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Volume 18 - Issue 6 - June, 2006

Review
08/01/2008
Lloyd W. Klein, MD
The elderly patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) poses unique challenges in clinical management. The basic problem is that there are insufficient data from dedicated clinical trials to provide a framework for decision making. Clinical...
The elderly patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) poses unique challenges in clinical management. The basic problem is that there are insufficient data from dedicated clinical trials to provide a framework for decision making. Clinical...
The elderly patient with...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Lloyd W. Klein, MD
Continued (Part II of II) Cardiogenic Shock Although several registries suggest that elderly patients who present with cardiogenic shock have a significant improvement in survival with PCI, neither the SHOCK trial nor the Northern New...
Continued (Part II of II) Cardiogenic Shock Although several registries suggest that elderly patients who present with cardiogenic shock have a significant improvement in survival with PCI, neither the SHOCK trial nor the Northern New...
Continued (Part II of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Thomas A. Hennebry, MB, BCh, BAO, MD; Abdul Rashid, MD; George Dale, MD
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Andre C. Olivier, MD; Jay L. Hollman, MD
Recent case reports of late stent thrombosis following the discontinuation of aspirin have raised the concern that drug-eluting stents might be more prone to this complication. McFadden et al reported on 4 patients, 2 who received a...
Recent case reports of late stent thrombosis following the discontinuation of aspirin have raised the concern that drug-eluting stents might be more prone to this complication. McFadden et al reported on 4 patients, 2 who received a...
Recent case reports of late...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Paul Johnston, RN, MRCP; Roger B. McCorry, MRCP
Case Report. A 43-year-old Caucasian male was admitted with prolonged central chest pain. His initial ECG demonstrated ST depression in leads II, III, aVf and V2–V6. He received aspirin 300 mg, a loading dose of clopidogrel 300 mg (followed...
Case Report. A 43-year-old Caucasian male was admitted with prolonged central chest pain. His initial ECG demonstrated ST depression in leads II, III, aVf and V2–V6. He received aspirin 300 mg, a loading dose of clopidogrel 300 mg (followed...
Case Report. A 43-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Richard G. Bach, MD; Christopher Leach, MD; Simon A. Milov, MD; Bruce D. Lindsay, MD, FHRS
Percutaneous transcatheter alcohol septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) is an effective alternative to septal myectomy for symptomatic patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).1–6 While alleviating symptoms for most...
Percutaneous transcatheter alcohol septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) is an effective alternative to septal myectomy for symptomatic patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).1–6 While alleviating symptoms for most...
Percutaneous transcatheter...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Howard S. Rosman, MD; Thomas P. Davis, MD, FACC; Mouhammed A. Joumaa, MD
Left main coronary artery occlusion is a rare occurrence that is often fatal. It usually manifests as an acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and/or fatal arrhythmias. This circumstance is rarely observed, as most patients...
Left main coronary artery occlusion is a rare occurrence that is often fatal. It usually manifests as an acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and/or fatal arrhythmias. This circumstance is rarely observed, as most patients...
Left main coronary artery...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Abdul Rashid, MD; George Dale, MD; Thomas A. Hennebry, MB, BCh, BAO, MD
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
David Hoelzinger, MD; Ashish Pershad, MD; Shirish Patel, MD
The aim in the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction is the early restoration of TIMI 3 blood flow in the infarct related artery.1 Primary angioplasty during an acute myocardial infarction achieves this objective but is associated...
The aim in the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction is the early restoration of TIMI 3 blood flow in the infarct related artery.1 Primary angioplasty during an acute myocardial infarction achieves this objective but is associated...
The aim in the treatment of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Angel Sánchez-Recalde, MD, PhD; Luis Calvo Orbe, MD; Guillermo Galeote, MD, PhD
Cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction is associated with high mortality.1,2 Early recognition and coronary revascularization are crucial to improve its poor prognosis. Successful early reperfusion of the infarct-related...
Cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction is associated with high mortality.1,2 Early recognition and coronary revascularization are crucial to improve its poor prognosis. Successful early reperfusion of the infarct-related...
Cardiogenic shock complicating...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
Dear Readers, The first of our feature articles in the June issue is from Pierfrancesco Agostoni and colleagues of the University Verona and AZ Middelheim in Antwerp, Belgium and assesses the safety of percutaneous left heart...
Dear Readers, The first of our feature articles in the June issue is from Pierfrancesco Agostoni and colleagues of the University Verona and AZ Middelheim in Antwerp, Belgium and assesses the safety of percutaneous left heart...
Dear Readers, The first of our...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Timothy A. Mixon, MD; Patrick Fitzsimmons, MD
Left main coronary artery stenosis occurs in 3–5% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Percutaneous treatment has been limited by major adverse cardiovascular events during the follow-up period. Studies suggest bare metal stents have...
Left main coronary artery stenosis occurs in 3–5% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Percutaneous treatment has been limited by major adverse cardiovascular events during the follow-up period. Studies suggest bare metal stents have...
Left main coronary artery...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Eisei Yamamoto, MD; Morimasa Takayama, MD; Hitoshi Takano
Exposure to contrast media occasionally induces acute renal disturbance, often called contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).1–3 Although the impairment is transient and function spontaneously recovers in most cases, irreversible damage occurs in...
Exposure to contrast media occasionally induces acute renal disturbance, often called contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).1–3 Although the impairment is transient and function spontaneously recovers in most cases, irreversible damage occurs in...
Exposure to contrast media...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Robert Duerr, MD; Michael Del Core, MD; Karen Wou; Hiep Nguyen, MD; Dominique Fourchy, MD; Ellis Lader, MD; Felix J. Rogers, DO; Thao Huynh, MD; Rashid Chaudhry, MD; Louise Pilote, MD, MPH, PhD; Mark J. Eisenberg, MD, MPH
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08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Karen Wou; Louise Pilote, MD, MPH, PhD; Hiep Nguyen, MD; Mark J. Eisenberg, MD, MPH; Dominique Fourchy, MD; Ellis Lader, MD; Felix J. Rogers, DO; Rashid Chaudhry, MD; Robert Duerr, MD; Michael Del Core, MD; Thao Huynh, MD
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) relieves anginal symptoms and decreases morbidity and mortality in patients suffering from coronary artery disease (CAD).1,2 Unless comorbid diseases are present, guidelines do not recommend the...
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) relieves anginal symptoms and decreases morbidity and mortality in patients suffering from coronary artery disease (CAD).1,2 Unless comorbid diseases are present, guidelines do not recommend the...
Coronary artery bypass graft...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Akil Loli, MD; Rex Liu, MD; Ashish Pershad, MD
Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is present in approximately 30% of diagnostic angiograms. Data suggest that 10-year survival of patients with CTO is improved if the CTO is successfully recanalized.1 Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of a...
Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is present in approximately 30% of diagnostic angiograms. Data suggest that 10-year survival of patients with CTO is improved if the CTO is successfully recanalized.1 Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of a...
Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
Victor M. Mejia, MD; Y. Joseph Woo, MD; Howard C. Herrmann, MD
Case Presentation. A 58-year-old female was transferred from an outside hospital with impending cardiogenic shock and pericardial effusion. She had a history of mitral regurgitation due to myxomatous degeneraton and had undergone complex...
Case Presentation. A 58-year-old female was transferred from an outside hospital with impending cardiogenic shock and pericardial effusion. She had a history of mitral regurgitation due to myxomatous degeneraton and had undergone complex...
Case Presentation. A 58-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Addendum
08/01/2008
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, MD; Takashi Sueda, MD; Mitsunori Okamoto, MD
The online case report with brief review entitled Four Days of Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Support and Sixteen Days of Percutaneous Left Atrium-Artery Bypass: A Case Report of Survival of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Cardiogenic Shock...
The online case report with brief review entitled Four Days of Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Support and Sixteen Days of Percutaneous Left Atrium-Artery Bypass: A Case Report of Survival of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Cardiogenic Shock...
The online case report with...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Addendum
08/01/2008
Shyam Bhakta, MD; Vincent J. Pompili, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Nicholas J. Greco, PhD; Marcie R. Finney; Paul E. Scheid; Robert D. Hoffman, MD, PhD; Matthew E. Joseph; Jason J. Banks; Mary J. Laughlin, MD
The authors of the article cited below, published in the May 2006 issue of the Journal, wish to add the name of Paul E. Scheid to their list of authors whom they inadvertently omitted from the original manuscript. The Safety of Autologous...
The authors of the article cited below, published in the May 2006 issue of the Journal, wish to add the name of Paul E. Scheid to their list of authors whom they inadvertently omitted from the original manuscript. The Safety of Autologous...
