Volume 19 - Issue 1 - January, 2007
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes six original research articles, a review article, three submissions for Rapid Communication, two Clinical Images, and seven online case reports. These case reports...
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes six original research articles, a review article, three submissions for Rapid Communication, two Clinical Images, and seven online case reports. These case reports...
Dear Readers,
This issue of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
William B. Hillegass, MD, MPH, FACC; Sanjay Rajdev, MD; Vijay K. Misra, MD
Success of high-risk interventional procedures depends upon periprocedural hemodynamic stability. The TandemHeart™ (Cardiac Assist, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a percutaneous nonpulsatile centrifugal left ventricular (LV) assist device...
Success of high-risk interventional procedures depends upon periprocedural hemodynamic stability. The TandemHeart™ (Cardiac Assist, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a percutaneous nonpulsatile centrifugal left ventricular (LV) assist device...
Success of high-risk...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Joseph G. Murphy, MD; Richard J. Gumina, MD, PhD; Mark J. Callahan, MD
Case Report. A 66-year-old female presented with new-onset angina and heart failure. Electrocardiography demonstrated chronic atria fibrillation and left axis deviation. Echocardiography demonstrated mild global left ventricular hypokinesia...
Case Report. A 66-year-old female presented with new-onset angina and heart failure. Electrocardiography demonstrated chronic atria fibrillation and left axis deviation. Echocardiography demonstrated mild global left ventricular hypokinesia...
Case Report. A 66-year-old...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Wing-hing Chow, MBBS, FRCP; Man-Hong Jim, MD; Hee-Hwa Ho, MD
The combination of drug-eluting stents and the crush technique with final kissing balloon inflation for the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions is associated with superior clinical and angiographic outcomes.1,2 However, the crush...
The combination of drug-eluting stents and the crush technique with final kissing balloon inflation for the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions is associated with superior clinical and angiographic outcomes.1,2 However, the crush...
The combination of drug-eluting...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Christian Butter, MD; Hans-Heinrich Minden, MD; Sören Just, MD
Injury of a native coronary vessel during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is very rare. We report on a 76-year-old patient who developed a large pseudoaneurysm of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) following CABG.
The patient...
Injury of a native coronary vessel during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is very rare. We report on a 76-year-old patient who developed a large pseudoaneurysm of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) following CABG.
The patient...
Injury of a native coronary...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Madhu Salvaji, DO; Manu Rajachandran, MD; Kelly Klym, MS, PA-C
Pseudoaneurysm formation after vascular reconstruction is a rarely encountered problem in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. It has most commonly been described in the vascular surgical literature as a delayed complication of lower...
Pseudoaneurysm formation after vascular reconstruction is a rarely encountered problem in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. It has most commonly been described in the vascular surgical literature as a delayed complication of lower...
Pseudoaneurysm formation after...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Vijay Kumar Trehan, MD, DM; Girish M. Nair, MP, MD, DM; Mohit D. Gupta, MD, DM
Subacute stent thrombosis (SAT), though less common in the era of dual antiplatelet therapy, continues to produce serious clinical consequences including major myocardial infarction and death.1 The treatment modalities described in the...
Subacute stent thrombosis (SAT), though less common in the era of dual antiplatelet therapy, continues to produce serious clinical consequences including major myocardial infarction and death.1 The treatment modalities described in the...
Subacute stent thrombosis (SAT),...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
James C. Blankenship, MD; Farhan Aslam, MD, BA; Elias A. Iliadis, MD
Standard therapy for cryptogenic stroke in the setting of patent foramen ovale (PFO) includes antiplatelet medications and long-term anticoagulation with warfarin. Oral anticoagulation increases the risk of bleeding complications and may not...
Standard therapy for cryptogenic stroke in the setting of patent foramen ovale (PFO) includes antiplatelet medications and long-term anticoagulation with warfarin. Oral anticoagulation increases the risk of bleeding complications and may not...
Standard therapy for cryptogenic...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Bernhard Meier, MD, FACC, FESC
The discipline of catheter-based closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) is still in its “childhood”. Ushered in by the seminal paper from Bridges et al in 1992,1 it is still hampered by amateurism, ghosts of old misconceptions, apprehension...
The discipline of catheter-based closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) is still in its “childhood”. Ushered in by the seminal paper from Bridges et al in 1992,1 it is still hampered by amateurism, ghosts of old misconceptions, apprehension...
The discipline of catheter-based...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
Garikoitz Lasa, MD; Juan Rondán, MD; Dae Hyun Lee, MD; Cesar Moris, MD, PhD; Iñigo Lozano Martinez-Luengas, MD, PhD, FESC; Pablo Avanzas, MD, PhD, FESC
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in bifurcations represents 15–18% of all lesions treated1 and has traditionally been associated with more complexity and restenosis. It has been demonstrated with bare-metal stents (BMS) that the...
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in bifurcations represents 15–18% of all lesions treated1 and has traditionally been associated with more complexity and restenosis. It has been demonstrated with bare-metal stents (BMS) that the...
Percutaneous coronary...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
Nicolas W. Shammas, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI, FACP, FSVM
Trifurcating coronary artery disease is a complex atherosclerotic process involving the origin of one or more of three side branches (SB) arising from a main coronary artery vessel or trunk (MT), with or without involvement of the MT itself....
Trifurcating coronary artery disease is a complex atherosclerotic process involving the origin of one or more of three side branches (SB) arising from a main coronary artery vessel or trunk (MT), with or without involvement of the MT itself....
Trifurcating coronary artery...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
Laurence M. Schneider, MBBCh, FRACP, MD; Gary S. Roubin, MD, PhD
Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is now widely utilized as a less invasive alternative to carotid endarterectomy for the prevention of stroke caused by extracranial bifurcation carotid artery stenosis. The procedure involves diagnostic...
Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is now widely utilized as a less invasive alternative to carotid endarterectomy for the prevention of stroke caused by extracranial bifurcation carotid artery stenosis. The procedure involves diagnostic...
Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, MBBS, MRCP; Adel Msairi, MBBCh, MRCP; Gershan K. Davis, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FACC, FESC
Incidence
Coronary angiography has been and currently remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. It is an invasive procedure and is thus associated with various risks such as vascular and hemodynamic...
Incidence
Coronary angiography has been and currently remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. It is an invasive procedure and is thus associated with various risks such as vascular and hemodynamic...
Incidence
Coronary angiography...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI; Subhash Banerjee, MD, FSCAI; Michele Roesle, RN, BSN, MD
A 70-year-old male presented with left buttock claudication. Diagnostic angiography showed a 90% left external iliac artery stenosis (Figure 1A). The left external iliac artery lesion was crossed with a 0.035 Storq guidewire (Cordis Corp.,...
A 70-year-old male presented with left buttock claudication. Diagnostic angiography showed a 90% left external iliac artery stenosis (Figure 1A). The left external iliac artery lesion was crossed with a 0.035 Storq guidewire (Cordis Corp.,...
A 70-year-old male presented...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
Spyros Kokolis, MD; Alan Feit, MD; Jonathan D. Marmur, MD, FACC
Coronary air embolism is a recognized complication of cardiac catheterization occurring in 0.1–0.3% of cases.1 Sequelae range from various clinically-insignificant events to an acute coronary syndrome and death.2 The possible mechanisms of...
Coronary air embolism is a recognized complication of cardiac catheterization occurring in 0.1–0.3% of cases.1 Sequelae range from various clinically-insignificant events to an acute coronary syndrome and death.2 The possible mechanisms of...
Coronary air embolism is a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Shigeru Saito, MD; Saeko Takahashi, MD; Hideaki Kaneda, MD, PhD
Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) are common and are found in approximately one-third of patients with significant coronary disease who undergo angiography.1 Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of revascularization of CTOs, with...
Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) are common and are found in approximately one-third of patients with significant coronary disease who undergo angiography.1 Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of revascularization of CTOs, with...
Chronic total occlusions (CTOs)...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Jung-Han Yoon, MD; Jang-Young Kim, MD; Byung-Su Yoo, MD; Kyung-Hoon Choe, MD; Seung-Hwan Lee, MD
There has been growing interest in transradial coronary procedures due to the rare incidence of complications at this puncture site, elimination of the need to limit the patient’s activity and the possibility of early patient discharge.1,2...
There has been growing interest in transradial coronary procedures due to the rare incidence of complications at this puncture site, elimination of the need to limit the patient’s activity and the possibility of early patient discharge.1,2...
There has been growing interest...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Hajime Kirigaya, MD; Kazuyuki Nagashima, MD; Yuji Oikawa, MD; Junji Yajima, MD; Masafumi Akabane, MD; Ryuichi Funada, MD; Shunsuke Matsuno, MD; Tadanori Aizawa, MD
Recently, it was reported that aggressive and optimal directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) can be performed with favorable outcomes.1–4 The benefit of DCA is thought to be the debulking of plaques in...
Recently, it was reported that aggressive and optimal directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) can be performed with favorable outcomes.1–4 The benefit of DCA is thought to be the debulking of plaques in...
Recently, it was reported that...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Todd J. Cohen, MD, FACC, FHRS; Weilun Quan, PhD; Alexandru Mitrache, PA, RPAC; Ronald Lo, MD
Electrocautery has long been described to generate electromagnetic interference (EMI) and oversensing by implanted pacemakers and defibrillators. Electrocautery is commonly used during surgical procedures involving implantation and...
Electrocautery has long been described to generate electromagnetic interference (EMI) and oversensing by implanted pacemakers and defibrillators. Electrocautery is commonly used during surgical procedures involving implantation and...
Electrocautery has long been...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Avraham Lorber, MD; Sergey Yalonetsky, MD; Yitzhack Schwartz, MD
Secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common congenital heart defect first diagnosed in adults, even late in life,1 and it may be successfully closed percutaneously. Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a remnant of fetal circulation...
Secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common congenital heart defect first diagnosed in adults, even late in life,1 and it may be successfully closed percutaneously. Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a remnant of fetal circulation...
Secundum atrial septal defect...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Ray V. Matthews, MD; David M. Shavelle, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Shahrzad Shareghi, MD; Leila Rasouli, MD; Steven Burstein, MD
The initial interest in the late 1980s in balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) for adults with calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was subsequently tempered by multiple studies demonstrating high rates of restenosis and lack of a favorable impact on...
The initial interest in the late 1980s in balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) for adults with calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was subsequently tempered by multiple studies demonstrating high rates of restenosis and lack of a favorable impact on...
The initial interest in the late...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
