Publications by authors named "Rosa Sanchez-Aquino"

Article Synopsis
  • This article reports on the annual activities of the Interventional Cardiology Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology for 2022.
  • A total of 111 centers participated, revealing a 4.8% increase in diagnostic studies and a significant 22% rise in PCIs on the left main coronary artery, while the overall PCI numbers remained stable.
  • Key trends included a preference for the radial approach in 94.9% of cases, increased use of drug-eluting balloons and intracoronary imaging, and a continuous rise in noncoronary procedures, especially those related to heart valve and structural heart issues.
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Unlabelled: We present a rare case of a coronary pseudoaneurysm after a Bentall-Bono procedure. During a routine follow-up computed tomography scan, a pseudoaneurysm located between the aorta and the proximal portion of the right coronary artery was diagnosed. Contrast extravasation was observed with partial thrombosis of the pseudoaneurysm.

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Aim: To verify the usefulness of current recommended level of target exercise heart rate (HR) and of different HR-based methods for calculating target HR in patients with and without beta-blocker treatment.

Methods: We studied 53 patients not treated with beta-blocker and 159 patients on beta-blocker treatment. All patients underwent a maximal exercise test with gas analysis, and first ventilatory threshold (VT1 or aerobic threshold), second ventilatory threshold (VT2 or anaerobic threshold), time of exercise, maximum load, metabolic parameters, HR at rest (HRrest), HRpeak, HR at VT1 (HRVT1) and at VT2 (HRVT2), and 75, 80, and 85% of HRmax (HR75%, HR80%, HR85%) were calculated.

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The only clinical benefit of drug-eluting stents (DESs) over bare metal stents (BMSs) is a significant decrease in the need for new revascularization procedures. We evaluated whether DESs also decrease the incidence of myocardial infarction at midterm. We performed a meta-analysis from 25 randomized trials comparing commercially available DESs with BMSs that included 9,791 patients overall.

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Aims: Controversy exists about the clinical significance of in-stent late loss (ISLL) after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. We sought to clarify whether ISLL after DES implantation is related to a potential clinical impact.

Methods And Results: We included in a meta-regression analysis 21 trials (8641 patients) that randomly compared DES with bare-metal stents (BMS).

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Brugada syndrome is a clinical and electrocardiographic entity characterized by ST segment elevation in the right precordial ECG leads and sudden death or syncope secondary to malignant ventricular arrhythmia, and has a high recurrence rate. We report a patient with this syndrome who had received an automatic implantable defibrillator, who presented with multiple appropriate discharges because of recurrent episodes of ventricular fibrillation. All episodes were started by a premature ventricular beat of the same morphology and coupling interval.

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