. Sanatorio Americano. Montevideo, Uruguay. During a median follow up of 4.6 years, with 2287 stable heart disease or silent ischemia patients,...
Educational Journal N° 103
Edición Especial | Congreso SOLACI-SOCIME 2015, in partnership with TCT 1. Reparación endovascular de la patología de aorta torácica a) Tratando anatomías complejas con TEVAR y EVAR b) El valor de la imagen de la tomografía computada de alta resolución en el diagnóstico y detección de complicaciones en pacientes con síndrome aórtico agudo c) La...
Bioabsorbable and Polymer Free Stents:Hope or Hype?
By: Jeffrey W. Moses
Is it Time to Rethink Interventional Pharmacology in the Era of Radial PCI?
By: Jeffrey W. Moses
FAME II: Ischemia guided (IG) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is superior to medical treatment.
Review: Stable coronary disease remains a scenario where percutaneous coronary intervention, (PCI), has not cleared the edges. In a study conducted in 28 centers in Europe and the United States, a design model was created where all patients enrolled consecutively, (all comers trial in order to avoid selection bias), received an invasive functional assessment using...