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Volume 17 - Issue 3 - March, 2005

Case Report
08/01/2008
Sai Devarapalli, MD; Sharon Cline, MD; Vijay G. Kalaria, MD, MBBS
Case report. A 73-year-old male with a previous history of four-vessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG; LIMA-LAD, SVG-OM3, sequential SVG to RPDA-RPL) in 1985 presented with chest pain consistent with unstable angina. Medical...
Case report. A 73-year-old male with a previous history of four-vessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG; LIMA-LAD, SVG-OM3, sequential SVG to RPDA-RPL) in 1985 presented with chest pain consistent with unstable angina. Medical...
Case report. A 73-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Umesh S. Lingegowda, MD; Jonathan D. Marmur, MD, FACC; Erdal Cavusoglu, MD
Catheter-induced spasm of the left main coronary artery is rare but has been previously reported. The accurate diagnosis and differentiation of left main coronary spasm from fixed left main obstructive disease has obvious significant clinical...
Catheter-induced spasm of the left main coronary artery is rare but has been previously reported. The accurate diagnosis and differentiation of left main coronary spasm from fixed left main obstructive disease has obvious significant clinical...
Catheter-induced spasm of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Electrophysiology Corner
08/01/2008
Brenda Neckels, RN, BSN; Heather Shook, RN; Mohsen Sharifi, MD; Shmuel Inbar, MD
Twiddler syndrome is an infrequent but potentially dangerous complication of device therapy for dysrhythmias. This syndrome results from the manipulation of the implanted pulse generator by the patient, leading to traction and subsequent lead...
Twiddler syndrome is an infrequent but potentially dangerous complication of device therapy for dysrhythmias. This syndrome results from the manipulation of the implanted pulse generator by the patient, leading to traction and subsequent lead...
Twiddler syndrome is an...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Vascular Disease
08/01/2008
Alberto Tamashiro, MD; Miguel O. Villegas, MD; José Antonio Díaz, MD
Case report. We report the case of a 46-year-old male who presented with an 18-month history of postprandial abdominal pain that had worsened during the previous two months, diarrhea, and a 12 kg weight lost. His previous medical history...
Case report. We report the case of a 46-year-old male who presented with an 18-month history of postprandial abdominal pain that had worsened during the previous two months, diarrhea, and a 12 kg weight lost. His previous medical history...
Case report. We report the case...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, which coincides with the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, includes original research articles, case reports, editorials, a review, and articles from...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, which coincides with the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, includes original research articles, case reports, editorials, a review, and articles from...
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial
08/01/2008
Alex Zapolanski, MD
Historia magistra vitae est. Cicero, Tusculanas, 2 A look at the historical evolution of coronary bypass surgery is helpful in understanding the dilemma facing cardiac surgeons today. What is the ideal technique to achieve the best surgical...
Historia magistra vitae est. Cicero, Tusculanas, 2 A look at the historical evolution of coronary bypass surgery is helpful in understanding the dilemma facing cardiac surgeons today. What is the ideal technique to achieve the best surgical...
Historia magistra vitae est. ...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
C. Dean Katsamakis, DO; Malgorzata Kozinski, MD; Lloyd W. Klein, MD
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have had a significant impact on restenosis rates after elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in clinical practice. The use of specially-designed coatings to release a cytostatic or cytotoxic agent within...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have had a significant impact on restenosis rates after elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in clinical practice. The use of specially-designed coatings to release a cytostatic or cytotoxic agent within...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Thom G. Dahle, MD; Alan Berger, MD; Naip Tuna, MD; Gladwin Das, MD
Case Report. A 35-year-old healthy male with no significant previous medical illness presented to the emergency room with 24 hours of dull constant pain across his chest. Prior to the onset, he had collided with another player during a...
Case Report. A 35-year-old healthy male with no significant previous medical illness presented to the emergency room with 24 hours of dull constant pain across his chest. Prior to the onset, he had collided with another player during a...
Case Report. A 35-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Ross J. Goodfellow, DO, FACC, FSCAI; Jeffrey Schwartz, MD; Ferdinand Leya, MD
Case report. A 73-year-old male presented to his cardiologist with complaints of dyspnea on exertion over the past two years. The dyspnea had been progressively worsening over the previous three months, to the point where the patient had to...
Case report. A 73-year-old male presented to his cardiologist with complaints of dyspnea on exertion over the past two years. The dyspnea had been progressively worsening over the previous three months, to the point where the patient had to...
