Luis Ortega-Paz

Luis Ortega-Paz

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist
University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville - Jacksonville, United States of America

Member of the Editorial Team, PCRonline Editorial Board

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Latest contributions

The main results of the phase 3 Reverse-it trial

02 Apr 2025

Luis Ortega-Paz interviews Deepak L. Bhatt about the results of the Phase 3 Reverse-it trial which he presented during the ACC.25 in Chicago.

Deepak L. Bhatt

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Deepak L. Bhatt
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Luis Ortega-Paz

PCRonline @ ACC.25 Scientific Sessions

07 Feb 2025

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology 2025 Scientific Sessions #ACC25

SEISMIC-HF I - Exploring non-invasive methods for monitoring intracardiac filling pressures

16 Nov 2024

Luis Ortega provides his take on the SEISMIC-HF I study presented by Liviu Klein at AHA 2024, in Chicago.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

AHA 2024: get the interventional cardiology perspective!

13 Nov 2024

Stay up to date with what is new and hot in interventional cardiology at #AHA24 in Chicago.

POPular PAUSE TAVI - Continuation or interruption of oral anticoagulation during TAVI?

02 Sep 2024

Luis Ortega-Paz provides his take on the POPular PAUSE TAVI trial presented by Dirk Jan van Ginkel at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2024: the interventional cardiology perspective!

26 Jul 2024

What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2024!

CSL112 (Apolipoprotein A-I) infusions and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (ApoA-I event reducing in ischemic syndromes II (AEGIS-II) Trial): Primary trial results

06 Apr 2024

Luis Ortega-Paz interviews C. Michael Gibson about the AEGIS-II primary trial results which he presented at ACC.24 in Atlanta.

ApoA-I post-heart attack showed no reduction in 90-day death or heart attack risk. However, exploratory analysis hints at benefits at one year, suggesting potential for longer-term efficacy.

C. Michael Gibson

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C. Michael Gibson
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Luis Ortega-Paz

PCRonline @ ACC.24 Scientific Sessions

22 Mar 2024

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology 2024 Scientific Sessions #ACC24

Dapagliflozin in acute myocardial infarction: Cardiometabolic benefits without impact on cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization: The jury is still out

14 Nov 2023

Luis Ortega Paz provides his take on DAPA-MI - A registry-based randomized trial of dapagliflozin in patient with acute myocardial infarction without diabetes, which was presented by Stefan James at AHA 2023 in Philadelphia.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

ORBITA-2 - Percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial

12 Nov 2023

Luis Ortega Paz interviews Rasha Al-Lamee and Christopher Rajkumar on the results of ORBITA-2 randomized placebo-controlled trial, which were presented at the AHA 2023 Congress in Philadelphia.

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Luis Ortega-Paz
Christopher Rajkumar

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Christopher Rajkumar
Rasha Al-Lamee

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Rasha Al-Lamee

AHA 2023: get the interventional cardiology perspective!

11 Nov 2023

Stay up to date with what is new and hot in interventional cardiology at #AHA23 in Philadelphia.

Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis and small aortic annuli: A randomized clinical trial (the VIVA Trial)

27 Oct 2023

Luis Ortega-Paz interviews Josep Rodés-Cabau on the results of the VIVA trial which he presented at TCT Congress 2023 in San Francisco.

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Luis Ortega-Paz
Josep Rodés-Cabau

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Josep Rodés-Cabau

PCRonline @ TCT 2023 - Get the international perspective!

17 Oct 2023

Thanks to the contribution of our team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science to be released at TCT 2023 - check out the list here!

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2023: the interventional cardiology perspective!

07 Aug 2023

What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2023!

FIRE trial: physiology-guided complete PCI in older MI patients

27 Aug 2023

Luis Ortega-Paz interviews Simone Biscaglia and Gianluca Campo about the FIRE trial.
Results showed elderly patients presenting with either STEMI or NSTEMI benefit from complete revascularization, reducing cardiovascular events risk at 1 year compared to culprit lesion-only PCI.

