Cath Lab Digest Editor's Update
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EDITOR’S UPDATE • March/April 2026, Vol. 34, No. 2
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Articles for March/April 2026
NON-COMPLIANT BALLOONS
Optimizing Stent Expansion With the OPN NC Balloon in an Era of Increasing PCI Complexity
CLD talks with Khaldoon Alaswad, MD.
VENOUS DISEASE
Femoral Vein Reconstruction: A Complicated Case Example Treating Chronic Venous Disease With a Modified Gun-Sight Technique
Matthew Tiede, MD
Reprinted with permission from Vascular Disease Management (December 2025)
CASE REPORT
Simultaneous Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation and Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
Mustafa Tunahan Öz; Mohammed A.A. Alzawi; Revan Israfilov; Adnan Kaya
IMAGING CORNER
Using 4D ICE for LAAO in a Rural Patient
Images/courtesy Cardiovascular Associates of Arizona
CASE REPORT
Bracing for the Unseen: Navigating the Unpredictable in Heart Failure
Muhammad Imran Hanif, MBBS, FCPS (Cardiology), FSCAI, FRCP(Edin); Minahil Tariq Sheikh, MBBS, FCPS (Cardiology)
CASE REPORT & DISCUSSION
“Wound to Amputation” — How Insurance Companies Are Dictating the Clinical Care of Critical Limb Ischemia
From Salvageable to Non-Salvageable Limb
Ivana Dilip Kumar, Research Associate; Anshita Kumari, MBBS; Kusum Lata, MD, FACC, FSCAI
COMMENTARY
Who Owns the Limb? Ethical Boundaries of Insurance Control Over Medical Decisions
Anamika Fnu, MD; Sakshi Dixit, MD; Anmol Multani, MD; Akiva Rosenzveig, MD; Aravinda Nanjundappa, MD
CARDIAC TUMOR
Cardiac Hemangioma Opacification During Cardiac Catheterization: “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t”
Richard Casazza MAS; Armando Seitllari, MD; Khaled Abaza, MD; Arsalan Hashmi, MD
THROMBECTOMY
Mechanical and Aspiration Thrombectomy with the InThrill Thrombectomy System for Treating Dialysis Access Thrombosis Without Adjunctive Thrombolytics
Yana Etkin, MD; Caitlin Dowling
CLINICAL EDITOR’S CORNER
Conversations in Cardiology: Pectus Excavatum and Coronary Compression in the Elderly
Morton J. Kern, MD, with contributions from Steve Goldberg, MD; Dean Kereiakes, MD; Mike Ragosta, MD; Ken Rosenfield, MD; Carl Tommaso, MD
*Note: Articles subject to change at the discretion of the editor.
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