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Volume 19 - Issue 12 - December, 2007

Original Contribution
Kissing Balloon Technique within a 5 Fr Guiding Catheter
Using 0.010 Inch Guidewires and 0.010 Inch Guidewire-
Compatible Ball
08/01/2008
Fuminobu Yoshimachi, MD, PhD; Motomaru Masutani, MD, PhD; Takashi Matsukage, MD, PhD; Shigeru Saito, MD; Yuji Ikari, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) devices have been getting smaller, especially guide catheters. In the 1990s, an 8 Fr guide catheter was necessary for stent implantation in a simple coronary lesion. At present, a 6 Fr guide catheter...
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) devices have been getting smaller, especially guide catheters. In the 1990s, an 8 Fr guide catheter was necessary for stent implantation in a simple coronary lesion. At present, a 6 Fr guide catheter...
Percutaneous coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Continuing Education
Pharmacoinvasive Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome:
Incorporating the 2007 ACC/AHA Guidelines
08/01/2008
Marc S. Cohen, MD; Jose G. Diez, MD; Sunil V. Rao, MD, FACC, FSCAI; James J. Ferguson, III, MD; James P. Zidar, MD; Glenn N. Levine, MD; David A. Morrow, MD, MPH
Every year, more than 1 million patients are admitted to a hospital with a diagnosis of unstable angina or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (UA/NSTEMI).1 Relative to acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), patients with...
Every year, more than 1 million patients are admitted to a hospital with a diagnosis of unstable angina or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (UA/NSTEMI).1 Relative to acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), patients with...
Every year, more than 1 million...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
Transradial Access in an Occluded Radial Artery: New Technique
08/01/2008
Samir B. Pancholy, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI
Transradial access has gained popularity over the past decade due to its benefits such as improved patient comfort and decrease in access site bleeding complications. It is limited by difficulties that arise as a result of spasm as well as...
Transradial access has gained popularity over the past decade due to its benefits such as improved patient comfort and decrease in access site bleeding complications. It is limited by difficulties that arise as a result of spasm as well as...
Transradial access has gained...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial Message
Dec-07
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, a Rapid Communication selection, as well as the third update of The CATH (Cardiac Catheterization and Antithrombotic Therapy in the Hospital) Clinical...
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, a Rapid Communication selection, as well as the third update of The CATH (Cardiac Catheterization and Antithrombotic Therapy in the Hospital) Clinical...
This issue of the Journal of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Impact of Remodeling on Cardiac Events in Patients with
Angiographically Mild Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
08/01/2008
Neil J. Weissman, MD; Ron Waksman, MD; Gary S. Mintz, MD; Lowell F. Satler, MD; Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD; Augusto D. Pichard, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Young Joon Hong, MD; Sang Wook Kim, MD; Li Lu, MS; Anh B. Bui, MD; William O. Suddath, MD
Arterial remodeling is the geometric alteration of the arterial wall in response to atherogenesis. During the development and progression of atherosclerosis, the external elastic membrane cross-sectional area (EEM CSA) may increase (termed...
Arterial remodeling is the geometric alteration of the arterial wall in response to atherogenesis. During the development and progression of atherosclerosis, the external elastic membrane cross-sectional area (EEM CSA) may increase (termed...
Arterial remodeling is the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Percutaneous Closure of a Secundum Atrial Septal Defect in
Elderly Patients
08/01/2008
Sergey Yalonetsky, MD; Avraham Lorber, MD
Patients and Methods We retrospectively reviewed all patients > 60 years of age who underwent percutaneous ASD closure under our supervision since 1998. All patients underwent baseline clinical and echocardiographic evaluation including...
Patients and Methods We retrospectively reviewed all patients > 60 years of age who underwent percutaneous ASD closure under our supervision since 1998. All patients underwent baseline clinical and echocardiographic evaluation including...
Patients and Methods We...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
Transcatheter Closure of the Atrial Septal Defect in the Elderly
08/01/2008
Satindir K. Sandhu, MD
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is the third most common adult congenital heart defect1 and was described by Leonardo Da Vince in 1513 as “I have found from a, left auricle, to b, right auricle, the perforating channel from a to b.”2 The majority...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is the third most common adult congenital heart defect1 and was described by Leonardo Da Vince in 1513 as “I have found from a, left auricle, to b, right auricle, the perforating channel from a to b.”2 The majority...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Characterization of Late Incomplete Stent Apposition: A
Comparison among Bare-Metal Stents, Intracoronary Radiation
and Siroli
08/01/2008
Brian K. Courtney, MD; Ryota Sakurai, MD; Mamoo Nakamura, MD; Junya Ako, MD, PhD; Hiroyuki Okura, MD, PhD; Yasuhiro Honda, MD; Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD; Katsuhisa Waseda, MD, PhD; Akiyoshi Miyazawa, MD; Ichizo Tsujino, MD, PhD; Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD
Recent studies have shown that late incomplete stent apposition (LISA) develops following implantation of conventional bare-metal stents (BMS), drug-eluting stents (DES) or adjunctive intracoronary radiation (IR).1–6 While the clinical...
Recent studies have shown that late incomplete stent apposition (LISA) develops following implantation of conventional bare-metal stents (BMS), drug-eluting stents (DES) or adjunctive intracoronary radiation (IR).1–6 While the clinical...
Recent studies have shown that...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
Two “Buddies” May Be Better than One: Use of Two Buddy Wires to Expand an Underexpanded Left Main Coronary Stent
09/06/2009
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI; Subhash Banerjee, MD, FSCAI; Jason B. Lindsey, MD
ABSTRACT: Stent underexpansion is a catastrophic complication of stent implantation that can usually be treated with high-pressure balloon dilatation. We report a case of emergency, unprotected distal left main coronary artery stenting, in...
ABSTRACT: Stent underexpansion is a catastrophic complication of stent implantation that can usually be treated with high-pressure balloon dilatation. We report a case of emergency, unprotected distal left main coronary artery stenting, in...
ABSTRACT: Stent underexpansion...
09/06/2009
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
Use of SafeCut Balloon‚Ñ¢ for Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis of a Previously Underexpanded (Full title below)
09/06/2009
Yoritaka Otsuka, MD; Yoichiro Kasahara; Atsushi Kawamura, MD
ABSTRACT: Calcified lesions are a cause of stent underexpansion which significantly increases the subsequent risks of in-stent restenosis and thrombosis, even when drug-eluting stents are used. In this report, we describe a novel balloon...
ABSTRACT: Calcified lesions are a cause of stent underexpansion which significantly increases the subsequent risks of in-stent restenosis and thrombosis, even when drug-eluting stents are used. In this report, we describe a novel balloon...
ABSTRACT: Calcified lesions are...
09/06/2009
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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Thrombectomy
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Dr. Annapoorna Kini (left) and her team outside of The Samuel Fineman Cardiac Catheterization Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
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