Volume 15 - Issue 6 - June, 2003

Original Contribution

Arterial Wall Temperature Following Coronary Stent Implantation in Pigs: The Role of Post-Stent Inflammation

08/01/2008

Leonidas Diamantopoulos, MD, PhD; Yanming Huang, MD; Shenggiao Li, MD; Xiaoshun Liu, MD; Walter Desmet, MD, PhD; Ivan De Scheerder, MD, PhD; Frans Van de Werf, MD, PhD

Arterial endoprostheses (stents) are widely used to improve angioplasty outcome and successfully restore the reduced vascular lumen. However, the metallic nature of stents causes some degree of arterial wall inflammation. This inflammation is...

Arterial endoprostheses (stents)...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

Pulmonary Hemorrhage During Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitor Therapy: An Uncommon but Life-Threatening (and Under-Recognized) Com

08/01/2008

George D. Dangas, MD, PhD; Ioannis Iakovou, MD

The study presented by Ali et al. in this issue of the Journal reports an institutional experience with pulmonary hemorrhage in patients treated with platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors. Use of these intravenous agents has been...

The study presented by Ali et...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

A Technique for Type 4a Coronary Bifurcation Lesions: Initial Results and 6-Month Clinical Evaluation

08/01/2008

Petros S. Dardas, MD; Dimitris D. Tsikaderis, MD; Nick E. Mezilis, MD; Giannis Styliadis, MD

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of bifurcation lesions remains technically challenging.1,2 Immediate and mid-term results using balloon angioplasty are not always satisfactory for various reasons, such as low angiographic success...

Percutaneous coronary...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

A New Technique for Coronary Bifurcations: Good News!

08/01/2008

Vassilis Spanos, MD; Antonio Colombo, MD

Bifurcated coronary artery lesions represent one of the challenging areas in interventional cardiology. Coronary stenting resulted in more predictable results and higher angiographic success rate compared to balloon angioplasty. Angiographic...

Bifurcated coronary artery...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Use of Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors and Spontaneous Pulmonary Hemorrhage

08/01/2008

Arshad Ali, MBBS, MRCP, MD; Mustafa Hashem, MD; Howard S. Rosman, MD; Ghassan Kazmouz, MD; Julius M. Gardin, MD; Theodore L. Schreiber, MD

Key words: percutaneous coronary intervention, platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, pulmonary hemorrhage In 1983, the description of an antibody that blocked the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor led to the development of a...

Key words: percutaneous coronary...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

SFA Intervention in the Treatment of Total Occlusions: Can Endovascular Therapy Compete with Surgical Bypass?

08/01/2008

Frank J. Criado, MD

I read with interest the report by Cho et al. on the results of SFA intervention for treatment of occlusive (not stenotic) lesions. They compared the 6-month outcome of PTA alone with stenting using the Smart nitinol device. We are not told...

I read with interest the report...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Severe Aortic Coarctation in Infants Less Than 3 Months: Successful Palliation by Balloon Angioplasty

08/01/2008

Saadeh Jureidini, MD; P. Syamasundar Rao, MD, FACC; Ian C. Balfour, MD; Gautam K. Singh, MD, BDS; Su-chiung Chen, MD

Key words: aortic coarctation, balloon angioplasty, infants, neonates, transcatheter management Treatment of native aortic coarctation (AC) by balloon angioplasty (BA) is a controversial issue,1–6 but gradually the procedure is gaining...

Key words: aortic coarctation,...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Debulking for In-Stent Restenosis in the Brachytherapy Era: Does it Still Have a Role?

08/01/2008

Ajay Tuli, MD; Veerappan Subramaniyam, MD; Stephen Bakir, MD; Peter C. Block, MD; Ian R. Crocker, MD; Christopher U. Cates, MD

Key words: angioplasty, brachytherapy, laser, restenosis Trials comparing coronary artery stenting to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have shown that repeat revascularization continues to be the main limitation of percutaneous...

