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Stable CAD (Coronary artery disease)

Find all the latest content on stable coronary artery disease (stable CAD) published on this website.

A complex and changing disease state requiring wide expertise, stable CAD can involve a diverse range of underlying chronic or evolutionary stages involving full use of all available tools, devices and techniques like those for invasive imaging and functional assessment. Taking into account underlying comorbidities such as diabetes is critical. Advances in imaging techniques, as well as the use of adjunctive pharmacotherapy, vascular access or invasive interventions such as bypass surgery, are important, as are understanding bleeding risks, all of which can be found here…

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How to treat ostial lesions with Szabo’s technique?

28 May 2020

Szabo’s technique, also known as “tail-wire” technique, is one of the few specific ostial intervention techniques that can be helpful to achieve precise coverage of the ostium without excessive protrusion into the aorta or the respective main vessel... Discover the tips and solutions proposed by Felix...

Felix Damas De Los Santos

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Felix Damas De Los Santos
Julio I. Farjat Pasos

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Julio I. Farjat Pasos
Marco A. Peña Cabral

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Marco A. Peña Cabral
Eduardo A. Arias Sánchez

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Eduardo Arias
My toolkit: How to treat ostial lesions with Szabo’s technique?

Angiography-based quantitative flow reserve in coronary vasospastic angina

03 Jun 2020

A 60-year-old woman with a history of cardiac arrest associated with MINOCA (myocardial infarction with no coronary artery disease) event in the territory of the left main artery, underwent coronary angiography for recurrent episodes of chest pain leading to 4 hospitalizations in the last 2 years...

Image in cardiology: QFR in vasospastic angina

Coronary sinus reducer for microvascular angina

28 Feb 2020

A 61-year-old man with a history of 2-vessel coronary artery stenting, hypertension and type-2 diabetes mellitus was admitted 5 times within September 2017 and November 2018 for recurrent angina CCS class III-IV refractory to therapy with nitrates, b-blockers and ranolazine in maximally tolerated doses...

Coronary sinus reducer for microvascular angina

2nd edition of the Percutaneous Cardiac Interventions Textbook

09 Oct 2019

Editors M. Sabaté and S. Brugaletta share how the additional live cases, videos and media content provide crystal clear tips and tricks on new procedures.

2nd edition of the Tips and Tricks of new techniques beyond stenting

Editor's picks: impactful articles in interventional cardiology

01 Oct 2019

Struggling to keep up with the mass of scientific information in interventional cardiology? On this page you will find a selection of recent articles published in major journals in the field - use it to guide your reading!

What's hot in interventional cardiology?

Does metallic stent ablation by rotational atherectomy influence on the coronary microcirculation?

09 Jul 2019

An 80-year-old man underwent percutaneous coronary intervention with a bare-metal stent for severe stenosis at proximal left anterior descending coronary artery 13 years ago. In-stent restenosis was treated by a drug-eluting stent 1 year later...

Influence of stent ablation on the coronary microcirculation