✔️ SCAI Session (Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions) in the SOLACI-CACI 2021 Congress. 👨🏫 Program: 00:03 – STEMI: Approach to Left Main Culprit – Dr. Timothy Henry. 15:38 – Gender Disparities in STEMI – Dr. Cindy Grines. 29:52 – Optimal DAPT Post Complex PCI – Dr. George Dangas. 47:01 – PCI or CABG for…
Post PCI Same Day Discharge: from Convenience to Need
Same day discharge following programed PCI with no complications has been a way for health centers to reduce costs that has resulted both safe and convenient for patients. With the arrival of the pandemic, reduced bed capacity, uninfected patient exposure and their potential contagion, and the always pressing need to reduce hospital costs have turned…
IVUS in Unprotected LMCA Angioplasty: Should We Change the Way We Use It?
Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Bifurcation lesions account for about 25% of all angioplasties and it is a challenge for which there is no single treatment strategy. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has proven its usefulness, improving outcomes by reducing mortality in unprotected left main coronary artery (LMCA) angioplasty. A new strategy consists in conducting an IVUS after…
ACC 2018 | COMBO: New Stent with Thin Struts and Pro-Healing Membrane
The new COMBO stent, comprised of thin struts plus a bioengineered layer of endothelial progenitor cells, is safe and effective at 1 year, according to this registry (the largest study on this device to date). This new stent could provide a better option for patients at high risk for bleeding who may not be able to…
What Is the Long-Term Outcome of Lesions Deferred Using FFR/iFR?
The presence of inducible ischemia is an essential prerequisite to obtain clinical benefits from revascularization through angioplasty. In that sense, the measurement of fractional flow reserve (FFR) is the gold standard as regards invasive methods assessing the functional significance of epicardial artery stenosis. As opposed to FFR, the measurement of the instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR)…
Diabetics’ Silent Ischemia Myth Busted
Diabetes mellitus patients generally present more diffuse coronary disease, faster lesion progression and higher risk of restenosis after PCI. The way these anatomical differences translate into in a different clinical practice, compared to non-diabetic patients, remains unclear. Prior studies comparing the frequency of angina symptoms in diabetic vs. non-diabetic patients have arrived to contradicting outcomes,…
Introducing the number one enemy of PCI: diabetes
About 25% of patients with multivessel disease undergoing myocardial revascularization surgery or PCI have diabetes. In this subgroup, the benefit of surgery in terms of mortality has long been shown: in the BARI study (Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation) patients undergoing PCI had close to double the mortality rate at 5 years compared to those…