Correction of congenital adul cardiac defects: parent foramen ovale, Botallo's duct, inter-atrial septal defects.
These procedures are performed with intracardiac eco-guidance and without general anesthesia.
New drug-eluting stents to prevent restenosis (recurrence of vessel narrowing) are available.
We are evaluating, in clinical research protocols, different methods to stimulate growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) or new myocardial cells (stem cell therapy).
Our Center is particularly devoted to the use of advanced techniques to re-open chronically occluded coronary or peripheral arteries.
Extraordinary results have been demontrated by recent muticenter double blind randomized trials (RAVEL-SIRIUS-TAXUS-ENDEAVOR) with
two-arm design, which assessed the safety and effectiveness of these Stents.