Alexandre Abizaid 2012-08-08
Post Stent Antithrombotic Management of the Patient on Oral Anticoagulation: Disentangling a Trouble-prone Situation
Mario A. Benavides 2012-08-08
Enduring Drug Eluting Stents: Update on the Current Status
Alexandre Abizaid 2012-08-08
2nd-generation drug-eluting stents, results for “real” patients at two years
Original title: Clinical Outcome Following Stringent Discontinuation of Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy After 12 Months in Real-World Patients Treated With Second-Generation Zotarolimus-Eluting Resolute and Everolimus-Eluting Xience V Stents: Two-Year Follow-up of the Randomized TWENTE Trial. Reference: Keneth T, Hanim S, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013. Article in press. In recent years there have been new drug-eluting...
Angioplasty with stenting in ischemic stroke when thrombolytic agents won
Original title: A Controlled Trial of Revascularization in Acute Stroke. Reference: Martin Roubec et al. Radiology. 2012;Epub ahead of print. One of the most crucial forecast factors in patients undergoing acute ischemic stroke, stroke caused by a blockage in a brain artery, is the time window to recanalization. Thrombolytic agents have been proved useful but not always achieve...
Randomized study of bioabsorbable polymer-coated sirolimus-eluting stent: DESSOLVE II protocol results
Original title: Randomised study of a bioabsorbable polymer-coated sirolimus-eluting stent: results of the DESSOLVE II trial. Reference: Wijns W EuroIntervention 2015 Apr 22;10(12):1383-90. Multicenter, randomized study, which enrolled in 26 centers, a total of 184 patients 2:1 (bioabsorbable polymer-coated sirolimus-eluting stent, (SES) [n = 123] versus zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) [n = 61]). All patients were evaluated with quantitative...
Persistent intraoperative leak Type 1A after stent implantation
Original title: Outcomes of persistent intraoperativa Type Ia endoleak after Standard endovascular aneurysm repair. Reference: Alistair Millen, et al. J. Vasc. Surg 2015;61:1185-91 The purpose of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) in the infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (IAAA) is to prevent growth and rupture. Inadequate proximal seal by the stent favors the presence of leak type 1A that preserves...