He grew up in the 40s, surrounded by cap screws, dental crowns and damp from the Paraná River. His father, mother and two brothers, were dentists. Years later, his daughter and niece would also become dentists. But since his early years, Hugo Londero had known he would become a physician. He was certain his greatest<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/08/02/hugo-londero-the-arrival-of-interventional-cardiology-has-changed-many-physicians-personalities/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Original Title: Predictors of Restenosis Following Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting. Reference: Elena Zapata-Arriaza et al. Stroke. 2016 Jun 21. Epub ahead of print. Restenosis after carotid PCI is associated to an increase of stroke and death risk. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk and predicting factors associated to carotid restenosis<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/07/15/predictors-of-restenosis-and-stroke-following-carotid-pci/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Professor for over 40 years, an Uruguayan born in Paris, but proud of being “charrúa”, and passionate about cardiology since very young, Dr. Ricardo Lluberas is today the president of SOLACI not by mere chance: he has nurtured his career and his relationship with this institution with true love, even before SOLACI took its first<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/07/13/ricardo-lluberas-my-greatest-concern-is-that-the-next-generations-of-cardiologists-be-guided-by-ethical-principles/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Original Title: Paclitaxel-eluting balloon versus standard balloon angioplasty in in-stent restenosis of the superficial femoral and proximal popliteal artery: 1-year results of the PACUBA trial. Reference: Kinstner CM et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2016;9:1386-1392. Patients with symptomatic femoropopliteal in-stent restenosis (ISR) have better patency at one year if treated with drug eluting<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/07/13/deb-the-best-option-to-treat-superficial-femoral-isr/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Original Title: Long-Term Mortality in Patients With Radiation-Associated Coronary Artery Disease Treated with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Reference: Reed GW et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun;9(6). Courtesy of Dr. Brian Nazareth Donato. Radiotherapy is often used to treat malignant tumors; however, it is associated with adverse cardiovascular effects such as constrictive pericarditis, valve deterioration<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/07/04/radiotherapy-post-pci-cardiovascular-death-predictor/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Original Title: Incidence and Clinical Outcome of Stent Fractures on the Basis of 6555 Patients and 16482 Drug Eluting Stents From 4 Centers. Reference: Kan J et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jun 13;9(11):1115-23. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. Stent fracture (SF) has been associated with instent restenosis (ISR), stent thrombosis (ST) and repeat revascularization<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/06/28/stent-fracture-more-frequent-than-expected/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Now, you can read the Congress coverage in this newsletter. Go back to Rio for a few minutes! JUNE 15, 2016 COVERAGE Day 1 Opening day, a tribute to Dr. José Eduardo Sousa, the first to perform a coronary catheterization in Brazil, 50 years ago. Live cases and the Cleveland Clinic Symposium, “The year of<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/06/16/relive-solaci-sbhci16/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. There is no doubt cases of post out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) secondary to an ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (STEMI) should be submitted to a coronary angiogram and eventually an angioplasty (PCI). However, in patients with non ST elevation MI, the use of a similar invasive strategy is<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/05/16/coronary-angiogram-for-all-post-cardiac-arrest-patients/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Both ischemic postconditioning and deferred stenting showed no benefit in randomized studies conducted as part of the DANAMI 3 program. Both the DANAMI 3-DEFER and the DANAMI 3-iPOSTshowed slight improvements in ventricular function after intervention, but clinical end points saw no change. This does not mean that outcomes should be considered negative, only that the<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/04/08/danami-3-deferred-stenting-and-ischemic-postconditioning-have-no-benefit-in-primary-pci/" title="Read more" >...</a>
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<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2016/03/08/des-in-critical-ischemia-caused-by-infrapopliteal-lesions/" title="Read more" >...</a>