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EuroPCR 2018 | Compare-Acute: FFR o angioplastia primaria en el seguimiento a 2 años de la revascularización completa

EuroPCR 2018 | Compare-Acute: FFR or Primary Angioplasty at a 2-Year Follow-Up After Complete Revascularization

EuroPCR 2018 | Compare-Acute: FFR or Primary Angioplasty at a 2-Year Follow-Up After Complete Revascularization

Recent studies in patients undergoing acute myocardial infarction showed that a complete revascularization strategy in an acute or subacute setting, whether it be guided through angiography (PRAMI, CvLPRIT) or fractional flow reserve (FFR) (PRIMULTI, COMPARE-ACUTE), improves the combined endpoint of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) when compared with treatment of the culprit artery only. Based

La revascularización incompleta no tiene el mismo significado en todos los pacientes

Incomplete Revascularization Does Not Mean the Same Thing for All Patients

Several studies show that patients with multivessel lesions who undergo angioplasty with incomplete revascularization experience more events, including higher mortality, than a cohort of patients who have undergone complete revascularization. In most cases, the analysis was dichotomic (complete vs. incomplete revascularization), but more recent studies show that there may be a gradient, a continuum, in

El estudio CULPRIT-SHOCK finalmente se publica en el NEJM y llega para cambiar las guías

The CULPRIT-SHOCK Study Is Finally Published in NEJM and It Is Bound to Change Guidelines

During SOLACI’s coverage of the TCT 2017 Congress in Denver, Colorado, we already mentioned some of the outcomes of this study that has arrived to revolutionize clinical practice, given the differences between its results and those of the classic SHOCK trial, which has marked for almost 20 years the treatment strategy for patients with infarction complicated

La importancia de saber qué conductos va a utilizar el cirujano para revascularizar a mi paciente

The Importance of Knowing Which Conduits Will a Surgeon Use for Revascularization

Whether a second arterial conduit improves outcomes in patients undergoing myocardial revascularization surgery is and will remain unclear until the 10-year results of the ART (Arterial Revascularization Trial) are published. Consequently, arterial conduits other than the left internal thoracic artery are seldom used in daily practice. Using a database including 126 non-federal hospitals in California, researchers

DEFINE FLAIR and IFR SWEDEHEART: Safety in Revascularization Based on FFR and iFR in Both Stable and ACS Patients

SYNTAX II: Better Stents, IVUS, FFR, or a Combination of All of Them to Catch Up with Surgery

In patients with 3-vessel disease, surgery obtained better outcomes than angioplasty, according to results from the SYNTAX and FREEDOM trials, which used first-generation drug-eluting stents. Even in the BEST trial, which used new-generation stents, surgery still offered far better outcomes. Nobody is surprised by the fact that, whenever angioplasty evolves due to a new device

COMPARE-ACUTE: FFR para guiar la revascularización de vasos no culpables en la angioplastia primaria

COMPARE-ACUTE: FFR-Guided Non-Culprit Vessel Revascularization in Primary Angioplasty

Courtesy of the SBHCI. About 50% of patients admitted with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction also present lesions in another vessel. Whether to treat these or not, and the optimal moment to treat non-culprit infarction-related vessels are still controversial issues.   The COMPARE-ACUTE study was recently published and showed that fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided complete

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Rechanneling a CTO in a Non-Infarct-Related Artery After Primary PCI: Yes or No?

Between 10% and 15% of patients admitted with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction present concurrent coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) in a non-infarct-related artery, which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.   The EXPLORE (Evaluating Xience and Left Ventricular Function in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Occlusions After ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) trial evaluated whether patients admitted

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Left main PCI: Requiem for the Syntax score?

Original Title: Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes After Everolimus-Eluting Stenting for Unprotected Left Main Disease and High Anatomic Coronary Complexity. Reference: JACC Cardiovascular Interventions. Doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.02.016. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia.   In patients with unprotected left main disease (ULMD) associated to complex coronary anatomy, choosing a revascularization strategy can be challenging. Current guidelines recommend surgery for

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The Effect of Age in Patients with Triple Vessel CAD Undergoing PCI vs. Surgery

Original Title: Effects of Age and Sex on Clinical Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Relative to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Triple Vessel Coronary Artery Disease. Reference: KyoheiYamaji et al. Circulation. 2016 Mar 23. [Epub ahead of print].   Sex and age are factors that are often considered in the daily practice to decide

FAME at 5 years: FFR Should Guide All Multivessel PCIs

Though the benefit of FFR (fractional flow reserve) over angiography is statistically important only over the first 2 years, this pattern is maintained at long term according to FAME 5 year follow up, presented at the ECS and simultaneously published in The Lancet. Between the second and fifth year, the number of patients at risk

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