Volume 15 - Issue 12 - December, 2003
08/01/2008
Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein, MD; Rimvida Obeleniene, MD
Clinical problem. Heart failure patients are frequently hospitalized with decompensated heart failure,1 usually with volume overload. Treatment guidelines recommend diuretics to optimize volume status,2 and are most effective administered...
Clinical problem. Heart failure patients are frequently hospitalized with decompensated heart failure,1 usually with volume overload. Treatment guidelines recommend diuretics to optimize volume status,2 and are most effective administered...
Clinical problem. Heart failure...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Leslee J. Shaw, PhD; Peter C. Block, MD; William S. Weintraub, MD, FACC; Charles R. McKay, MD; Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH, FACC; Kathleen Hewitt, MSN, RN, CPHQ; Lloyd W. Klein, MD; Ronald J. Krone, MD; Vernon Anderson, MD; Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
The use of risk adjustment methodology to account for patient differences in treatment outcomes is imperative to legitimately compare the results of institutions performing cardiovascular intervention. Mortality has been the most widely used...
The use of risk adjustment methodology to account for patient differences in treatment outcomes is imperative to legitimately compare the results of institutions performing cardiovascular intervention. Mortality has been the most widely used...
The use of risk adjustment...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Ranjan K. Thakur, MD, MPH; Muhammad Siddique, MD; Anoop K. Gupta, MD, DM, DNB
Thoracic aortic aneurysm continues to be a life-threatening problem because of associated comorbid conditions and high morbidity and mortality associated with conventional open repair.1 Despite the remarkable improvements in treatment as a...
Thoracic aortic aneurysm continues to be a life-threatening problem because of associated comorbid conditions and high morbidity and mortality associated with conventional open repair.1 Despite the remarkable improvements in treatment as a...
Thoracic aortic aneurysm...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Flavio Airoldi, MD; Antonio Colombo, MD
Stainless steel and small amounts of nickel, chromium molybdenum and other contaminants tends to produce a foreign body reaction when implanted in human coronary arteries. The goal of “passive coatings” is to make the stent as neutral as...
Stainless steel and small amounts of nickel, chromium molybdenum and other contaminants tends to produce a foreign body reaction when implanted in human coronary arteries. The goal of “passive coatings” is to make the stent as neutral as...
Stainless steel and small...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
Jesús Perez del Todo, MD; Raúl Moreno-Gómez, MD, PhD; Carlos Macaya, MD, PhD
Systolic compression (milking) of the coronary arteries is almost always due to the existence of myocardial bridging. The prevalence of myocardial bridging ranges from 0.5% to 16% of patients submitted to coronary angiography, and is usually...
Systolic compression (milking) of the coronary arteries is almost always due to the existence of myocardial bridging. The prevalence of myocardial bridging ranges from 0.5% to 16% of patients submitted to coronary angiography, and is usually...
Systolic compression (milking)...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, a special medical informatics update, interesting case reports, and articles from the Journal special sections “Clinical Decision Making” and...
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, a special medical informatics update, interesting case reports, and articles from the Journal special sections “Clinical Decision Making” and...
Dear Readers,
This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
C.K. Ekonomou, MD, D.P. Papadopoulos, MD, N.V. Dalianis, MD, N.G. Stratigis, MD,
J. Benos, CVT, V.E. Votteas
C.K. Ekonomou, MD, D.P. Papadopoulos,...
Congenital coronary arteriovenous fistula (CAF) is a rare anomaly. The incidence of congenital cardiac lesions is only 0.13%.1 Over 90% of these fistulas drain into the systemic venous side of the circulation.2 Drainage of the fistula into...
Congenital coronary arteriovenous fistula (CAF) is a rare anomaly. The incidence of congenital cardiac lesions is only 0.13%.1 Over 90% of these fistulas drain into the systemic venous side of the circulation.2 Drainage of the fistula into...
Congenital coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Jürgen Haase, MD, PhD; Manfred Hofmann, MD; Claus-Eberhard Schwarz, MD; Harald Reinemer, MD; Franz Schwarz, MD, PhD; Hans Störger, MD
Implantation of stainless-steel stents has improved the results of percutaneous coronary revascularization.1,2 However, in various subsets of lesions, especially in the presence of complex lesion morphology, in-stent restenosis due to late...
Implantation of stainless-steel stents has improved the results of percutaneous coronary revascularization.1,2 However, in various subsets of lesions, especially in the presence of complex lesion morphology, in-stent restenosis due to late...
Implantation of stainless-steel...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Thomas Münzel, MD; Ralf Kösterf, MD; Andreas M. Zeiher, MD; Christian Maikowski, MD; Christian W. Hamm, MD, PhD, FESC; Tassilo Bonzel, MD; Matthias Rau, MD; Volker Schäachinger, MD
Percutaneous interventions of degenerated saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) are associated with high rates of distal embolic events and in-stent restenosis.1 Recent experience with covered stents suggests that these types of devices may be a...
Percutaneous interventions of degenerated saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) are associated with high rates of distal embolic events and in-stent restenosis.1 Recent experience with covered stents suggests that these types of devices may be a...
Percutaneous interventions of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
David E. Kandzari, MD
For patients treated with coronary bypass surgery, atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease may compromise blood flow to more distally located arterial bypass grafts. In most instances, proximal subclavian artery stenosis limits flow to...
For patients treated with coronary bypass surgery, atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease may compromise blood flow to more distally located arterial bypass grafts. In most instances, proximal subclavian artery stenosis limits flow to...
For patients treated with...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