Key words: angioplasty,...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Complete Sinus Inversus and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis

08/01/2008

Jeffrey A. Breall, MD, PhD; Deepak Bhakta, MD; Vijay G. Kalaria, MD, MBBS

Key words: adult congenital heart disease, angiography, bicuspid aortic valve stenosis, dextrocardia, situs inversus Patients with congenital heart disease present interesting challenges during heart catheterization. We present an adult...

Key words: adult congenital...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

A Novel Use of Cutting Balloon in Treating Coronary Artery Dissection that Developed During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

08/01/2008

Takahiko Suzuki, MD; Shinsuke Ojio, MD; Shigenori Ito, MD

Key words: acute occlusion, bail-out, coronary angiography, coronary stent Coronary dissections sometimes compromise distal flow due to lack of re-entry, or compression by hematoma after wire manipulation or balloon dilatation during...

Key words: acute occlusion,...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Transradial Management of Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft Disease Using Rheolytic Thrombectomy and Coronary Stenting

08/01/2008

Tift Mann, MD; Jaffar Ali Raza, MD; C.H. Whitlock, RCIS; Michael Arrowood, PA-C

Key words: bypass graft, distal protection, intervention With the large number of patients who have had coronary bypass surgery in the past 20 years, management of recurrent ischemia in patients with venous bypass graft disease is a major...

Key words: bypass graft, distal...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Morphological and Functional Assessment of the Septal Course of a Left Coronary Artery Originating from the Right Sinus of Valsa

08/01/2008

Volker Klauss, MD; Thomas M. Schiele, MD; Christof Weber, MD

Key words: coronary anomaly, intracoronary pressure, intravascular ultrasound, multislice computed tomography Origin of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) from the right aortic sinus is a rare coronary anomaly.1–11 When coursing...

Key words: coronary anomaly,...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Cutting Balloon to Treat Carotid In-Stent Stenosis: Technical Note

08/01/2008

Bernard R. Bendok, MD; Gary S. Roubin, MD, PhD; Alan S. Boulos, MD; Elad I. Levy, MD; Thos Limpijankit, MD; Adnan I. Qureshi, MD; Lee R. Guterman, PhD, MD; L. Nelson Hopkins, MD; Barry T. Katzen, MD, FACC, FACR, FSIR

Key words: angioplasty, carotid stent, cutting balloon, in-stent stenosis Carotid angioplasty with stenting for atherosclerotic stenosis is currently under examination in numerous trials as an alternative to carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and...

Key words: angioplasty, carotid...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Images

Cutting Balloon Before Stent: Angiographic and IVUS Correlation

08/01/2008

David G. Rizik, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Antoine M. Adem, MD; Neil C. Barman, MD

A 50-year-old male presented with de novo rest angina. The panel at the left demonstrates the angiographic and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) appearance of the lesion pre-treatment. Following Cutting Balloon angioplasty with a 4.0 mm device,...

A 50-year-old male presented...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editorial Message

Editor`s Message - April 2003

08/01/2008

Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC

Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, case reports with brief reviews, and articles from the Journal special sections “Acute Coronary Syndromes”, “Interventional Pediatric...

Dear Readers, This issue of the...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Superficial Femoral Artery Occlusion: Nitinol Stents Achieve Flow and Reduce the Need for Medications Better than Balloon Angiop

08/01/2008

Leslie Cho, MD; Marco Roffi, MD; Christopher T. Bajzer, MD; Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI; Jay S. Yadav, MD; Debabrata Mukherjee, MD, MS

Key words:balloon angioplasty, SFA, stents Stents have proven superior to balloon angioplasty in the treatment of coronary atherosclerosis in terms of reduction of acute complications and restenosis.1,2 However, in the treatment of...

Key words:balloon angioplasty,...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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This study evaluated the early safety and performance of the new Myval Octacor Transcatheter Heart Valve (Meril Life Sciences).

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Jeong Hwan J. Kim, MD; Leili Pourafkari, MD; Jonathan Lalezari, MD; Ali Sovari, MD

Video Supplement to "Right Internal Jugular Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in a Patient With an Inferior Vena Cava Filter" (Clinical Image).

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A 51-year-old man with a mixed-phenotype cardiomyopathy was referred for coronary angiography because of new-onset episodes of ventricular arrythmias. At his initial presentation in 2014, he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,...

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