Academic and professional profile of cardiology fellowship graduates of National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chávez from 2000 to 2015.

Background: The Ignacio Chávez National Institute of Cardiology (NIC) has positioned itself as an international benchmark in cardiovascular medical education, standing out for its high academic standards and human quality.

Objective: This study aims to identify the employment and academic profile of cardiology fellowship graduates from the National Institute of Cardiology of Mexico (NIC).

Methods: A cross-sectional and retrospective study was conducted, involving 473 graduates from the period 2000-2015.

Rupture of sinus of Valsalva aneurysm to the right atrium resolved with interventionism.

We present a case of a ruptured right sinus of Valsalva aneurysm to the right atrium that developed global heart failure over the course of three months, and which was completely resolved through cardiac catheterism, placing an occlusive device at the site of the fistula. Its ethology is discussed, as well as the guidelines for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Flipped learning as an educational model in a cardiology residency program.

Introduction: Flipped learning (FL) is a model which allows students to adjust their study rhythm by taking advantage of class time to apply their knowledge. Although FL meets many of the needs of the traditional lecture-based model and the exclusively virtual model, its effectiveness in medical residency programs has not been thoroughly studied. Our study evaluates the efficacy of an FL model in a cardiology residency program based on the satisfaction and academic performance of the participants.

The rescue of medical education crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background And Objective: The ravages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have affected medical education by losing the tutorial teaching that we carried out in out Institution.

Method: The strategies implemented through information and communication technologies are described in this article.

Results: With the strategies carried out, it was possible to continue with all the theoretical education virtually at a distance, including the daily hospital rounds, the presentation of clinical cases, the remote analysis of laboratory and cabinet methods, as well as the teaching of the physical examination and the acquisition of diagnostic aid methods.

Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 and Osteopontin Gene Expression in Epicardial Adipose Tissue from Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Is Associated with the Presence of Calcified Atherosclerotic Plaques.

Purpose: It has been proposed that the cardiovascular effects of obesity are related to epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), which seems to play an active role on the development and calcification of atherosclerotic plaques, but the mechanisms are still unknown. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine whether the EAT expresses the genes of calcifying factors and whether such expression is associated with the body mass index (BMI) and with the presence of coronary artery calcium (CAC) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Patients And Methods: Forty-three patients with CAD were enrolled specifically for this study, and their CAC score and EAT volume were determined by computed tomography.

Ten-year clinical and echocardiographic follow-up of patients undergoing percutaneous mitral commissurotomy with Inoue balloon.

Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC) has emerged as an effective nonsurgical technique for the treatment of patients with symptomatic mitral stenosis. This report highlights the immediate and long-term follow-up results of this procedure in an unselected cohort of patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis from a single center. PMC with Inoue balloon was performed in 70 patients in a 2-year period (1993-1994).

[Secondary prevention in patients treated with coronary intervention].

Percutaneous coronary interventions have been growing rapidly in recent years for their favorable outcome. Coronary artery disease, however, is caused by a diffuse atherosclerotic process involving the whole coronary artery tree and commonly other vascular territories. In recent years, evidence has accumulated that several classes of secondary preventive drugs are clinically effective.

[Pacemaker stimulation in dilated and hypertrophic myocardiopathies: should its use be stratified?].

New indications for permanent cardiac pacing have been developed in recent years, with numerous studies demonstrating improved clinical outcomes in many disorders. These techniques have been used in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy, and many physiological bases and clinical studies justify their application. In dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure with intraventricular conduction delay, abnormal electrical depolarization of the heart results in mechanical asynchrony of the ventricles.

The impact of right atrial ischemia on inferior myocardial infarction with extension to right ventricle: transesophageal echocardiographic examination.

Background: The role of the right atrium in adaptation to the hemodynamic changes produced by extension of myocardial infarction (MI) of the left ventricular inferior wall to the right ventricle is fundamental.

Hypothesis: The aim of this study was analyze a group of patients with MI with extension of right chambers, and particularly right atrial alterations, by transesophageal echocardiography and to correlate it with clinical and angiographic variables.

Methods: Thirty patients with right ventricular (RV) MI involving obstruction of the right coronary artery without stenosis of the left coronary artery were included; 18 underwent early reperfusion.

Treatment of a giant coronary aneurysm with a novel technique: scaffolding (tunnel) stenting to support PTFE-covered stents: insights from intravascular ultrasound.

This report describes a patient with progressive angina and a giant coronary aneurysm in the right coronary artery. Percutaneous treatment was performed using a novel technique consisting of implantation of a long stent that provided scaffolding or bridge for the subsequent implantation of two polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stents. Complete closure of the aneurysm was successfully achieved.