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Volume 17 - Issue 7 - July, 2005

Case Report
08/01/2008
Stefano Rigattieri, MD, PhD; Martial Hamon, MD, FESC; Gilles Grollier, MD
The transradial approach for percutaneous coronary interventions represents an effective and safe alternative to the traditional transfemoral approach, allowing earlier ambulation and discharge, greater comfort for the patient, and less...
The transradial approach for percutaneous coronary interventions represents an effective and safe alternative to the traditional transfemoral approach, allowing earlier ambulation and discharge, greater comfort for the patient, and less...
The transradial approach for...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Woong Chol Kang, MD; Tae Hoon Ahn, MD; Seung-Hwan Han, MD; Eak Kyun Shin, MD; Kyung Rim Choi, MD
Since the use of combined antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and thienopyridines, the incidence of stent thrombosis is uncommon. Moreover, late stent thrombosis (> 30 days after stent implantation) is extremely rare with bare metal stents...
Since the use of combined antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and thienopyridines, the incidence of stent thrombosis is uncommon. Moreover, late stent thrombosis (> 30 days after stent implantation) is extremely rare with bare metal stents...
Since the use of combined...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Paulo M. Andrade, MD; Alvaro Pacheco, MD; Alysson Faidiga, MD; Stefan Negrao, MD; Enio E. Guarios, MD, PhD; Ronaldo R.L. Bueno, MD, PhD; Deborah Nercolini, MD; José C. Tarastchuk, MD
The prevailing cause of mitral stenosis (MS) is a progressive reaction to an injury caused by one of the major manifestations of rheumatic fever (RF): rheumatic carditis. The mitral is the valve most commonly prone to suffer a rheumatic...
The prevailing cause of mitral stenosis (MS) is a progressive reaction to an injury caused by one of the major manifestations of rheumatic fever (RF): rheumatic carditis. The mitral is the valve most commonly prone to suffer a rheumatic...
The prevailing cause of mitral...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Antonio Colombo, MD; Worawut Tassanawiwat, MD; Ioannis Iakovou, MD
Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease is infrequently associated with ectasia and aneurysms due to extreme positive remodelling.1 Coronary artery aneurysms have been excluded with coil embolization, autologous saphenous vein-covered stent...
Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease is infrequently associated with ectasia and aneurysms due to extreme positive remodelling.1 Coronary artery aneurysms have been excluded with coil embolization, autologous saphenous vein-covered stent...
Atherosclerotic coronary artery...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Teresa Draughn, MD; Brent Davis, MD; Robert J. Applegate, MD
The optimal treatment of bifurcation disease remains a challenging clinical problem.1 Although numerous techniques and strategies have been explored and reported,2–7 including “crushing” a drug-eluting stent with another drug-eluting stent,...
The optimal treatment of bifurcation disease remains a challenging clinical problem.1 Although numerous techniques and strategies have been explored and reported,2–7 including “crushing” a drug-eluting stent with another drug-eluting stent,...
The optimal treatment of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Wercules Oliveira, MD; George C. Meireles, MD; Joao Pimenta, MD, PhD
Myelodysplastic syndrome is a clonal hematopoietic stem-cell disorder characterized by cytopenia caused by inadequate proliferation and differentiation of blood cells due to dysmorphic or abnormal cellular bone marrow. When the megakaryocytic...
Myelodysplastic syndrome is a clonal hematopoietic stem-cell disorder characterized by cytopenia caused by inadequate proliferation and differentiation of blood cells due to dysmorphic or abnormal cellular bone marrow. When the megakaryocytic...
Myelodysplastic syndrome is a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
Reginald Low, MD; Brian Firth, MD, PhD, MBA; David R. Holmes, Jr., MD; Wolfgang Ritter, MD; Peter Gonschior, MD; George D. Dangas, MD, PhD
George Dangas: There have been many attempts and many failures in this field due perhaps to the inherent tendency of interventional cardiologists to move quickly and work from assumptions, applying what may not yet be well understood. Gene...
George Dangas: There have been many attempts and many failures in this field due perhaps to the inherent tendency of interventional cardiologists to move quickly and work from assumptions, applying what may not yet be well understood. Gene...
George Dangas: There have been...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
William O’Neill: I have a couple of questions for both of you. First, we are essentially talking about adult, autologous stem cells. As you all know, there is enormous controversy in the U.S. about the use of embryonic stem cells which we are...
William O’Neill: I have a couple of questions for both of you. First, we are essentially talking about adult, autologous stem cells. As you all know, there is enormous controversy in the U.S. about the use of embryonic stem cells which we are...
William O’Neill: I have a couple...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Vascular Disease
08/01/2008
Jeffrey M. Friedel, MD; Ramzi Khalil, MD; David Lasorda, MD, DO
Iatrogenic renal artery perforation is a rare, but well-described complication of percutaneous renal artery intervention.1–3 Treatment has traditionally involved surgical intervention including renal artery reconstruction, bypass grafting,...
Iatrogenic renal artery perforation is a rare, but well-described complication of percutaneous renal artery intervention.1–3 Treatment has traditionally involved surgical intervention including renal artery reconstruction, bypass grafting,...
Iatrogenic renal artery...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Kimberly A. Skelding, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI; John J. Young, MD
There are more than 150 million adults worldwide estimated to have diabetes mellitus (DM), with Type 2 diabetes accounting for up to 95% of all cases.1 In 2001, the prevalence of DM in the United States was 8%, a relative increase of...
There are more than 150 million adults worldwide estimated to have diabetes mellitus (DM), with Type 2 diabetes accounting for up to 95% of all cases.1 In 2001, the prevalence of DM in the United States was 8%, a relative increase of...
There are more than 150 million...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Marc Ohlow, MD; Bernward Lauer, MD; Hubertus von Korn, MD; Jiangtao Yu, MD; Burckhard Huegl, MD; Andreas Wagner, MD
Percutaneous angioplasty of aorto-coronary venous bypass grafts is associated with a higher incidence of adverse events compared to interventions in native vessels.1 Reasons for this well-known phenomen are emboli of pieces of friable...
Percutaneous angioplasty of aorto-coronary venous bypass grafts is associated with a higher incidence of adverse events compared to interventions in native vessels.1 Reasons for this well-known phenomen are emboli of pieces of friable...
Percutaneous angioplasty of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Patrick Hall, MD; Robert Safian, MD; Ajay Virmani, MD; Nicolas W. Shammas, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI, FACP, FSVM; John J. Young, MD; David E. Allie, MD; John R. Laird, MD, FACC, FACP
Predictors of complications in peripheral percutaneous interventions (PPI) with bivalirudin as a base anticoagulant have not yet been defined. The Angiomax Peripheral Procedure Registry of Vascular Events (APPROVE)1 offers a unique...
Predictors of complications in peripheral percutaneous interventions (PPI) with bivalirudin as a base anticoagulant have not yet been defined. The Angiomax Peripheral Procedure Registry of Vascular Events (APPROVE)1 offers a unique...
Predictors of complications in...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
James E. Tcheng, MD; Michael M. Kitt, MD; David J. Cohen, MD, MPH, MSc; Robert J. Chisholm, MD, FRCPC; Henry K. Lui, MD; Robert L. Feldman, MD; Robert Green, MD; Anne S. Hellkamp, PhD; Warren J. Cantor, MD; J. Conor O'Shea, MD; Mina Madan, MD, MPH
Potent inhibition of platelet aggregation during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using intravenous antagonists of the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor results in a significant and sustained reduction in the occurrence of...
Potent inhibition of platelet aggregation during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using intravenous antagonists of the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor results in a significant and sustained reduction in the occurrence of...
Potent inhibition of platelet...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
José Javier Zueco, MD; Jose de la Torre Hernandez, MD, PhD; Fermin Sainz Laso, MD; Cristina Ruisanchez, MD; Alvaro Figueroa, MD, PhD; Thierry Colman, MD
Coronary calcification is an important process of atherosclerosis and represents advanced coronary disease.1,2 The presence and extent of coronary calcification is an important determinant of the outcome of percutaneous intervention...
Coronary calcification is an important process of atherosclerosis and represents advanced coronary disease.1,2 The presence and extent of coronary calcification is an important determinant of the outcome of percutaneous intervention...
Coronary calcification is an...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Feature
08/01/2008
Shigenori Ito, MD; Takahiko Suzuki, MD; Makoto Itoh, MD
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) represents a promising new technology1–2 for imaging the vascular microstructure at a level of 10–20 mm,3–6 which has not yet been achieved with the use of other imaging modalities.7–9 It may permit the...
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) represents a promising new technology1–2 for imaging the vascular microstructure at a level of 10–20 mm,3–6 which has not yet been achieved with the use of other imaging modalities.7–9 It may permit the...
Optical coherence tomography...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Walter C. Coats, DO, BS; Joel Gorfinkel, MD
Increasing evidence supports the use of bivalirudin as an adjunct to percutaneous coronary intervention to minimize bleeding complications.1,2 We describe a patient who developed an acute myocardial infarction one hour following total knee...
Increasing evidence supports the use of bivalirudin as an adjunct to percutaneous coronary intervention to minimize bleeding complications.1,2 We describe a patient who developed an acute myocardial infarction one hour following total knee...
Increasing evidence supports the...
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 includes original research articles, case reports, case reports with reviews of the literature, editorials, and articles from the some of the journal’s special sections. In the...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, case reports, case reports with reviews of the literature, editorials, and articles from the some of the journal’s special sections. In the...
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Feature
08/01/2008
Georgios Sianos, MD, PhD; Willem J. van der Giessen, MD, PhD; Gaston A. Alfredo Rodriguez-Granillo, MD; Pim J. de Feyter, MD, PhD; Joost Daemen, MD, PhD; Ron T. van Domburg, PhD; Andrew T.L. Ong, MD, MBBS, PhD; Jiro Aoki, MD; Carlos A.G. van Mieghem, MD; Karel Sonnenschein; Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD; Eugene P. McFadden, MB, MD
Several clinical studies have demonstrated that diabetes mellitus is an important predictor of angiographic restenosis and late mortality after conventional balloon angioplasty.1,2 Stent implantation has been shown to improve the clinical...
Several clinical studies have demonstrated that diabetes mellitus is an important predictor of angiographic restenosis and late mortality after conventional balloon angioplasty.1,2 Stent implantation has been shown to improve the clinical...
Several clinical studies have...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology