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Volume 20 - Issue 12 - December, 2008

Case Report
12/08/2008
William Kokotos, MD, PhD; Roger S. Kersten, DO, FACC; Todd J. Cohen, MD, FACC, FHRS
Author Affiliations: From the Electrophysiology Department, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted May 30, 2008, provisional...
Author Affiliations: From the Electrophysiology Department, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted May 30, 2008, provisional...
Author Affiliations: From the...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/08/2008
Luke K. Kim, MD; Chiu Wong, MD; Maria Karas, MD
Author Affiliations: From the Division of Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted June 30,...
Author Affiliations: From the Division of Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted June 30,...
Author Affiliations: From the...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/08/2008
Jon Suh, MD; Yoon Haeng Cho, MD, PhD; Nae-Hee Lee, MD, PhD
Accompanied by Multiple Complications in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Author Affiliations: From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, SoonChunHyang University Bucheon Hospital, University of SoonChunHyang College of...
Accompanied by Multiple Complications in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Author Affiliations: From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, SoonChunHyang University Bucheon Hospital, University of SoonChunHyang College of...
Accompanied by Multiple...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/08/2008
Mark A. Walsh, MD; Mark Adrian Summut, MD, MRCP; Andrew Cassar, MD, MRCP; Herbert Felice, MD
Author Affiliations: From the Cardiology Department, Mater Dei Hospital, Tal-Qroqq, Malta. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted April 25, 2008, provisional acceptance given May 8,...
Author Affiliations: From the Cardiology Department, Mater Dei Hospital, Tal-Qroqq, Malta. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted April 25, 2008, provisional acceptance given May 8,...
Author Affiliations: From the...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/08/2008
Raúl Moreno-Gómez, MD, PhD; David Dobarro, MD; Roberto Martín-Reyes, MD
Author Affiliations: From the Division of Interventional Cardiology. University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted April 30, 2008, provisional...
Author Affiliations: From the Division of Interventional Cardiology. University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted April 30, 2008, provisional...
Author Affiliations: From the...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/08/2008
Gianfranco Butera, MD, PhD; Mario Carminati, MD; Giuseppe Pome, MD
Author Affiliations: From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, San Donato Milanese, Italy. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted January 2, 2008,...
Author Affiliations: From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, San Donato Milanese, Italy. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted January 2, 2008,...
Author Affiliations: From the...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/08/2008
William K.K. Hui, MBBS, FRCP, FACC, FHKAM, FHKCP; Keysun Alizadehranjbar, MD, FESC; P. K. Cheung, MD, FRCPC
Author Affiliations: From the Interventional Cardiology Research Group, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted March 25, 2008,...
Author Affiliations: From the Interventional Cardiology Research Group, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted March 25, 2008,...
Author Affiliations: From the...
12/08/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
STEMI Interventions
12/02/2008
P. Syamasundar Rao, MD, FACC
The incidence of congenital heart defects (CHD) is approximately 8 per 1,000 live births. With the advances in the diagnosis and management of CHD, a large number of these children survive into adulthood. The current estimate of adults with...
The incidence of congenital heart defects (CHD) is approximately 8 per 1,000 live births. With the advances in the diagnosis and management of CHD, a large number of these children survive into adulthood. The current estimate of adults with...
The incidence of congenital...
12/02/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editor's Message
12/02/2008
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology continues our series of special focus sections to provide a more in-depth examination of important topics in cardiovascular medicine. The special section for this issue includes...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology continues our series of special focus sections to provide a more in-depth examination of important topics in cardiovascular medicine. The special section for this issue includes...
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
12/02/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
12/02/2008
Matthew Purvis, MD
Case Presentation. A 54-year-old male with a history of hyperlipidemia was referred to our institution for evaluation of chest pain. The patient developed chest discomfort in the setting of atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular...
Case Presentation. A 54-year-old male with a history of hyperlipidemia was referred to our institution for evaluation of chest pain. The patient developed chest discomfort in the setting of atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular...
Case Presentation. A 54-year-old...
12/02/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
12/02/2008
Vishal Gupta, MD, MPH; Marc Del Rosario, MD; Nipun Arora, MD
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a major public health problem that is largely underrecognized. Surgical and medical advances over the past decades have dramatically improved the once bleak prognosis of patients with CHD. Eighty-five percent...
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a major public health problem that is largely underrecognized. Surgical and medical advances over the past decades have dramatically improved the once bleak prognosis of patients with CHD. Eighty-five percent...
Congenital heart disease (CHD)...
12/02/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/02/2008
Timur Timurkaynak, MD; Murat Ozdemir, MD; Sedat Turkoglu, MD; Serhat Balcioglu, MD
From the Right Coronary Artery: A Case Report ABSTRACT: Dual left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) originating from the left main stem and the right coronary artery (RCA) (Type IV dual LAD) is a very rare coronary artery anomaly....
From the Right Coronary Artery: A Case Report ABSTRACT: Dual left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) originating from the left main stem and the right coronary artery (RCA) (Type IV dual LAD) is a very rare coronary artery anomaly....
From the Right Coronary Artery:...
12/02/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
12/02/2008
Paul T.L. Chiam, MBBS, MRCP; Laurence M. Schneider, MBBCh, FRACP, MD; Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure is increasingly performed for a variety of different conditions and is usually relatively straightforward, with a low adverse event rate and virtually no mortality. In cases with a...
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure is increasingly performed for a variety of different conditions and is usually relatively straightforward, with a low adverse event rate and virtually no mortality. In cases with a...
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous patent...
12/02/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
12/01/2008
Robert Horvath, MD; Satindir K. Sandhu, MD; Andrea Towgood, RT
ABSTRACT: Coarctation of the aorta is one of the most common congenital heart defects. Transcatheter therapy for treatment of coarctation is effective, with low morbidity and mortality rates. The current trend is toward primary stent...
ABSTRACT: Coarctation of the aorta is one of the most common congenital heart defects. Transcatheter therapy for treatment of coarctation is effective, with low morbidity and mortality rates. The current trend is toward primary stent...
ABSTRACT: Coarctation of the...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
12/01/2008
Vladimir Jelnin, MD; Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD; Laurence M. Schneider, MBBCh, FRACP, MD
Case Presentation. A 48-year-old male with severe mental retardation, non-verbal and able to follow simple commands, presented to his primary care physician with one and a half months of progressive shortness of breath and lower-extremity...
Case Presentation. A 48-year-old male with severe mental retardation, non-verbal and able to follow simple commands, presented to his primary care physician with one and a half months of progressive shortness of breath and lower-extremity...
Case Presentation. A 48-year-old...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
12/01/2008
Fayaz Shawl, MD; Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal, MD, DM; Venkatesh K. Raman, MD; Azan Salim Binbrek, FRCP
ABSTRACT: Thrombosis late after implantation is an infrequent but increasingly recognized complication following revascularization with drug-eluting stents (DES). The window of vulnerability for this complication with DES remains undefined....
ABSTRACT: Thrombosis late after implantation is an infrequent but increasingly recognized complication following revascularization with drug-eluting stents (DES). The window of vulnerability for this complication with DES remains undefined....
ABSTRACT: Thrombosis late after...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
12/01/2008
Carmine Musto, MD, PhD; Alban Dibra, MD; Francesco De Felice, MD; Antonella De Santis, MD; Rosario Fiorilli, MD; Roberto Violini, MD; Antonio Parma, MD; Marco Stefano Nazzaro, PhD
ABSTRACT: Objectives. The prognosis of patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO) and diabetes mellitus treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation is unknown. Methods. We compared the...
ABSTRACT: Objectives. The prognosis of patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO) and diabetes mellitus treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation is unknown. Methods. We compared the...
ABSTRACT: Objectives. The...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
12/01/2008
Katsuhisa Waseda, MD, PhD; Alexandre Antonio Cunha Abizaid, MD, PhD; Robert J. Whitbourn, MD, MBBS; Junya Ako, MD, PhD; Bon-Kwon Koo, MD, PhD; Yasuhiro Honda, MD; Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD; Masao Yamasaki, MD, PhD
Treated with Novel Ultra-Low Profile, Guidewire-Based Self-Expanding Stent System ABSTRACT: Objectives. This study was performed to evaluate the long-term vascular response of the first series of patients treated by a novel ultra-low...
Treated with Novel Ultra-Low Profile, Guidewire-Based Self-Expanding Stent System ABSTRACT: Objectives. This study was performed to evaluate the long-term vascular response of the first series of patients treated by a novel ultra-low...
Treated with Novel Ultra-Low...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
12/01/2008
Giorgio Gimelli, MD; Matthew R. Wolff, MD
In Patients with Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy at Very High Risk for Surgery: A Single-Center Experience ABSTRACT: Background. Coronary artery bypass grafting is often considered for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, but age,...
In Patients with Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy at Very High Risk for Surgery: A Single-Center Experience ABSTRACT: Background. Coronary artery bypass grafting is often considered for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, but age,...
In Patients with Ischemic...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
12/01/2008
Hillel Laks, MD; Steven L. Goldberg, MD
Plaque begets plaque is a lesson to be learned from the article by Okabe and colleagues.1 It sounds tautological, and certainly simplistic, yet may be missed in a time where a great deal of attention is focused on strategies to identify...
Plaque begets plaque is a lesson to be learned from the article by Okabe and colleagues.1 It sounds tautological, and certainly simplistic, yet may be missed in a time where a great deal of attention is focused on strategies to identify...
Plaque begets plaque is a lesson...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
12/01/2008
Augusto D. Pichard, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Joseph Lindsay, MD; Probol Roy, MD; Daniel H. Steinberg, MD; Neil J. Weissman, MD; Ron Waksman, MD; Teruo Okabe, MD; Gary S. Mintz, MD; Sung Yun Lee, MD, PhD; Bongryeol Lee, MD; Tina Pinto-Slottow, MD; Kimberly A. Smith, BS; Zhenyi Xue, MS; Lowell F. Satler, MD; Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD
And the Intravascular Ultrasound Predictors of Events ABSTRACT: The long-term outcome of a moderately diseased left main coronary artery (LMCA) remains unknown. One hundred and fourteen patients who underwent angiographic and intravascular...
And the Intravascular Ultrasound Predictors of Events ABSTRACT: The long-term outcome of a moderately diseased left main coronary artery (LMCA) remains unknown. One hundred and fourteen patients who underwent angiographic and intravascular...
And the Intravascular Ultrasound...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
12/01/2008
Daniela Frey, BA; Michael Billinger, MD; Pascal Meier, MD; Olgica Beslac, RN; Raphael Grossenbacher, RN; Otto M. Hess, MD, PhD
ABSTRACT: Background. Vascular healing of intracoronary stents has been shown to be delayed in drug-eluting stents (DES) due to the cytotoxic compounds on the stent surface that prevent stent ingrowth and endothelialization. The lack of...
ABSTRACT: Background. Vascular healing of intracoronary stents has been shown to be delayed in drug-eluting stents (DES) due to the cytotoxic compounds on the stent surface that prevent stent ingrowth and endothelialization. The lack of...
ABSTRACT: Background. Vascular...
12/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology