Interventional Cardiology

This review examines the evidence on long-term prognosis, state-of-the-art assessment and treatment strategies, and the overwhelming need for standardisation of diagnostic pathways in this patient population.

This study compared sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) with everolimus-eluting stents (EES) in coronary artery disease patients.

The symposium was a practical, case-based discussion in which four panellists each presented a real and challenging case regarding dual antiplatelet…

This didactic procedure concerns a 67 years old male with history of coronary artery disease presenting unstable angina and diffusely calcified and…

This 18 minutes didactic recorded procedure concerns a 68 years male with coronary insufficiency and carotid lesions. He presents an occluded left…

Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) are detected incidentally in ˜20% of patients undergoing coronary angiography and are often associated with…

The aim of fetal pericardiocentesis is to reduce the risk of pulmonary hypoplasia, the development of cardiac tamponade and fetal hydrops, and in some cases to allow fetal lung maturity, improving fetal extraction with a better haemodynamic and respiratory condition.

Echocardiography has an important role in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients who require transcatheter valvular interventions.