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Volume 15 - Issue 9 - September, 2003

Vascular Disease
08/01/2008
Syed W. Bokhari, MD; Omid Vahdat, MD; Rex J. Winters, MD
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is an established form of revascularization, typically associated with improved survival. However, CABG has its own inherent deficiencies, including recurrent ischemia, venous graft failure and the...
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is an established form of revascularization, typically associated with improved survival. However, CABG has its own inherent deficiencies, including recurrent ischemia, venous graft failure and the...
Coronary artery bypass graft...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology marks the beginning of a new home for the journal and for the editor-in-chief. Management of the journal will now be coordinated from the office of the Joint Cardiac Program of...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology marks the beginning of a new home for the journal and for the editor-in-chief. Management of the journal will now be coordinated from the office of the Joint Cardiac Program of...
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Jean Fajadet, MD; Jean Marco, MD; Mohamed Ibrahim Loutfi, MD; Niall T. Mulvihill, MD; Emmanuel Salengro, MD; Marco Boccalatte, MD; Jean Claude Laborde, MD
Coronary subclavian steal syndrome is a variant of subclavian steal syndrome. It consists of obstructive atherosclerotic disease of the proximal subclavian artery in the presence of a patent internal mammary artery that has been previously...
Coronary subclavian steal syndrome is a variant of subclavian steal syndrome. It consists of obstructive atherosclerotic disease of the proximal subclavian artery in the presence of a patent internal mammary artery that has been previously...
Coronary subclavian steal...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Stefan Horn, MD; Karl-Ludwig Neuhaus, MD; Uwe Zeymer, MD; Ulrich Tebbe, MD; Michael Weber, MD, PhD; Rainer Jaksch, MD; Karl-Otto Bischoff, MD; Wolfgang Toepel, MD; Parvaneh Marsalek, MD
Cardiogenic shock occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).1 Despite the use of early reperfusion therapies with thrombolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the mortality in these...
Cardiogenic shock occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).1 Despite the use of early reperfusion therapies with thrombolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the mortality in these...
Cardiogenic shock occurs in...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Reda Ibrahim, MD; Cezar S. Staniloae, MD; Ziad El-Khally, MD; Annie Dore, MD; Pierre de Guise, MD; Lise-Andree Mercier, MD
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital cardiac anomalies encountered in adults.1 Surgical ASD closure leads to improved functional status, reduces the risk of progressive right-sided failure and prevents the...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital cardiac anomalies encountered in adults.1 Surgical ASD closure leads to improved functional status, reduces the risk of progressive right-sided failure and prevents the...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
P. Syamasundar Rao, MD, FACC
Since the initial description in the mid 1970s by King and Mills et al.1–3 of an atrial septal defect occluding device, a number of other devices have been studied, including: Rashkind’s devices (hooked and double umbrella), Clamshell...
Since the initial description in the mid 1970s by King and Mills et al.1–3 of an atrial septal defect occluding device, a number of other devices have been studied, including: Rashkind’s devices (hooked and double umbrella), Clamshell...
Since the initial description in...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Monica Youngblut, RN; Eric J. Dippel, MD; Melodee Harris, RN, BSc; Nicolas W. Shammas, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI, FACP, FSVM; Vickie S. Takes, RT(R), CCRC, RN; Jon H. Lemke, PhD, MD; Dawn E. McKinney, MA
Unfractionated heparin (UFH) is the current antithrombotic agent utilized during peripheral angioplasty procedures (PTA). UFH has an unpredictable anticoagulation response, is an indirect thrombin inhibitor, does not inhibit bound thrombin...
Unfractionated heparin (UFH) is the current antithrombotic agent utilized during peripheral angioplasty procedures (PTA). UFH has an unpredictable anticoagulation response, is an indirect thrombin inhibitor, does not inhibit bound thrombin...
Unfractionated heparin (UFH) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Aamir Hameed, MD, FACC; Shafiq Hanna-Moussa, MD; Shukri David, MD
Pseudoaneurysms of saphenous vein grafts are rare following coronary artery bypass surgery. They occur most often at the proximal anastomosis secondary to vessel layer disruption. Rarely do they occur distally. We report the case of a...
Pseudoaneurysms of saphenous vein grafts are rare following coronary artery bypass surgery. They occur most often at the proximal anastomosis secondary to vessel layer disruption. Rarely do they occur distally. We report the case of a...
Pseudoaneurysms of saphenous...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Yaakov Henkin, MD; Jean Marc Weinstein, MRCP; Akram Abu-Ful, MD
Aortic dissection is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1,9 It can be life-threatening and warrants immediate diagnosis and treatment, which may be conservative,1,3 surgical, or stenting.4–6,8,9 We describe a...
Aortic dissection is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1,9 It can be life-threatening and warrants immediate diagnosis and treatment, which may be conservative,1,3 surgical, or stenting.4–6,8,9 We describe a...
Aortic dissection is a rare...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Aaron J. Tande; Thomas Knickelbine, MD; Kevin M. Harris, MD
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a common phenomenon, affecting approximately one-quarter of the normal healthy population. The prevalence of PFO in patients with ischemic stroke is significantly higher than in the normal population.1 Many...
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a common phenomenon, affecting approximately one-quarter of the normal healthy population. The prevalence of PFO in patients with ischemic stroke is significantly higher than in the normal population.1 Many...
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology