Volume 19 - Issue 3 - March, 2007
Case Report
08/01/2008
Ashish Dua, MD; Madhavi Kadiyala, MD; H. Scott Beasley, MD
Case Report. A 50-year-old Caucasian male with no significant past medical history presented to our institution with sudden onset of shortness of breath. He admitted to having exertional chest pressure and shortness of breath for a few years....
Case Report. A 50-year-old Caucasian male with no significant past medical history presented to our institution with sudden onset of shortness of breath. He admitted to having exertional chest pressure and shortness of breath for a few years....
Case Report. A 50-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Antonio Colombo, MD; Simon Corbett, MD; Azeem Latib, MD, BCh, MBBCh
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) remain one of the most technically challenging areas of coronary intervention. As a result, new innovative techniques are continually being developed in an effort to improve the procedural success rate of CTO...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) remain one of the most technically challenging areas of coronary intervention. As a result, new innovative techniques are continually being developed in an effort to improve the procedural success rate of CTO...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
David R. Holmes, Jr., MD
We’re going to move on to the second session entitled: Contemporary Prevention, Management and Treatment of Stroke — Who Will Treat Acute Stroke in 2010 and How Will It Be Treated?The data on this first slide (Figure 1) show the magnitude of...
We’re going to move on to the second session entitled: Contemporary Prevention, Management and Treatment of Stroke — Who Will Treat Acute Stroke in 2010 and How Will It Be Treated?The data on this first slide (Figure 1) show the magnitude of...
We’re going to move on to the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
Frank J. Criado, MD
I’m going to give you a perspective on where we see the current state of carotid artery stenting from the regulatory and reimbursement perspectives, and perhaps a bit of technical unmet needs and future prospects. Obviously, this is going to...
I’m going to give you a perspective on where we see the current state of carotid artery stenting from the regulatory and reimbursement perspectives, and perhaps a bit of technical unmet needs and future prospects. Obviously, this is going to...
I’m going to give you a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
Renato DeRita, MS
First of all, I would like to thank the organizers of this meeting, particularly Dr. Michael Cowley, who asked me to attend. It’s an honor to be here. As a biochemist who has spent most of his life with his head in the “cell-culture”...
First of all, I would like to thank the organizers of this meeting, particularly Dr. Michael Cowley, who asked me to attend. It’s an honor to be here. As a biochemist who has spent most of his life with his head in the “cell-culture”...
First of all, I would like to...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
L. Nelson Hopkins, MD
When I think about the way we treat carotid disease, I see a great example of multiple specialties that are not working together. Everybody has something to offer the specialty of carotid stenting, and everybody, in my view, needs to possess...
When I think about the way we treat carotid disease, I see a great example of multiple specialties that are not working together. Everybody has something to offer the specialty of carotid stenting, and everybody, in my view, needs to possess...
When I think about the way we...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
L. Nelson Hopkins, MD
David Holmes really set the stage with his discussion, but let me also summarize what stroke means today. After suffering a major stroke, one-third of patients will recover, one-third will die, and one-third will be wrecked; it’s the latter...
David Holmes really set the stage with his discussion, but let me also summarize what stroke means today. After suffering a major stroke, one-third of patients will recover, one-third will die, and one-third will be wrecked; it’s the latter...
David Holmes really set the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letters to the Editor
08/01/2008
Eleftherios Tsiamis, MD; Christodoulos Stefanadis, MD; Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article recently published in the Journal by Worthley et al regarding the use of the Radi PressureWire® high-sensitivity thermistor (Radi Medical Systems, Inc., Uppsala, Sweden) for the detection...
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article recently published in the Journal by Worthley et al regarding the use of the Radi PressureWire® high-sensitivity thermistor (Radi Medical Systems, Inc., Uppsala, Sweden) for the detection...
Dear Editor, We read with great...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letters to the Editor
08/01/2008
Stephen G. Worthley, MBBS, PhD, MD, PhDH, MB, BS ; Matthew I. Worthley, MBBS, PhD; Ian T. Meredith, BSc, PhD, MBBS, FRACP, MD
We thank (the authors of the letter) for their comments about our study in the Journal,1 and it seems they essentially agree with our conclusions. However, they raise some specific points to add weight to the argument that the main reason we...
We thank (the authors of the letter) for their comments about our study in the Journal,1 and it seems they essentially agree with our conclusions. However, they raise some specific points to add weight to the argument that the main reason we...
We thank (the authors of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Paul C. Ho, MD, MSc
The recently FDA-approved Tornus® penetration catheter (Asahi Intecc, Aichi, Japan) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of severe coronary artery lesions and chronic total occlusions when they are first crossed by coronary...
The recently FDA-approved Tornus® penetration catheter (Asahi Intecc, Aichi, Japan) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of severe coronary artery lesions and chronic total occlusions when they are first crossed by coronary...
The recently FDA-approved...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC
Case Report. A 75-year-old male presented to our catheterization laboratory with exertional shortness of breath (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class 2–3) and a positive dipyridamole nuclear scan with ischemia in the infero-lateral territory...
Case Report. A 75-year-old male presented to our catheterization laboratory with exertional shortness of breath (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class 2–3) and a positive dipyridamole nuclear scan with ischemia in the infero-lateral territory...
Case Report. A 75-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Mihai Iacob, MD; Florina Pinte, MD; Ion Tintoiu, MD
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are occasionally reported among patients undergoing coronary angiography, with an incidence varying from 0.3% to approximate 5%.1,2 More than half of CAAs are due to coronary atherosclerosis, but occasionally...
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are occasionally reported among patients undergoing coronary angiography, with an incidence varying from 0.3% to approximate 5%.1,2 More than half of CAAs are due to coronary atherosclerosis, but occasionally...
Coronary artery aneurysms...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Richard Kobza, MD; Peiman Jamshidi, MD, FESC; Paul Erne, MD, FESC
We report a case on the use of percutaneous thrombus aspiration of pulmonary artery with an Aspirex® 11 Fr catheter (Straub Medical, Wangs, Switzerland) followed by local fibrinolytic therapy to treat a submassive pulmonary embolism (PE) in...
We report a case on the use of percutaneous thrombus aspiration of pulmonary artery with an Aspirex® 11 Fr catheter (Straub Medical, Wangs, Switzerland) followed by local fibrinolytic therapy to treat a submassive pulmonary embolism (PE) in...
We report a case on the use of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Yoshinobu Murasato, MD, PhD; Kyoko Okamatsu, MD
Case Presentation. An 82-year-old female with several coronary risk factors was referred to our hospital for management of angina pectoris. She had undergone unsuccessful primary angioplasty for inferior myocardial infarction 7 years earlier,...
Case Presentation. An 82-year-old female with several coronary risk factors was referred to our hospital for management of angina pectoris. She had undergone unsuccessful primary angioplasty for inferior myocardial infarction 7 years earlier,...
Case Presentation. An...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
Yoshio Taketani, MD; Hideaki Kaneda, MD, PhD; Shigeru Saito, MD
Case Presentation. A 43-year-old male with a history of myocardial infarction and primary stenting (left circumflex artery in July 1997 and right coronary artery in September 2005) was admitted to undergo angioplasty for his totally...
Case Presentation. A 43-year-old male with a history of myocardial infarction and primary stenting (left circumflex artery in July 1997 and right coronary artery in September 2005) was admitted to undergo angioplasty for his totally...
Case Presentation. A 43-year-old...
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 coincides with the 56th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology and includes original research articles, commentaries, letters to the editor, articles from...
Dear Readers,This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology coincides with the 56th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology and includes original research articles, commentaries, letters to the editor, articles from...
Dear Readers,This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Ruchira Glaser, MD, MSCE; Howard C. Herrmann, MD
It is increasingly apparent that women and men with coronary artery disease differ in important ways including comorbidities, success and complications of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and in rates of death and nonfatal myocardial...
It is increasingly apparent that women and men with coronary artery disease differ in important ways including comorbidities, success and complications of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and in rates of death and nonfatal myocardial...
It is increasingly apparent that...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Akiko Matsuo, MD; Naoto Inoue, MD; Kenji Suzuki, MD, PhD; Reo Nakamura, MD; Hiroshi Fujita, MD; Shinji Miki, MD; Yoshiaki Yokoi, MD
Early reperfusion is critically important in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as a reperfusion strategy in AMI has been established. Despite the success of early...
Early reperfusion is critically important in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as a reperfusion strategy in AMI has been established. Despite the success of early...
Early reperfusion is critically...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
Johnnie Knoblauch, CVRT; Cecil Coghlan, MD; Vijay K. Misra, MD; William B. Hillegass, MD, MPH, FACC; Himanshu Gupta, MD; Raghunath Katragadda, MD
Coronary aneurysms are a rare finding in adults undergoing angiography. There have been very few reports of coronary artery aneurysm rupture reaching medical attention. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of coronary aneurysm...
