Original Title: Treatment of Symptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis with a Novel Resheathable Supra-Annular Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve System. Reference: Ganesh Manoharan et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2015; 8(10):1359-1367. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. Despite the rapid growth and evolution of transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices (TAVR), vascular access complications, paravalvular leak, stroke...
Original Title: Aspiration thrombectomy prior to percutaneous coronary intervention in ST elevation myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Reference: Regina El Dib et al. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (2016) 16:121. Courtesy of Dr. Brian Nazareth Donato. Based on contradicting results obtained from different studies on the role of mechanical aspiration thrombectomy before PCI vs. PCI alone,...
Original Title: Percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion of the coronary artery with implantation of bioresorbable everolimus-eluting scaffolds. Poznan CTO-Absorb Pilot Registry. Reference: Maciej Lesiak, et al EuroIntervention 2016;12:e144-e151 Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is a real challenge and have a success rate of around 80% with trained...
Rio de Janeiro, June 10, 2016. Finally, a beautiful sunny day at the Wonderful City; despite this was the last day of Congress, activities went full steam ahead. In the morning, in the main room, the highlight was ACC@SOLACI – ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES, where Dr. Eric R. Bates and Dr. Neal Kleiman (both from USA)...
Rio de Janeiro, June 9, 2016. Another great day at Solaci/SBHCI 2016. Early this morning, the TCT/GI2@SOLACI session –Percutaneous Coronary Intervention– was conducted at Cristo Redentor room by Dr. Ajay Kirtane (USA), who talked about contemporary PCI. Following this event, Dr. Roxana Mehran (USA), delivered an excellent presentation on the evolution of stents and highlighted...
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: Stent Thrombosis with Drug Eluting Stents and Bioresorbable Scaffolds. Evidence from a Network Meta-Analysis of 147 trials. Reference: Kang S et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2016 doi 10.1016. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. When treating heart disease, drug eluting stents (DES) have become essential for PCI. Its main advantage lies on...
Original Title: Pharmacodynamic Effects of Switching from Prasugrel to Ticagrelor Results of the Prospective, Randomized SWAP-3 Study Reference: J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2016;() Epub ahead of print. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. At present, the pharmacodynamic effects of switching from prasugrel to ticagrelor in patients under dual APT remain unknown. The present prospective, randomized,...
Original Title: Impact of routine Fractional Flow Reserve on management decision and 1-year clinical outcome of ACS patients: Insights from the POST-IT and R3F Integrated Multicenter registriEs –Implementation of FFR in Routine Practice (PRIME-FFR). Presenter: Luís Raposo. Supported by a large body of evidence, the use of fractional flow reserve (FFR) has clearly been...