Dr. Angel Obregon, director of the Cardiology department at the Medical-Surgical Research Center (CIMEQ), told the National News Agency that this cardiac catheterism method allows diagnosing heart malformations and proceeding, in most cases, to treat it in the same examination.

The president of the organizing committee of the 15th International Symposium on Interventionist Cardiology, taking place on April 21-23, stated that Cuba will show advances in coronary surgeries, as well as the treatment of the acute myocardial infarction with mother cells.

Cuba has six centers to carry out this kind of minimum-access surgery with satisfactory results, and among advantages is the patient's less time at the hospital, Obregon said.

Among goals are to increase the number of centers in the country to include new techniques like the implant of the aortic valve through per-cutaneous method, that is, without needing an open-chest surgery.

Nearly 200 Cuban professional and guests from Brazil, Spain, Argentina and United States, among them cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, primary care doctors, and those graduated in health technology will attend the scientific event.

This edition will be sponsored by the Latin American Society of Interventionist Cardiology.

(PL)