Coronary aneurysms are a rare finding in adults undergoing angiography. There have been very few reports of coronary artery aneurysm rupture reaching medical attention. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of coronary aneurysm...
Coronary aneurysms are a rare...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
Massimo Chessa, MD, PhD; Gianfranco Butera, MD, PhD; Mario Carminati, MD
The secundum type atrial septal defect is the fourth most common congenital heart defect, with an incidence of 3.78 per 10,000 live births,1 corresponding to 5.9% of the diagnosed congenital heart disease in children.2 Over the past decade,...
The secundum type atrial septal defect is the fourth most common congenital heart defect, with an incidence of 3.78 per 10,000 live births,1 corresponding to 5.9% of the diagnosed congenital heart disease in children.2 Over the past decade,...
The secundum type atrial...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Kul Aggarwal, MD; Vishal Gupta, MD, MPH
The introduction of coronary stenting marked a major milestone in percutaneous coronary interventions. Acute or threatened closure of the artery was once the most serious complication of conventional coronary balloon angioplasty. It was...
The introduction of coronary stenting marked a major milestone in percutaneous coronary interventions. Acute or threatened closure of the artery was once the most serious complication of conventional coronary balloon angioplasty. It was...
The introduction of coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Etsuo Tsuchikane, MD, PhD; Takeshi Suzuki, MD, PhD; Osamu Katoh, MD
The advent of drug-eluting stents (DES) has brought about a revolutionary change in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Randomized clinical trials of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) have clearly demonstrated the agent’s efficacy in...
The advent of drug-eluting stents (DES) has brought about a revolutionary change in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Randomized clinical trials of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) have clearly demonstrated the agent’s efficacy in...
The advent of drug-eluting...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Albert P. Sheperd, PhD; Beth M. Terpolilli, BA; John M. Steinke, PhD
The classic oxygen-based Fick Principle has long been considered the gold standard for measuring cardiac output, but its rigorous implementation is being used less and less frequently during cardiac catheterization and in intensive care...
The classic oxygen-based Fick Principle has long been considered the gold standard for measuring cardiac output, but its rigorous implementation is being used less and less frequently during cardiac catheterization and in intensive care...
The classic oxygen-based Fick...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Jonathan D. Marmur, MD, FACC; Erdal Cavusoglu, MD; Luther T. Clark, MD; Shyam Poludasu, MD
Multiple studies have demonstrated that women are at increased risk for in-hospital mortality, stroke, vascular complications, repeat revascularization, and same-admission coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) after percutaneous...
Multiple studies have demonstrated that women are at increased risk for in-hospital mortality, stroke, vascular complications, repeat revascularization, and same-admission coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) after percutaneous...
Multiple studies have...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Carlo Vigna, MD; Cesare M. Amico, MD; Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai, MD, PhD; Pompeo Lanna, MD; Mario Stanislao, MD; Tiberio Santoro, MD; Guido Valle, MD; Raffaele Fanelli, MD; Francesco Loperfido, MD; Mario Attilio Mazzari, MD
The treatment of bifurcation stenoses (BS) by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is challenging due to their lower procedural success and higher restenosis rates compared with nonbifurcation coronary stenoses.1,2 Although dedicated...
The treatment of bifurcation stenoses (BS) by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is challenging due to their lower procedural success and higher restenosis rates compared with nonbifurcation coronary stenoses.1,2 Although dedicated...
The treatment of bifurcation...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
James C. Blankenship, MD; Thomas A. Haldis, DO; Bradley Fenster, MD; Kirk Gavlick, MD; Karan D. Singh, MD; Elias A. Iliadis, MD
Optimal angiographic success after coronary artery stenting, defined as <20% residual stenosis by quantitative coronary analysis (QCA), is frequently obtained with high-pressure inflations.1 This angiographic endpoint has been associated...
Optimal angiographic success after coronary artery stenting, defined as <20% residual stenosis by quantitative coronary analysis (QCA), is frequently obtained with high-pressure inflations.1 This angiographic endpoint has been associated...
Optimal angiographic success...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Paul C. Ho, MD, MSc
Percutaneous coronary intervention of bifurcation lesions poses technical challenges beyond conventional approaches. The difficulties lie with various anatomic variants including the takeoff angle, size and presence of disease of the side...
Percutaneous coronary intervention of bifurcation lesions poses technical challenges beyond conventional approaches. The difficulties lie with various anatomic variants including the takeoff angle, size and presence of disease of the side...
Percutaneous coronary...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
