Treatment of a giant coronary artery aneurysm: intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography findings.

A giant coronary aneurysm (GCA) partially thrombosed was demonstrated in a 77-year-old patient evaluated for an inferior myocardial infarction. Primary angioplasty (balloon only) with suboptimal result was initially obtained. After triple antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy (4 days), a new angiography was performed and a fusiform GCA was clearly delineated.

[Changes in percutaneous coronary intervention over the last 20 years: demographic, epidemiologic and clinical characteristics, techniques, and outcomes].

Introduction And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the changes observed in clinical practice in our interventional cardiology unit over the last 20 years.

Methods: Between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 2005, >or=17,204 percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasties (PTCAs) were performed at our center. They were analyzed in four periods of 5 years each.

[Advances in geriatric cardiology].

The continued aging of the population is an acknowledged fact. The proportion of individuals in the European Union aged over 65 years will reach 29.9% by 2050, almost double the present figure of 16.