Published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Luis Ortega-Paz
Simone Biscaglia

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Simone Biscaglia
Gianluca Campo

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Gianluca Campo

Ultrasound-guided femoral access in patients with vascular closure devices: a prespecified analysis of the randomised UNIVERSAL trial

02 Mar 2023

Luis Ortega Paz interviews Prof. Sanjit Jolly who presented the prespecified analysis of the randomised UNIVERSAL trial at the CRT meeting which was held on February 25-28, 2023 in Washington, DC, USA.

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Luis Ortega-Paz
Sanjit Jolly

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Sanjit Jolly

PCRonline @ ACC.23/WCC Scientific Sessions

23 Feb 2023

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology / World Heart Federation 2023 Scientific Sessions #ACC23 #WCCardio.

PCRonline @ TCT 2022 - Get the international perspective!

12 Sep 2022

Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2022 - check out the list here!

COVID-PACT - Antithrombotic therapy in critically Ill COVID-19 patients

02 Sep 2022

Watch Luis Ortega Paz's interview with David Berg as part of the ESC 2022 Congress coverage, and find out more about the COVID-PACT trial, which aims to study antithrombotic strategies in critically ill COVID-19 patients. Learn more about the study design (population, primary endpoint, safety criteria...)...

David Berg

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David Berg
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Luis Ortega-Paz

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2022: the interventional cardiology perspective!

18 Jul 2022

Stay up to date with what was new and hot in interventional cardiology at the #ESCCongress 2022!

Abbreviated DAPT after complex PCI in high bleeding risk patients

18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022

Luis Ortega Paz interviews Pascal Vranckx on the background, main results and take-home messages from the sub-analysis of the MASTER DAPT study.

Abbreviated DAPT after complex PCI in high bleeding risk patients

Clinical decision based on coronary physiology: where do we stand in 2022?

17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022

Watch this EuroPCR 2022 session if you want to know the latest updates on integrating physiology into optimal revascularization in the cathlab: improvements in wire-based technologies, QFR from online or offline CAG, CT angio coupled with FFR, and physiology-guided vs angio-guided revascularization in ACS.

Clinical decision based on coronary physiology: where do we stand in 2022?

The FAME 3 Trial: Quality of Life After Fractional Flow Reserve-guided Stenting Compared With Coronary Bypass Surgery

03 Apr 2022

Luis Ortega-Paz interviews Frederik Zimmermann, first co-author of the FAME 3 Trial which he presented during the American College of Cardiology’s annual scientific sessions. The trial was published simultaneously in the journal Circulation.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

PCRonline @ ACC 2022 Scientific Sessions

29 Mar 2022

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology 2022 Scientific Sessions #ACC22.

SUGAR: A Randomized Trial of Amphilimus-eluting Stents and Zotarolimus-eluting Stents in Patients With Diabetes

04 Nov 2021

TCT 2021: Luis Ortega Paz interviews Rafael Romaguera, principal investigator of the SUGAR trial. SUGAR is the first powered trial to compare new generation DES in patients with diabetes, and also the first to include a broad population of patients with diabetes (all-comers design). It was...

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Luis Ortega-Paz
Rafael Romaguera

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Rafael Romaguera

PCRonline @ TCT 2021 - Get the international perspective!

03 Nov 2021

Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2021 - check out the list here!

MASTER-DAPT: “the MASTER of high-bleeding risk trials”

28 Aug 2021

Marco Valgimigli (Lugano, Switzerland) presented the results of the MASTER DAPT trial on Saturday, August 28, in a Hot Line session of the ESC Congress 2021. Luis G. Ortega-Paz provides his PICOT & SWOT analysis of this study.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

MASTER DAPT: dual antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting in high bleeding risk patients - interview with Marco Valgimigli

28 Aug 2021

ESC Congress 2021: Discover the interview given by Marco Valgimigli to Luis G. Ortega-Paz for PCRonline about the MASTER-DAPT trial to assess whether one month of dual antiplatelet therapy preserves the net and major adverse cardiovascular events.

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Luis Ortega-Paz
Marco Valgimigli

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Marco Valgimigli

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2021: the interventional cardiology perspective!

21 Jul 2021

Make sure you stay up to date with what's new and hot in interventional cardiology at this year's #ESCCongress!