Case report. A 73-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Nicholas Cox, MD; Gregory R. Giugliano, MD
The Barath Cutting Balloon (CB) (Boston Scientific, Natick, Massachusetts) was designed to score atherosclerotic plaque during balloon angioplasty using 3 or 4 longitudinal atherotomes.1 This microsurgical dilatation technique allows coronary...
The Barath Cutting Balloon (CB) (Boston Scientific, Natick, Massachusetts) was designed to score atherosclerotic plaque during balloon angioplasty using 3 or 4 longitudinal atherotomes.1 This microsurgical dilatation technique allows coronary...
The Barath Cutting Balloon (CB)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Karen Concilio, PA; Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH; Ralf J. Holzer, MD, MSc
The management of coarctation of the aorta beyond the immediate neonatal period has long been the focus of much controversy. Development of aortic aneurysms, with their inherent risk of spontaneous rupture and death,1,2 is not infrequently...
The management of coarctation of the aorta beyond the immediate neonatal period has long been the focus of much controversy. Development of aortic aneurysms, with their inherent risk of spontaneous rupture and death,1,2 is not infrequently...
The management of coarctation of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Lawrence P. O'Meallie, MD; Nirav Y. Raval, MD; Jose G. Diez, MD
The presence of cardiovascular symptoms secondary to the existence of a large branch of the internal mammary artery before its anastomosis to the anterior descending artery is controversial. Sutherland and Desai described the presence of the...
The presence of cardiovascular symptoms secondary to the existence of a large branch of the internal mammary artery before its anastomosis to the anterior descending artery is controversial. Sutherland and Desai described the presence of the...
The presence of cardiovascular...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Pavel Guigauri, MD; Harold L. Dauerman, MD
Stent embolization is an uncommon but potentially serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The incidence of coronary stent embolization is 0.3–8.3% and varies with stent type, need for manual crimping, and clinical...
Stent embolization is an uncommon but potentially serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The incidence of coronary stent embolization is 0.3–8.3% and varies with stent type, need for manual crimping, and clinical...
Stent embolization is an...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Kim A. Eagle, MD; Debabrata Mukherjee, MD, MS; David Meier, MD
The incidence of coronary anomalies in patients undergoing coronary angiography is approximately 1.3%.1 Most of these anomalies are clinically benign, but some of them are associated with a high risk of myocardial infarction and sudden...
The incidence of coronary anomalies in patients undergoing coronary angiography is approximately 1.3%.1 Most of these anomalies are clinically benign, but some of them are associated with a high risk of myocardial infarction and sudden...
The incidence of coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial
08/01/2008
Giampaolo Niccoli, MD, PhD; Carlo Trani, MD; Mario Attilio Mazzari, MD; Francesco Burzotta, MD, PhD; Filippo Crea, MD; Giovanni Schiavoni, MD; Enrico Romagnoli, MD, PhD; Antonio Giuseppe Rebuzzi, MD; Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai, MD, PhD; Rocco Mongiardo, MD; Antonino Buffon, MD; Vito Ramazzotti, MD
The appropriate selection of the type of guide wire and its correct manipulation and positioning inside the coronary vessels are essential for successful percutaneous intervention (PCI). In most procedures, one guide wire is sufficient to...
The appropriate selection of the type of guide wire and its correct manipulation and positioning inside the coronary vessels are essential for successful percutaneous intervention (PCI). In most procedures, one guide wire is sufficient to...
The appropriate selection of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Henning Bagger, MD; Jens Hedegaard Kristensen, MD; Per Dahl Christensen, MD; Christian Klausen, MD
Transfemoral coronary angiography is not always possible because of obstructive arterial disease, and following the procedure, hemostasis can be difficult to achieve. An alternative transradial procedure described by Campeau1 has been widely...
Transfemoral coronary angiography is not always possible because of obstructive arterial disease, and following the procedure, hemostasis can be difficult to achieve. An alternative transradial procedure described by Campeau1 has been widely...
Transfemoral coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Yanming Huang, MD; Lan Wang, MD; Xiaoshun Liu, MD; Erik Verbeken, MD, PhD; Ivan De Scheerder, MD, PhD; Koen Salu, MD; Shengqiao Li, MD; Gunter Lorenz; Stephan Wnendt; Johan Bosmans, MD; Frans Van de Werf, MD, PhD
Materials and Methods Stent and stent coating. Stainless steel balloon-expandable stents (Jostent,™ Germany) were used for these studies. The bare stents, 16 mm long, were dip-coated in a biological polymer (SAE coating) or in a...
Materials and Methods Stent and stent coating. Stainless steel balloon-expandable stents (Jostent,™ Germany) were used for these studies. The bare stents, 16 mm long, were dip-coated in a biological polymer (SAE coating) or in a...
Materials and Methods Stent and...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Tat-Chi Leung, MD; Tak-Sun Tse, MD; Chi-Kin Chan, MD, MRCP, MBBS; Kenneth Ka-Hing Lam, MD; Loretta Yin-Chun Yam, MD; Kin-Lam Tsui, MD; Shu-Kin Li, MD; Man-Ching Li, MD; Kwok-Keung Chan, MD
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emergent global threat caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV),1–3 which had caused outbreaks worldwide in 2003 with substantial morbidity and mortality,4–8 affecting over 8,000 patients and...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emergent global threat caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV),1–3 which had caused outbreaks worldwide in 2003 with substantial morbidity and mortality,4–8 affecting over 8,000 patients and...
Severe acute respiratory...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Dawn Powers; Joseph R. Carver, MD
In 2005, we live in a world full of lurking danger with biological terrorism, antimicrobial resistance, and new virulent and deadly viruses, always threatening on the horizon. Since 2003, we have seen the emergence of SARS as a major...
In 2005, we live in a world full of lurking danger with biological terrorism, antimicrobial resistance, and new virulent and deadly viruses, always threatening on the horizon. Since 2003, we have seen the emergence of SARS as a major...
In 2005, we live in a world full...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Jennifer Axelband, DO; John Byron Patterson, MD; Daniel A. Belletti; Jeanne Jacoby, MD; Michael Heller, MD
It is well established that early angioplasty reduces mortality in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).1–5 As the benefits of primary angioplasty over thrombolysis are time-dependent, it is important to minimize...
It is well established that early angioplasty reduces mortality in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).1–5 As the benefits of primary angioplasty over thrombolysis are time-dependent, it is important to minimize...
It is well established that...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
J. Tift Mann, III, MD, FACC; Elizabeth Bazemore, BS
The benefits of the transradial approach have clearly been documented in numerous studies in the past ten years.1–9 Access site bleeding complication rates are lower and early ambulation results in a significant reduction in patient morbidity...
The benefits of the transradial approach have clearly been documented in numerous studies in the past ten years.1–9 Access site bleeding complication rates are lower and early ambulation results in a significant reduction in patient morbidity...
The benefits of the transradial...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Shun Kohsaka, MD; Eduardo Hernandez-Vila, MD; James J. Ferguson, III, MD
Patients with recurring symptoms of angina due to saphenous vein graft (SVG) disease pose a difficult and increasingly frequent challenge. In general, these patients are older and have more extensive and diffuse disease of both the native...
Patients with recurring symptoms of angina due to saphenous vein graft (SVG) disease pose a difficult and increasingly frequent challenge. In general, these patients are older and have more extensive and diffuse disease of both the native...
Patients with recurring symptoms...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Sunil Chandy, DM; Oommen George, DM; Bobby John, DM; Purendra Pati, DM; Jacob Jose, DM; Paul George, MD; George Joseph, MD, DM
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV) is an effective method for treating rheumatic mitral valve stenosis, producing good short- and long-term results1–2 that are comparable to surgical valvotomy.3–4 Two BMV techniques have been extensively...
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV) is an effective method for treating rheumatic mitral valve stenosis, producing good short- and long-term results1–2 that are comparable to surgical valvotomy.3–4 Two BMV techniques have been extensively...
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Tim A. Fischell, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Andrew J. Carter, DO, FACC
In this issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Eeckhout, et al. have described the adjunctive use of intravascular ultrasound to guide stent implantation in the treatment of symptomatic, “unprotected” left main coronary artery disease....
In this issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Eeckhout, et al. have described the adjunctive use of intravascular ultrasound to guide stent implantation in the treatment of symptomatic, “unprotected” left main coronary artery disease....
In this issue of the Journal of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Alexandre Berger, MD; Xavier Lyon, MD; Christophe Imsand, MD; Laurent Davin, MD; Jean-Marc Meier, MD; Gregoire Girod, MD; Christian Roguelov, MD; Eric Eeckhout, MD, PhD
Currently, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) worldwide is characterized by a liberal use of coronary stents. In developed countries, the average stent use is approximately 80%.1 In the early days of stenting, unacceptable high early...
Currently, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) worldwide is characterized by a liberal use of coronary stents. In developed countries, the average stent use is approximately 80%.1 In the early days of stenting, unacceptable high early...
Currently, percutaneous coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology