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Volume 18 - Issue 4 - April, 2006

Case Report
08/01/2008
Ripen K. Gupta, MD; Rakesh Sapra, MD; Upendra Kaul, MD
Drug-eluting stents have ushered in a new era in interventional cardiology with the availability of sirolimus-eluting Cypher™ (Cordis Corp., Miami, Florida) and paclitaxel-eluting Taxus® (Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Massachusetts) stents...
Drug-eluting stents have ushered in a new era in interventional cardiology with the availability of sirolimus-eluting Cypher™ (Cordis Corp., Miami, Florida) and paclitaxel-eluting Taxus® (Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Massachusetts) stents...
Drug-eluting stents have ushered...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Michael S. Lee, MD, DPM, FACFAS, FACC, FSCAI; Raj R. Makkar, MD; Aamer H. Jamali, MD
Coronary perforation is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). As an increasing number of complex PCI procedures are undertaken with aggressive anticoagulation and antiplatelet...
Coronary perforation is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). As an increasing number of complex PCI procedures are undertaken with aggressive anticoagulation and antiplatelet...
Coronary perforation is a rare...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Tejas M. Patel, MD, DM; Sanjay C. Shah, MD, DM; John T. Coppola, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Cezar S. Staniloae, MD; Sudhesh Srivastava, MD; Kintur Sanghvi, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Tak W. Kwan, MD, FACC
With aggressive anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy being used in interventional cardiology, transradial interventions are becoming more popular due to lower bleeding complication rates.1,2 A common situation encountered in transradial...
With aggressive anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy being used in interventional cardiology, transradial interventions are becoming more popular due to lower bleeding complication rates.1,2 A common situation encountered in transradial...
With aggressive anticoagulation...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Ferdinand Kiemeneij, MD, PhD
Radial artery spasm is frequently associated with transradial coronary access. Incidence varies around 10% and is caused by many factors. Spasm rarely leads to serious complications such as eversion atherectomy,1 but is commonly associated...
Radial artery spasm is frequently associated with transradial coronary access. Incidence varies around 10% and is caused by many factors. Spasm rarely leads to serious complications such as eversion atherectomy,1 but is commonly associated...
Radial artery spasm is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Manish A. Parikh, MD; Srihari S. Naidu, MD; Shing-Chiu Wong, MD; Mun K. Hong, MD; Eric Chou, MD; Robert M. Minutello, MD; Geoffrey Bergman, MD, MBBS
Dual antiplatelet therapy of aspirin and a thienopyridine has been established as the standard of care in patients undergoing coronary stent implantation.1–4 Those patients who require chronic anticoagulation for prosthetic cardiac valves,...
Dual antiplatelet therapy of aspirin and a thienopyridine has been established as the standard of care in patients undergoing coronary stent implantation.1–4 Those patients who require chronic anticoagulation for prosthetic cardiac valves,...
Dual antiplatelet therapy of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Marc J. Schweiger, MD; Ehsan Ansari, MD; Gregory R. Giugliano, MD; James Mathew, MD; Ashequl Islam, MD; John Morrison, MD; James R. Cook, MD
Coronary stent implantation decreases restenosis rates when compared with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA),1,2 and the use of these endoluminal scaffolds has increased dramatically since their introduction.3 The most...
Coronary stent implantation decreases restenosis rates when compared with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA),1,2 and the use of these endoluminal scaffolds has increased dramatically since their introduction.3 The most...
Coronary stent implantation...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Roberto Lipsztein, MD; Prabhakar Tripuraneni, MD; Paul S. Teirstein, MD, FACC; Martin B. Leon, MD; Alexandra J. Lansky, MD; Manuela Negoita, MD; Huan Giap, MD; Ray Lin, MD; Stephen Balter, PhD; Roxana Mehran, MD; Shirish Jani, PhD; Matthew J. Price, MD; Jeffrey W. Moses, MD; Stephen Steuterman, MS; Michael B. Collins, MD; Jack Dalton, MD
Intracoronary radiation therapy (ICRT) for in-stent restenosis within bare metal stents substantially reduces the risk of recurrence.1–3 However, target vessel failure remains a significant clinical problem for some patients. A higher...
Intracoronary radiation therapy (ICRT) for in-stent restenosis within bare metal stents substantially reduces the risk of recurrence.1–3 However, target vessel failure remains a significant clinical problem for some patients. A higher...
Intracoronary radiation therapy...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
John Macdonald, MD, MRCP; Manivannan Srinivasan, MBBS, MRCP; Ranjit S. More, FRCP, MD
Case Example. A 56-year-old man was admitted to the hospital complaining of dull, retrosternal chest pain that had lasted for 2 hours at rest. Over the previous 2 months, he had experienced exertional chest pain episodes that were increasing...
Case Example. A 56-year-old man was admitted to the hospital complaining of dull, retrosternal chest pain that had lasted for 2 hours at rest. Over the previous 2 months, he had experienced exertional chest pain episodes that were increasing...
Case Example. A 56-year-old man...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Joseph R. Carver, MD; Bonnie Ky, MD; Margaret Kasner, MD
von Willebrand disease (vWD) is one of the more common inherited bleeding disorders, with an incidence of up to 1% in the general population.1–3 Along the clinical spectrum are patients without any bleeding manifestations who are incidentally...
von Willebrand disease (vWD) is one of the more common inherited bleeding disorders, with an incidence of up to 1% in the general population.1–3 Along the clinical spectrum are patients without any bleeding manifestations who are incidentally...
von Willebrand disease (vWD) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Feature
08/01/2008
Edward J. Yoon, MD; Bruce N. Brent, MD; Ernest Haeusslein, MD
Case Report. A 60-year-old male presented to the emergency department complaining of acute onset of precordial pain radiating to the left arm and neck. He denied any recent symptoms of exertional or nonexertional chest pain. The patient had...
Case Report. A 60-year-old male presented to the emergency department complaining of acute onset of precordial pain radiating to the left arm and neck. He denied any recent symptoms of exertional or nonexertional chest pain. The patient had...
Case Report. A 60-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology