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...
Original Title: Fantom sirolimus-eluting BRS – FANTOM II Trial. Presenter: Alexandre Abizaid This new sirolimus eluting bioresorbable scaffold is the only one which can be directly visualized using conventional angiography. It is able to be expanded to its nominal size in one smooth and continuous inflation step, minimizing artery occlusion time. This was a...
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...
Original Title: Is High Pressure Postdilation Safe in Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds? Optical Coherence Tomography Observations After Noncompliant Balloons Inflated at More than 24 Atmospheres. Reference: Enrico Fabris et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Apr;87(5):839-46. Courtesy of Dr. José Amadeo Guillermo Álvarez. The mechanical properties of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) are different from those of bare...
Título original: Transulnar versus transradial access for coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Khagendra Dahal. Et al. Catheterization and cardiovascular Intervention 2016:87;857-865 Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Transradial access site (TRA) has been shown beneficial over the femoral (TFA), but there is little information on translunar access (TUA) that could...
Original Title: Spontaneous MI after Non–ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome Managed without Revascularization. The TRILOGY ACS Trial. Reference: Renato D. Lopes et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016;67(11):1289-1297. Patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and especially those managed conservatively without revascularization, are at high risk of a new spontaneous infarction. However, MI risk rate...
Original Title: Effect of the presence and type of angina on cardiovascular events in patients without known coronary artery disease referred for elective coronary angiography. Reference: Vavalle JP et al. JAMA Cardiology 2016; Epub ahead of print. Patients presenting typical angina with a negative stress test result prior catheterization have a high rate of heart...
Original Title: Coronary Flow Reserve and Microcirculatory Resistance in Patients with Intermediate Coronary Stenosis. Reference: Joo Myung Lee, el al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2016; 67:1158-69 Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Measuring fractional flow reserve (FFR) helps establish whether intermediate stenosis will generate ischemia, but it won’t help assess microcirculatory function. It has been shown that...
Original Title: Immediate Versus Delayed Invasive Intervention for Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients The RIDDLE-NSTEMI Study (Randomized study of ImmeDiate versus DeLayedinvasivE intervention in patients with Non-ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction). Reference: J Am CollCardiolIntv. 2016. Online before print. This study assessed the clinical impact of immediate invasive intervention (within 2 hours) vs. delayed intervention (within...
Original Title: Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty and Drug-Eluting Stents for Infrapopliteal Lesions in Critical Limb Ischemia (PADI) Trial. Reference: Marlon I. Spreen et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Feb;9(2):e002376. The treatment of infrapopliteal lesions in patients with critical limb ischemia is limited by the high rates of restenosis. The most frequent course of treatment is...