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Systemic immunosuppressive therapy with oral Sirolimus after bare metal stent implantation: the missing alternative in the prevention of coronary restenosis after percutaneous coronary interventionsAlfredo E Rodriguez
Cardiovascular Research Center CECI, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Recent Pat Cardiovasc Drug Discov 3:201-8. 2008..The manuscript also reviews recent patents with new drugs, combination of drugs and DES designs which would improve safety and efficacy in the restenosis prevention after angioplasty...
Percutaneous coronary intervention with oral sirolimus and bare metal stents has comparable safety and efficacy to treatment with drug eluting stents, but with significant cost saving: long-term follow-up results from the randomised, controlled ORAR IAlfredo E Rodriguez
Cardiovascular Research Center CECI, Sanatorio Otamendi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EuroIntervention 5:255-64. 2009..How this regimen compares to drug eluting stents (DES) is unknown...
Oral rapamycin after coronary bare-metal stent implantation to prevent restenosis: the Prospective, Randomized Oral Rapamycin in Argentina (ORAR II) StudyAlfredo E Rodriguez
Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Am Coll Cardiol 47:1522-9. 2006..The purpose of this study was to assess the role of oral rapamycin in decreased restenosis after bare metal stent implantation...
Late loss of early benefit from drug-eluting stents when compared with bare-metal stents and coronary artery bypass surgery: 3 years follow-up of the ERACI III registryAlfredo E Rodriguez
Cardiovascular Research Center CECI Sanatorio Otamendi, Callao 1441, 4B 1024, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eur Heart J 28:2118-25. 2007..Furthermore, despite continued lower incidence of MACCE, initial advantage over BMS appeared to decrease with time. LST occurred more frequent in DES-treated patients...
Emerging drugs for coronary restenosis: the role of systemic oral agents the in stent eraAlfredo E Rodriguez
Otamendi Hospital, Post Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiac Unit, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Expert Opin Emerg Drugs 14:561-76. 2009....
Efficacy and safety of a double-coated paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent: the EUCATAX trialAlfredo E Rodriguez
Sanatorio Otamendi, Cardiac Unit, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 77:335-42. 2011..The aim of this study was the comparison of a new double-coated paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent with bare-metal stent (BMS) in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention...
Randomized comparison of cost-saving and effectiveness of oral rapamycin plus bare-metal stents with drug-eluting stents: three-year outcome from the randomized oral rapamycin in Argentina (ORAR) III trialAlfredo E Rodriguez
Cardiac Unit, Sanatorio Otamendi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 80:385-94. 2012..The purpose of this study was to assess the 3 years cost-effectiveness outcome of each strategy...
One-year outcome of patients with diabetes mellitus after percutaneous coronary intervention with three different revascularization strategies: results from the Diabetic Argentina Registry (DEAR)Juan Mieres
Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cardiovasc Revasc Med 13:265-71. 2012..This study was to assess the potential role of a paclitaxel-eluting balloon (PEB) treatment in patients with DM with coronary lesions compared to those treated either with bare-metal stents (BMS) or drug-eluting stents (DES)...
Early assessment of myocardial viability by the use of delayed enhancement computed tomography after primary percutaneous coronary interventionGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Otamendi Hospital, C1115AAB, Buenos Aires, Argentina
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2:1072-81. 2009....
New coating stent design for patients with high-risk coronary lesions for thrombotic events: early and long-term results of the Camouflage registryGilberto Perez
Cardiovascular Research Center CECI, Callao 1441 4B 1024, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Invasive Cardiol 21:378-82. 2009..We sought to determine in a clinical registry the acute and long-term clinical and angiographic outcomes of this BMS design in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) or who were unable to be on long-term clopidogrel therapy...
Chronic myocardial infarction detection and characterization during coronary artery calcium scoring acquisitionsGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Otamendi Hospital, Azcuenaga 870 C1115AAB, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 4:99-107. 2010..In addition to a limited capillary density, chronic myocardial infarction (MI) commonly contains a considerable amount of adipose tissue...
Multislice CT coronary angiography for the detection of burden, morphology and distribution of atherosclerotic plaques in the left main bifurcationGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 23:389-92. 2007..The angle of the left main bifurcation and the presence of plaques within the bifurcation are closely related...
Late stent thrombosis mimicking focal restenosis after sirolimus stent implantation: angiographic and intravascular ultrasound appraisalCarlos Fernandez-Pereira
Interventional Cardiology Department, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Invasive Cardiol 18:E294-7. 2006
Pilot study of oral rapamycin to prevent restenosis in patients undergoing coronary stent therapy: Argentina Single-Center Study (ORAR Trial)Alfredo E Rodriguez
Cardiac Unit, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. centroceci@ sion.com
J Invasive Cardiol 15:581-4. 2003..Higher therapeutic rapamycin blood levels were associated with a lower late loss and a trend toward a lower restenosis rate in de novo lesions...
Prevalence and characteristics of major and minor coronary artery anomalies in an adult population assessed by computed tomography coronary angiographyGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Otamendi Hospital, Azcuenaga 870 C1115AAB, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EuroIntervention 4:641-7. 2009..We sought to explore the prevalence and characteristics of major and minor CAAs using computed tomography coronary angiography (CCTA)...
Signal density of left ventricular myocardial segments and impact of beam hardening artifact: implications for myocardial perfusion assessment by multidetector CT coronary angiographyGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Otamendi Hospital, Azcuenaga 870 C1115AAB, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 26:345-54. 2010....
Stent selection in patients with myocardial infarction: drug eluting, biodegradable polymers or bare metal stents?Juan Mieres
Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiac Unit, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Recent Pat Cardiovasc Drug Discov 7:105-20. 2012..This paper reports and discusses new stent devices and adjunctive pharmacologic agents. It also mentions and describes the recent patents of devices invented to use in these complex lesions subsets...
Five-year follow-up of the Argentine randomized trial of coronary angioplasty with stenting versus coronary bypass surgery in patients with multiple vessel disease (ERACI II)Alfredo E Rodriguez
Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Am Coll Cardiol 46:582-8. 2005....
Guidance of percutaneous coronary interventions by multidetector row computed tomography coronary angiographyGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EuroIntervention 6:773-8. 2011..In the present article, we discuss the potential application of CTCA for the guidance of PCI, particularly of complex lesions such as chronic total occlusions (CTO) and bifurcations...
Modified scan protocol using multislice CT coronary angiography allows high quality acquisitions in obese patients: a case reportGaston A Rodriguez-Granillo
Departamento de Imágenes en Cardiología, Sanatorio Otamendi, Azcuenaga 870, C1115AAB Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 23:265-7. 2007..Providing this complex population an accurate, non-invasive imaging technique represents a major step-forward in cardiovascular imaging...
Latin American randomized trial of balloon angioplasty versus coronary stenting in diabetic patients with small vessel reference size (Latin American Small Vessel [LASMAL II] Trial): immediate and long-term resultsAlfredo E Rodriguez
Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Am Heart J 150:188. 2005..In summary, in diabetic patients with small coronary arteries, the use of a coronary PC coated stent as a primary device during percutaneous interventions was associated with better angiographic and long-term outcome...
Oral rapamycin in the treatment of diffuse proliferative in-stent restenosis in a patient with small reference vesselAlfredo E Rodriguez
Cardiac Unit, Otamendi Hospital, , Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Invasive Cardiol 15:515-8. 2003
Late stent thrombosis: the Damocle's sword of drug eluting stents?Alfredo E Rodriguez
Otamendi Hospital, Interventional Cardiology Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EuroIntervention 2:512-7. 2007....
