FFR para guiar la revascularización en SCA

FFR to Predict CABG Result: All Benefits in a Population Much Too Pure?

Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) anastomosed to one vessel with normal or nearly normal fractional flow reserve (FFR) have poorer graft patency at one year compared against anastomosed grafts to vessels with functionally significant lesions shown by FFR. However, the recent study FARGO (Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography Randomization for Graft Optimization) did not show<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/08/16/ffr-to-predict-cabg-result-all-benefits-in-a-population-much-too-pure/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Efectos de la radiación cerebral en Cardiólogos Intervencionistas

Heart and Brain: Risk Factors, Atrial Fibrillation and Dementia

For decades, physiologists have known what cardiologists often forget: heart and brain communicate intensely in a healthy person, and in a wide range of cardiovascular diseases they could damage one another. Multiple actions and immediate reactions in the brain adequately adapt heart function to bodily needs, such as anxiety and frustration, which might impair adequate<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/08/15/heart-and-brain-risk-factors-atrial-fibrillation-and-dementia/" title="Read more" >...</a>

La anticoagulación jugando un papel controvertido en el TAVI

PCI and Anticoagulation: What is the best strategy?

Most patients with atrial fibrillation require anticoagulation to reduce the risk of stroke or systemic embolization. Today, this is achieved with the new direct oral anticoagulants, which present lower intracranial bleeding risk compared against the old vitamin K antagonists. On the other hand, approximately between 5% to 10% of patients receiving PCI also present atrial<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/08/14/pci-and-anticoagulation-what-is-the-best-strategy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Lo más leído de Junio en cardiología intervencionista

The Most Read Articles in Interventional Cardiology in SOLACI

1- What to Do with Blood Pressure Levels Between 130/80 and 139/89 mmHg The decision to be made with a treatment-free patient with systolic blood pressure over 160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure over 100 mmHg is an easy one. All guidelines agree: treatment should be started immediately alongside lifestyle changes. Read also HERE 2- Low-Risk<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/07/02/the-most-read-articles-in-interventional-cardiology-in-solaci/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Endocarditis y TAVI, una complicación rara pero devastadora

Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis and TAVR: though Rare, Devastating

On the bright side, the incidence of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) post TAVR is not higher than post SAVR, according to this study recently presented at EuroPCR 2019, held in Paris. There is plenty of evidence describing PVE incidence, prognosis, risk factors, etc. after surgical valve replacement surgery (SAVR). However, we know little about the<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/06/23/prosthetic-valve-endocarditis-and-tavr-though-rare-devastating/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Antianginal Medication Before and After Rechanneling

Escalation or de-escalation of antianginal medication was less common than treatment continuation without change after a chronic total occlusion rechanneling, with little variation according to the site. Further research is needed to identify patients who would benefit (or not) from these drugs and to develop strategies to adjust treatment during follow-up. This work basically tells<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/06/20/antianginal-medication-before-and-after-rechanneling/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Doble antiagregación: menos es más en añosos.

Cardiovascular Risk, Dual Antiplatelet Therapy, and Age. What Should We Know?

Non-adherence to dual antiplatelet therapy varies with age and patients older than 75 years old are those who discontinue treatment most frequently. However, this characteristic in elderly patients was not associated with more cardiovascular events. Treatment compliance protected patients younger than 75 years old from events, while there was increased cardiovascular risk among this population<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/06/12/cardiovascular-risk-dual-antiplatelet-therapy-and-age-what-should-we-know/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Estenosis aórtica severa asintomática en añosos: ¿cuándo intervenir?

Safe for 80-Year-Olds. Should Nonagenarians be Withheld from TAVR?

According to this large global registry, mortality after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is twice as high in nonagenarians as against the “younger” group (90 patients. Additionally, risk scores cannot be trusted given that on the one hand they were designed for patients with planned surgery, and on the other hand, they included few patients<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/06/11/safe-for-80-year-olds-should-nonagenarians-be-withheld-from-tavr/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Es posible realizar MitraClip sin anestesia general

Outpatient Rhythm Monitoring After TAVR Could Save Us from Some Pacemakers?

Delayed high-grade block after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) goes unnoticed in patients undergoing TAVR without prior conduction disorders because, most times, it takes place during hospitalization or immediately after the procedure. Right bundle branch block is a risk factor, but it has poor sensitivity for the prediction of high-grade blocks, and there may be<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/06/10/outpatient-rhythm-monitoring-after-tavr-could-save-us-from-some-pacemakers/" title="Read more" >...</a>

EuroPCR 2019 | Ultimo meta-análisis de TAVI, el espectro de tratamiento alcanza a todos los pacientes

EuroPCR 2019 | Most Recent TAVR Meta-Analysis: The Spectrum of Treatment Reaches All Patients

This new meta-analysis combines all randomized transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) vs. surgical aortic valve replacement trials and expands the scope of TAVR. Evidence across the range of risk studied supports a paradigm shift in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. The clinical superiority of TAVR compared with surgery has been demonstrated across the spectrum<a href="https://solaci.org/en/2019/05/30/europcr-2019-most-recent-tavr-meta-analysis-the-spectrum-of-treatment-reaches-all-patients/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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