Por Dr. Miguel Rati.
New Stent Platforms & Daily Practice Case Presentation
Por Dr. Oscar Mendiz.
STENTS METALICOS EN NIÑOS PEQUEÑOS
By Dr. Carlos Zabal.
Implante de Stent em Canal Arterial
By Dr. Carlo Pilla.
Intracoronary Brachytherapy for Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis
3 Year Clinical Outcome Analysis and Failure Predictors in the Use of Intracoronary Brachytherapy for Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis In-stent restenosis (ISR) has been one of the greatest obstacles standing in the way of long term patency in percutaneous coronary interventions. However, the use of drug eluting stents (DES) and their development has helped reduce ISR...
Plaque Erosion with No Stenting in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Are There Event Predictors to Avoid This Strategy?
Event predictors in patients with plaque erosion and no stenting. A third of all acute coronary syndrome (ACS) cases are caused by plaque erosion. In the initial EROSION study, it was shown that patients with plaque erosion (as evidenced by OCT, with stenosis <70%, TIMI III flow, and asymptomatic) were stabilized without stent implantation (no...
Stent Revascularization in Femoropopliteal Disease: An Analysis of Clustered Randomized Trials
A study compared pooled data of claudication and critical ischemia patients treated with stenting vs. by-pass surgery in femoropopliteal disease. The main objective of revascularization in femoropopliteal disease is to improve the quality of life and functional capacity of claudication patients who did not respond to medical treatment, and to save the affected limb in...
Left Main Coronary Artery PCI Using State-of-the-Art Zotarolimus-Eluting Stents
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to the left main coronary artery (LMCA) with drug-eluting stent implantation is currently a major challenge due to the size of the vessel, the compromise of a bifurcation lesion in important branches, and the potential risk of complications. Available information on LMCA PCI comes from studies where DES stents were implanted...
Is There Any Difference in Clinical Outcomes Between Transient and Persistent Acute Kidney Injury in ACS Patients after Invasive Treatment?
Acute kidney injury (AKI) following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with prolonged hospital stay and worse prognosis at followup. However, serum creatinine level increase can either be transient or permanent. At present, retrospective studies show transient AKI patients present similar survival rate to patients with no AKI. The prognostic implications of transient and persistent...
Trans-Stent Gradient as a Predictor of Adverse Events at Followup
Stenting a coronary lesion should not present a drop in pressure when measuring the treated segment with fractional flow reserve (FFR). FFR based trans-stent gradient should involve a segment of the sub-expanded vessel or instent obstruction as plaque prolapse or thrombus. The link between post-stenting physiology and long-term outcomes have been looked at in several...