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- Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)
- Intracoronary Imaging
- Invasive Imaging, Other
- Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS)
Adjunctive intravascular imaging within CTO’s – an A-Z
At Optima Education we believe that medical education can be better. Technology is changing and with it the way that we learn. We believe that ideas, concepts and techniques can, and should, be...
At Optima Education we believe that medical education can be better. Technology is changing and with it the way that we learn. We believe that ideas, concepts and techniques can, and should, be expressed more clearly. We believe that learning is quicker, with more information being retained when it is presented in the correct way.
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Nieves Gonzalo
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Dr Nieves Gonzalo is Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Interventional Cardiology... Dr Nieves Gonzalo is Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Interventional Cardiology Department at Clinico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid. She obtained her Specialist Certification in Cardiology after training at Clinico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid. Subsequently, she underwent a research fellowship at Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) under the supervision of Professor Patrick Serruys, focused mainly in intracoronary imaging and bioabsorbable stents. In 2010 she obtained her PhD with the thesis “Optical coherence tomography for the assessment of coronary atherosclerosis and vessel response after stent implantation”. Her track record includes over 170 articles indexed in PubMed, as well as book chapters in Interventional Cardiology textbooks. Recent research projects as principal investigator includes a study about the assessment of neoatherosclerosis and its clinical impact in patients with restenosis (RIBS IV and V OCT substudy) and research regarding vessel injury and healing evaluation with different stent platforms evaluated with OCT (VISTA study). Dr Gonzalo is a dedicated educationalist with involvement in many areas of complex PCI, serving currently as Deputy Editor for Eurointervention and Committee Member of EuroPCR.
