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Do you use a treadmill test or more?
15 October 2014 2,426 4 View
I use always clopidogrel in these patients.
22 July 2014 7,213 19 View
I have 4 similar cases in which chest pain persisted at effort and small ischemic area was shown by scintilography. I made closure of the branches using coil embolization with successful...
10 June 2014 1,687 12 View
In severe cases I use the association of both drugs. In cases of moderate or mild hypertrophy I prefer beta blockers, if there isn't contraindications.
26 May 2014 3,290 21 View
Do you have experience with stent implantation?
21 April 2014 5,383 5 View
In general the patients are elderly people. I prefer to use rivaroxaban, but the risk of bleeding is high. Do you have other choice?
02 April 2014 363 4 View
I do not always perform the post-dilatation. Only in very proximal obstructions or some luminal reduction is visible after treatment.
05 March 2014 7,091 7 View
I think that percutaneous closure in these case is safe and easy. I perform the closure.
03 September 2013 2,938 15 View
I think that after prostraglandin started to sustain the duct patent, the stent implantation in the arterial duct in a few days-old baby with bad clinical status and low weight is a good conduct.
08 August 2013 7,996 4 View
I think that only closure of the aortic side of tunnel allows progressive aortic regurgitation. I think that it is necessary for the closure of both sides of the tunnel and reinforce the...
05 June 2013 6,475 0 View
LV diastolic diameter= 63 mm , LA diameter= 64 , EF= 71% , Chronic Atrial Fibrilation
24 May 2013 5,446 12 View
Many doctors use this treatment, although I don't know guidelines with this indication.
24 May 2013 1,901 1 View
I don´t use this drugs association.
18 May 2013 2,571 0 View
Patient is under 70 years and normal weight. In general I use Clopidogrel, although the anti-platelet effect of Prasugrel is faster and bigger.
10 May 2013 7,396 5 View
Although there are many articles showing the risk of use statins in primary prevention of coronary heart disease, many doctors prescribe statins for asymptomatic people with normal total...
29 April 2013 8,292 14 View
Patient is 52 years of age and was submited to coronary arteriography and left main coronary dissection. Before the event was visible, significative stenoses in LAD and left circunflex arteries. I...
21 April 2013 5,855 29 View
Some interventional cardiologists have mentioned patients with this condition frequently. In our Institute the same occurs.
29 March 2013 2,859 2 View
I don't make the closure in these cases.
09 January 2013 929 8 View
There are many doctor using this conduct.
06 January 2013 2,373 1 View
Many complex congenital heart disease are very rare. Some procedures are rarely performed. If they are no reported, many patients can be incorrect diagnosis or treatment. Increase in the number...
16 November 2012 4,372 3 View
If there are akinetic muscle areas, the normal areas can be normal contratility and the ventricle can be dilated and with systolic global dysfuntion.
13 November 2012 9,693 2 View
Physical exercise improves life quality, but in my experience it has a small effect for increase the HDL.
29 October 2012 1,580 5 View
A sixty year-old-woman was submitted to replacement of tricuspid valve 24 years ago, due to infective endocarditis in a previous normal heart. During active endocarditis she had rupture of cuspide...
19 October 2012 1,182 8 View
I didn't see any patient that is cured without surgery associated with antifungal therapy.
24 September 2012 8,629 1 View
For many years, every patient with PDA was treated by surgery or percutaneous closure. The risk of Endocarditis was the reason to closure minimal PDA. More recently the easy and safe closure by...
18 September 2012 4,488 0 View
In Brazil young people have a high score. For this reason, interventional cardiologists, including me, perform percutaneous mitral valvoplasty with satsfactory results that allow to postpone...
15 September 2012 3,140 8 View
I consider EDS indispensable in diabetic patients independent of the diameter of coronary artery.
13 September 2012 9,168 7 View
I had patients in this condition wich had good responde and cure with medical therapy only. In many centers early surgery is recommended.
10 September 2012 7,914 22 View
In large defects it is not always possible to measure the extended diameter because the septal border doesn´t hold the large balloon. In these case I use a prosthesis 30% bigger than the...
03 September 2012 1,848 15 View