The authors of the article cited...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Rosana Hernandez-Antolin, MD, PhD; Raúl Moreno-Gómez, MD, PhD; Benigno Quintero-Moran, MD; Sergio Villarreal, MD; Maria-Jose Perez-Vizcayno, MD; Cesar Conde, MD; Paul Vazquez, MD; Fernando Alfonso, MD, PhD, FESC; Camino Bañuelos, MD; Antonio Fernandez-Ortiz, MD, PhD; Luis Azcona, MD; Javier Escaned, MD, PhD; Carlos Macaya, MD, PhD
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the best reperfusion strategy in patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (AMI).1 This is mainly because it achieves a very high rate of successful recanalization of the...
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the best reperfusion strategy in patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (AMI).1 This is mainly because it achieves a very high rate of successful recanalization of the...
Primary percutaneous coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
William O. Suddath, MD; William W. Chu, MD, PhD; Neil J. Weissman, MD; Ron Waksman, MD; Salah-Eddine Hassani, MD; Zhenyi Xue, MS; Roswitha M. Wolfram, MD; Lowell F. Satler, MD; Pramod K. Kuchulakanti, MD; Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD; Natalie Gevorkian, MD; Augusto D. Pichard, MD, FACC, FSCAI
The major cause of mortality in dialysis patients is attributable to cardiovascular diseases.1,2 The higher prevalence of coronary artery disease in this population is thought to be related to a higher risk factor distribution, platelet...
The major cause of mortality in dialysis patients is attributable to cardiovascular diseases.1,2 The higher prevalence of coronary artery disease in this population is thought to be related to a higher risk factor distribution, platelet...
The major cause of mortality in...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Lloyd W. Klein, MD
The elderly patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) poses unique challenges in clinical management. The basic problem is that there are insufficient data from dedicated clinical trials to provide a framework for decision making. Clinical...
The elderly patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) poses unique challenges in clinical management. The basic problem is that there are insufficient data from dedicated clinical trials to provide a framework for decision making. Clinical...
The elderly patient with...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Lloyd W. Klein, MD
Continued (Part II of II) Cardiogenic Shock Although several registries suggest that elderly patients who present with cardiogenic shock have a significant improvement in survival with PCI, neither the SHOCK trial nor the Northern New...
Continued (Part II of II) Cardiogenic Shock Although several registries suggest that elderly patients who present with cardiogenic shock have a significant improvement in survival with PCI, neither the SHOCK trial nor the Northern New...
Continued (Part II of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Gionata Molinari, MD; Paolo Tosi, MD; Marialuisa De Benedictis, MD; Silvia Quintarelli, MD; Giorgio Morando, MD; Gabriele Luigi Gasparini, MD; Marco Turri, MD; Pierfrancesco Agostoni, MD, PhD; Maurizio Anselmi, MD; Piero Zardini, MD
Percutaneous left heart catheterization, including pressure measurements, left ventriculography, coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), is nowadays considered the gold standard for the diagnosis, evaluation and...
Percutaneous left heart catheterization, including pressure measurements, left ventriculography, coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), is nowadays considered the gold standard for the diagnosis, evaluation and...
Percutaneous left heart...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Rasih Atilla Ener, MD; Nelson M. Wolf, MD; Nichole Bruno, MD; Daniel Dadourian, MD; James A. Burke, MD, PhD; William A. Van Decker, MD; Michael Styler, MD; David Topolsky, MD
Bleeding into the alveoli from disruption of the pulmonary capillary lining may cause alveolar hemorrhage and can result from different mechanisms:1–4 1. Damage secondary to immunologic mechanisms, often associated with a pulmonary...
Bleeding into the alveoli from disruption of the pulmonary capillary lining may cause alveolar hemorrhage and can result from different mechanisms:1–4 1. Damage secondary to immunologic mechanisms, often associated with a pulmonary...
Bleeding into the alveoli from...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Robert Chilton, DO, FACC; Janet Hays, MD; Michael Lujan
Aortic stenosis is one of the most common forms of valvular heart disease seen in adults. Despite advances in echocardiography, the evaluation of aortic stenosis continues to be a frequent procedure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory....
Aortic stenosis is one of the most common forms of valvular heart disease seen in adults. Despite advances in echocardiography, the evaluation of aortic stenosis continues to be a frequent procedure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory....
Aortic stenosis is one of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Ronald J. Krone, MD
In this issue of the Journal, Hays, Lujan, and Chilton describe techniques to accurately measure aortic valve gradient during cardiac catheterization.1 While noninvasive cardiologists may consider this whole discussion a waste of time — “old...
In this issue of the Journal, Hays, Lujan, and Chilton describe techniques to accurately measure aortic valve gradient during cardiac catheterization.1 While noninvasive cardiologists may consider this whole discussion a waste of time — “old...
In this issue of the Journal,...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology