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Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

Submissions from 2021 2021

The Miami Heart Study (MiHeart) at Baptist Health South Florida, A Prospective Study of Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease and Emerging Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Asymptomatic Young and Middle-Aged Adults: The Miami Heart Study: Rationale and Design, Jack Ziffer, Shozab Ali, Lara Arias, Anshul Saxena, Theodore Feldman, Ricardo Cury, and Jonathan Fialkow

Submissions from 2020 2020

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Chest Pain-Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome, Juan Batlle

Bicaval vs biatrial anastomosis techniques in orthotopic heart transplantation: An updated analysis of the UNOS database, Sandra Chaparro

Effects of Bromocriptine in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Sandra Chaparro

Evaluating the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on in-hospital outcomes following left ventricular assist device implantation, Sandra Chaparro

Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on In-hospital Outcomes of Patients with Decompensated Heart Failure: Analysis of the Nis Database, Sandra Chaparro

Impact of Tricuspid Valve Repair at the Time of Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation on In-hospital Mortality and Outcomes: Insight from the NIS Database, Sandra Chaparro

Poor Functional Status Prior to Bridge-to-transplant Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy is not Associated with Reduced Survival in Heart Transplant Recipients: Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Registry, Sandra Chaparro

The utility of CardioMEMS in left ventricular assist device patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, Sandra Chaparro

A Boosted Ensemble Algorithm for Determination of Plaque Stability in High-Risk Patients on Coronary CTA, Ricardo Cury

Adoption of coronary artery disease - Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) and observed impact on medical therapy and systolic blood pressure control, Ricardo Cury

Association of High-Density Calcified 1K Plaque With Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome, Ricardo Cury

Clinical risk factors and atherosclerotic plaque extent to define risk for major events in patients without obstructive coronary artery disease: the long-term coronary computed tomography angiography CONFIRM registry, Ricardo Cury

Coronary atherosclerosis scoring with semiquantitative CCTA risk scores for prediction of major adverse cardiac events: Propensity score-based analysis of diabetic and non-diabetic patients, Ricardo Cury

Increased long-term mortality in women with high left ventricular ejection fraction: data from the CONFIRM (COronary CT Angiography EvaluatioN For Clinical Outcomes: An InteRnational Multicenter) long-term registry, Ricardo Cury

Machine learning of clinical variables and coronary artery calcium scoring for the prediction of obstructive coronary artery disease on coronary computed tomography angiography: analysis from the CONFIRM registry, Ricardo Cury

Non-obstructive high-risk plaques increase the risk of future culprit lesions comparable to obstructive plaques without high-risk features: the ICONIC study, Ricardo Cury

Prognostic significance of subtle coronary calcification in patients with zero coronary artery calcium score: From the CONFIRM registry, Ricardo Cury

Standardized reporting systems for computed tomography coronary angiography and calcium scoring: A real-world validation of CAD-RADS and CAC-DRS in patients with stable chest pain, Ricardo Cury

Ethmoidal dural arteriovenous fistulas: endovascular transvenous embolization technique, Guilherme Dabus

Influence of thrombectomy volume on non-physician staff burnout and attrition in neurointerventional teams, Guilherme Dabus

Neuroendovascular clinical trials disruptions due to COVID-19. Potential future challenges and opportunities, Guilherme Dabus

Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery Recommendations for the Care of Emergent Neurointerventional Patients in the Setting of COVID-19, Guilherme Dabus

The Hydrogel Endovascular Aneurysm Treatment Trial (HEAT): A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Second-Generation Hydrogel Coil, Guilherme Dabus

The professional and personal impact of the coronavirus pandemic on US neurointerventional practices: a nationwide survey, Guilherme Dabus

Transarterial and transvenous access for neurointerventional surgery: report of the SNIS Standards and Guidelines Committee, Guilherme Dabus

Transcirculation Approach for Endovascular Embolization of Intracranial Aneurysms, Arteriovenous Malformations, and Dural Fistulas: A Multicenter Study, Guilherme Dabus

Transcirculation Approach for Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Multicenter Study and Review of the Literature, Guilherme Dabus

Abstract O-019 Safety and efficacy of cangrelor use in neurovascular intervention: a multicenter experience, Guilherme Dabus and Italo Linfante

First Pass Effect in Patients Treated With the Trevo Stent-Retriever: A TRACK Registry Study Analysis, Guilherme Dabus and Italo Linfante

Angiography and embolization of meningiomas, Guilherme Dabus, Italo Linfante, and Michael McDermott

First responder cardiac health amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Eli Friedman

Early clinical experience with a touchless image navigation interface for the endovascular suite, Ripal Gandhi

Combined stress myocardial CT perfusion and coronary CT angiography as a feasible strategy among patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department, Gowtham Grandhi, Juan Batlle, Christopher Maroules, Warren Janowitz, Constantino Pena, Jack Ziffer, Robson Macedo, and Ricardo Cury

Factors influencing credentialing of interventionists in the CREST-2 trial, Barry Katzen and Guilherme Dabus

"How We Do It" - A Practical Approach to Percutaneous Adrenal Ablation Techniques, Yilun Koethe, Brian Schiro, Constantino Pena, and Ripal Gandhi

Radiation therapy alone versus radiation therapy plus radiofrequency ablation/vertebral augmentation for spine metastasis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Rupesh Kotecha, Brian Schiro, Justin Sporrer, Muni Rubens, Haley Appel, Kathleen Calienes, Belinda Boulanger, Marietsy Pujol, Deborah Suarez, Ashley Pena, Alex Kudryashev, and Minesh Mehta

An Appraisal of the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke, Italo Linfante

An international multicenter retrospective study to survey the landscape of thrombectomy in the treatment of anterior circulation acute ischemic stroke: outcomes with respect to age, Italo Linfante

COVID-19 and neurointerventional service worldwide: a survey of the European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT), the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), the Sociedad Iberolatinoamericana de Neuroradiologia Diagnostica y Terapeutica (SILAN), the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN), and the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (WFITN), Italo Linfante

Diagnostic reliability of the Berlin classification for complex MCA aneurysms-usability in a series of only giant aneurysms, Italo Linfante

Longer 6-mm Diameter Stent Retrievers Are Effective for Achieving Higher First Pass Success With Fibrin-Rich Clots, Italo Linfante

Mechanical Thrombectomy in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergency Preparedness for Neuroscience Teams: A Guidance Statement From the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Italo Linfante

Mechanical Thrombectomy of COVID-19 positive acute ischemic stroke patient: a case report and call for preparedness, Italo Linfante

Endovascular Treatment of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms, Italo Linfante, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Affiliates, Amy Starosciak, and Guilherme Dabus

Irreversible Electroporation for Hepatic Tumors: Protocol Standardization Using the Modified Delphi Technique, Govindarajan Narayanan

Emerging Ablative and Transarterial Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer, Govindarajan Narayanan, Antonio Ucar, Ripal Gandhi, Arian Nasiri, Prasuna Inampudi, and Horacio Asbun

Quality Improvement Project: Improving Interventional Radiology Response Times for Level I Trauma Embolization, Andrew Niekamp

The Emerging Integrated IR Residency: Analysis Based on 2017 and 2018 Medical Student Surveys, Andrew Niekamp

Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts Reduce Variceal Bleeding and Improve Survival in Patients with Cirrhosis: A Population-Based Analysis, Andrew Niekamp

Digital Subtraction Angiography Prior to an Amputation for Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI): An Expert Recommendation Statement From the CLI Global Society to Optimize Limb Salvage, Constantino Pena and Barry Katzen

Is transradial access the way to go to prevent post PCI readmission?, Ramon Quesada

Stroke Risk, phenotypes, and death in COVID-19: Systematic review and newly reported cases, Daniel Vela Duarte and Italo Linfante

Submissions from 2019 2019

Study protocol for a telephone-based smoking cessation randomized controlled trial in the lung cancer screening setting: The lung screening, tobacco, and health trial, Juan Batlle

Re: Evaluation of the Statewide Variability in the Current Role of Different Specialties in Lower Extremity Endovascular Revascularization for Medicare Beneficiaries, James Benenati

A cross-sectional survey of coronary plaque composition in individuals on non-statin lipid lowering drug therapies and undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography, Ricardo Cury

Adoption of the Coronary Artery Disease-reporting and Data System: Reduced Downstream Testing and Cardiology Referral Rates in Patients with Non-obstructive Coronary Artery Disease, Ricardo Cury

Long-term prognostic utility of computed tomography coronary angiography in older populations, Ricardo Cury

Point of Care Clinical Risk Score to Improve the Negative Diagnostic Utility of an Agatston Score of Zero: Averting the Need for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography, Ricardo Cury

Prognostic value of chronic total occlusions detected on coronary computed tomographic angiography, Ricardo Cury

Risk Reclassification With Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography-Visualized Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease According to 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Guidelines (from the Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes : An International Multicenter Registry [CONFIRM]), Ricardo Cury

The Predictive Value of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring for Major Adverse Cardiac Events According to Renal Function (from the Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes: An International Multicenter [CONFIRM] Registry), Ricardo Cury

Safety and efficacy of intracranial aneurysm embolization using the "combined remodeling technique": low-profile stents delivered through double lumen balloons: a multicenter experience, Guilherme Dabus

Quality Assurance for Carotid Stenting in the CREST-2 Registry, Guilherme Dabus and Barry Katzen

A survey of burnout and professional satisfaction among United States neurointerventionalists, Guilherme Dabus and Italo Linfante

Effect of balloon guide catheter on clinical outcomes and reperfusion in Trevo thrombectomy, Guilherme Dabus and Italo Linfante

Multicenter Study of Pipeline Flex for Intracranial Aneurysms, Guilherme Dabus and Italo Linfante

Introduction to Issue on Yttrium-90 Radioembolization, Ripal Gandhi

Patient Selection and Clinical Outcomes of Y90 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Ripal Gandhi

Retrospective review of ticagrelor and clopidogrel use in adult patients receiving dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention in a community hospital, Jessica Hernandez, Laura Neubauer, Radhan Gopalani, Heidi Clarke, and Marcus St. John

Propensity Score-Adjusted Comparison of Long-Term Outcomes Among Revascularization Strategies for Critical Limb Ischemia, Barry Katzen

Snapshot of current carotid artery stenting practice and accreditation in the USA, Barry Katzen

Abstract WP391: Survey of Neurology Post-Graduate Trainees' Exposure to Interventional Neurology: Report From the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology Education Committee, Italo Linfante

A joint statement from the Neurointerventional Societies: our position on operator experience and training for stroke thrombectomy, Italo Linfante

Aspiration thrombectomy versus stent retriever thrombectomy as first-line approach for large vessel occlusion (COMPASS): a multicentre, randomised, open label, blinded outcome, non-inferiority trial, Italo Linfante

Impact of Balloon Guide Catheter Use on Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes in the STRATIS Stroke Thrombectomy Registry, Italo Linfante

'Real-world' comparison of first-line direct aspiration and stent retriever mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke in the anterior circulation: a multicenter international retrospective study, Italo Linfante

Standards of Practice in Acute Ischemic Stroke Intervention International Recommendations, Italo Linfante

Standards of practice in acute ischemic stroke intervention: International recommendations, Italo Linfante

Intraarterial Thrombolysis as Rescue Therapy for Large Vessel Occlusions, Italo Linfante and Guilherme Dabus

Computed Tomography of Acquired Aortic Diseases, Xhorlina Marko and Constantino Pena

Radiology and Political Advocacy: Characterizing Radiology Political Action Committee Donors, Alexander Misono

Comparison of specialties participating in the BEST-CLI trial to specialists treating peripheral arterial disease nationally, Constantino Pena

Safety of Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty for Femoropopliteal Peripheral Artery Disease, Constantino Pena

Needle track seeding in renal mass biopsies, Andrew Renshaw, Alex Powell, Jorge Caso, and Edwin Gould

Abstract No. 436 Accuracy of simple visual estimation in assessment of hepatic volumes and tumor infiltration in dose calculation for Yttrium-90 radioembolization, Brian Schiro, Alexander Misono, James Benenati, Michael Chuong, Alex Powell, Constantino Pena, Emir Veledar, Anshul Saxena, and Ripal Gandhi

Management of High Hepatopulmonary Shunts in the Setting of Y90 Radioembolization, Brian Schiro, Edgar St. Amour, Christopher Harnain, and Ripal Gandhi

Submissions from 2018 2018

Endovascular Treatment of Concurrent Bilateral Common and Internal Iliac Artery Aneurysms with Preserved Pelvic Circulation: Bilateral Iliac Branch Devices with Opposing Single Division Internal Iliac Artery Sparing, Ramsey Al-Hakim, Libby Watch, and Alex Powell

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Chronic Chest Pain-Noncardiac Etiology Unlikely-Low to Intermediate Probability of Coronary Artery Disease, Juan Batlle

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Suspected New-Onset and Known Nonacute Heart Failure, Juan Batlle

I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen, Juan Batlle

A five-step strategy for building an LDCT lung cancer screening program, Juan Batlle, Muhammad Latif, and Ricardo Cury

Utility of a Power Aspiration-Based Extraction Technique as an Initial and Secondary Approach in the Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Thromboembolism: Results of the Multicenter PRISM Trial, James Benenati

Associations between CT-determined visceral fat burden, hepatic steatosis, circulating white blood cell counts and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, Ricardo Cury

Atherosclerotic Plaque Burden Determined by Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography is Predictive of Long-Term Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Older Populations, Ricardo Cury

CAC-DRS: Coronary Artery Calcium Data and Reporting System. An expert consensus document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), Ricardo Cury

Coronary Atherosclerotic Precursors of Acute Coronary Syndromes, Ricardo Cury

Incremental prognostic value of coronary computed tomography angiography over coronary calcium scoring for major adverse cardiac events in elderly asymptomatic individuals, Ricardo Cury

Influence of Symptom Typicality for Predicting MACE in Patients Without Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: From the CONFIRM Registry (Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes: An International Multicenter Registry), Ricardo Cury

Maximization of the usage of coronary CTA derived plaque information using a machine learning based algorithm to improve risk stratification; insights from the CONFIRM registry, Ricardo Cury