STEMI and NSTEMI: Real-world Study in Mexico (RENASCA).

Introduction: Mexico is the country with the highest mortality due to acute myocardial infarction in adults older than 45 years old according to the OECD (28 vs. 7.5% of the average).

[Protocol for the care of acute myocardial infarction in emergency: Código infarto (The Infarction Code)].

Cardiovascular diseases are a major public health problem because of their they impact on more than 30% of all deaths worldwide. In our country and in the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) are also the leading cause of death and the main cause of lost of healthy life years due to disability or premature death. 50% of deaths are premature; most of them are due to acute myocardial infarct.

Treatment of seven patients with coarctation of the aorta treated using a Mexican-made platinum/iridium stent.

Background: Nowadays, stenting is the treatment of choice in patients >15 years of age with coarctation of the aorta without hypoplastic aortic isthmus. The platinum/iridium stent manufactured in Mexico may be an affordable alternative with the same benefits as the imported stent.

Methods: This is a series of cases in which we present the immediate results of the first seven patients with coarctation of the aorta treated with the platinum/iridium stent manufactured in Mexico.

[Clinical restenosis in diabetic patients treated with drug eluting stents for de novo lesions].

Unlabelled: We evaluated immediate and mid-term clinical and angiographic results in diabetic patients with percutaneous coronary intervention with deployment of drug eluting stents.

Methods: Between November of 2004 and June of 2005 percutaneous coronary interventions were performed 860 with the deployment of 112 drug eluting stents to 42 diabetic patients. The mean of stents was 2.

[Binary restenosis post-cutting balloon ptca before stenting].

Unlabelled: The goal of the study is to describe our experience in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with cutting balloon, evaluating the immediate and mid-term outcomes. The cutting balloon is a device used as a strategy to promote plaque rupture and to allow for its distribution.

Methods: This is a descriptive study to evaluate the clinical and angiographic restenosis rate (Binary restenosis).

[Long-term results of mitral percutaneous valvuloplasty with Inoue technique. Seven-years experience at the Cardiology Hospital of the National Medical Center "Siglo XXI", IMSS].

Unlabelled: Since the last decade, percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty with Inoue catheter is considered the treatment of choice for selected patients (mobile valve, no calcification and minimal subvalvular disease) with rheumatic mitral stenosis.

Objective: We present the seven-year follow-up experience of 456 patients treated with this technique in the catheter laboratory of the Cardiology Hospital in National Medical Center SXXI.

Material And Methods: It is a retrospective, transversal and observational study performed with data obtained from January 1994 and December 2000, with a follow-up of 58.

[Short-term results of rescue angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction and failure of thrombolysis treatment].

Unlabelled: The present study is aimed at describing the short-term assessment of clinical and angiographic results in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (RPTCA).

Methods: We reviewed retrospectively, from January 2001 to July 2004, the interventional procedures performed in patients with coronary heart disease. From a total of 3,258 patients we selected 32 (0.

[Results after placement of coronary stents in protected and not protected coronary trunk vs revascularization surgery].

Introduction: We analyzed the clinical and angiographic results, as well as the follow-up of patients with left coronary trunk disease (LCT) subjected to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with stenting and compared them with those subjected to myocardial revascularization surgery (MRV).

Material And Methods: From May 1998 to October 2003, 3,680 procedures were performed in 2,900 patients; 30 of them were selected to form group PTCA, 17 protected with stenting and 13 not protected, as they were not suited for surgery due to inappropriate bedding and rejection by the patient. Another group of 30 patients (MRV) with coronary bypass, average of 3.