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Volume 20 - Issue 8 - August, 2008

Conclusion: Novel Approaches to Managing Bradycardia during Coronary Rheolytic Thrombectomy
11/24/2008
Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, FACC, FSCAI
The AngioJet device has been shown to be a safe and effective device for mechanical thrombectomy, yet its association with severe bradyarrhythmia has impeded its broad acceptance and widespread use. This “brady effect” has forced physicians...
The AngioJet device has been shown to be a safe and effective device for mechanical thrombectomy, yet its association with severe bradyarrhythmia has impeded its broad acceptance and widespread use. This “brady effect” has forced physicians...
The AngioJet device has been...
11/24/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letters to the Editor
PercuSurge Guiding Catheter Thrombectomy: A New Thought On an Old “Poor-Man’s” Technique
09/10/2008
Dear Editor,The recent article by Yoshimachi et al, entitled A Novel Method of PercuSurge Distal Protection in a Five French Guiding Catheter without an Export Aspiration Catheter1 is interesting as well as important, and deserves some...
Dear Editor,The recent article by Yoshimachi et al, entitled A Novel Method of PercuSurge Distal Protection in a Five French Guiding Catheter without an Export Aspiration Catheter1 is interesting as well as important, and deserves some...
Dear Editor,The recent article...
09/10/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Management of Dysrhythmias during Coronary AngioJet
11/24/2008
David Antoniucci, MD
How to Minimize the Need for Temporary Pacemaker during Rheolytic Thrombectomy ABSTRACT: Background. Whatever the mechanism or mechanisms involved in the genesis of bradyarrhythmias during rheolytic thrombectomy (RT), the severity and...
How to Minimize the Need for Temporary Pacemaker during Rheolytic Thrombectomy ABSTRACT: Background. Whatever the mechanism or mechanisms involved in the genesis of bradyarrhythmias during rheolytic thrombectomy (RT), the severity and...
How to Minimize the Need for...
11/24/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
Coexistent In-Stent Restenosis, Late Incomplete Stent Apposition and Mural Thrombus in a Zotarolimus-Eluting Stent
09/10/2008
Feng Zhang, MD; Junbo Ge, MD; Juying Qian, MD
ABSTRACT: Drug-eluting stents (DES) have been demonstrated to dramatically reduce the rate of in-stent restenosis (ISR). However, some studies found an increased rate of late incomplete stent apposition (ISA) and late stent thrombosis (ST) in...
ABSTRACT: Drug-eluting stents (DES) have been demonstrated to dramatically reduce the rate of in-stent restenosis (ISR). However, some studies found an increased rate of late incomplete stent apposition (ISA) and late stent thrombosis (ST) in...
ABSTRACT: Drug-eluting stents...
09/10/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Can Glycopyrrolate Replace Temporary Pacemaker and Atropine
11/24/2008
David L. Coven, MD, PhD; Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, MD; Tariqshah Syed, MD; Mun K. Hong, MD
In Patients at High Risk for Symptomatic Bradycardia Undergoing AngioJet Mechanical Thrombectomy? ABSTRACT: We studied the feasibility and efficacy of glycopyrrolate, a synthetic anticholinergic agent with shorter half-life and without...
In Patients at High Risk for Symptomatic Bradycardia Undergoing AngioJet Mechanical Thrombectomy? ABSTRACT: We studied the feasibility and efficacy of glycopyrrolate, a synthetic anticholinergic agent with shorter half-life and without...
In Patients at High Risk for...
11/24/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Risk of Late-Acquired Incomplete Stent Apposition after Drug-Eluting Stent versus Bare-Metal Stent
09/10/2008
Angel Sánchez-Recalde, MD, PhD; Raúl Moreno-Gómez, MD, PhD; Laura Barreales, MD; Fernando Rivero, MD; Guillermo Galeote, MD, PhD; Santiago Jimenez-Valero, MD, PhD; Luis Calvo-Orbe, MD; Esteban Lopez de Sa, MD; Jose Luis Lopez-Sendon, MD, PhD
A Meta-Analysis from 12 Randomized Trials ABSTRACT: Background. Incomplete stent apposition (ISA) is an unusual finding of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) that may occur both after drug-eluting stent (DES) or bare-metal stent (BMS)...
A Meta-Analysis from 12 Randomized Trials ABSTRACT: Background. Incomplete stent apposition (ISA) is an unusual finding of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) that may occur both after drug-eluting stent (DES) or bare-metal stent (BMS)...
A Meta-Analysis from 12...
09/10/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Intracoronary Aminophylline for Management of Bradyarrhythmias during Thrombectomy with the AngioJet® Catheter
11/24/2008
Bilal Murad, MD
ABSTRACT: Thrombectomy with the AngioJet® rheolytic thrombectomy catheter frequently causes bradyarrhythmias. This necessitates temporary pacemaker insertion and limits the device’s use. Novel approaches for treatment of bradyarrhythmias are...
ABSTRACT: Thrombectomy with the AngioJet® rheolytic thrombectomy catheter frequently causes bradyarrhythmias. This necessitates temporary pacemaker insertion and limits the device’s use. Novel approaches for treatment of bradyarrhythmias are...
ABSTRACT: Thrombectomy with the...
11/24/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Two-Year Intravascular Ultrasound Observations in Diabetic Patients Treated with Single and Double Dose Sirolimus-Eluting Stents
09/10/2008
J. Eduardo Sousa, MD, PhD; Junya Ako, MD, PhD; Ichizo Tsujino, MD, PhD; Ali H.M. Hassan, MD; Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD; Yasuhiro Honda, MD; Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD; Alexandre Antonio Cunha Abizaid, MD, PhD; Seung-Ho Hur, MD, PhD; Giulio Guagliumi, MD; Avinoam Shiran, MD; Sidney A. Cohen, MD, PhD; Basil S. Lewis, MD
ABSTRACT: Background. Diabetes has been reported as an independent predictor of restenosis after drug-eluting stent implantation. The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term impact of increased drug dose in sirolimus-eluting stents...
ABSTRACT: Background. Diabetes has been reported as an independent predictor of restenosis after drug-eluting stent implantation. The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term impact of increased drug dose in sirolimus-eluting stents...
ABSTRACT: Background. Diabetes...
09/10/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Aminophylline for Prevention of Bradyarrhythmias Induced by Rheolytic Thrombectomy
11/24/2008
Augustin DeLago, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Mohammad El-Hajjar, MD; Mikhail Kirnus, MD
ABSTRACT: In patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction or in those with thrombus-containing lesions, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) represents a clinical challenge to the interventionist, because coronary thrombus is a...
ABSTRACT: In patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction or in those with thrombus-containing lesions, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) represents a clinical challenge to the interventionist, because coronary thrombus is a...
ABSTRACT: In patients with acute...
11/24/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Drug-Eluting Stents in the Elderly: Long-Term (> One Year) Clinical Outcomes of Octogenarians in the DESIRE (Drug- Eluting Stent
09/10/2008
Amanda G.R.M. Sousa, MD, PhD; Jose de Ribamar Costa, Jr., MD, PhD; Ricardo A. Costa, MD, PhD; Galo Maldonado, MD; J. Eduardo Sousa, MD, PhD; Enilton T. Egito, MD; Edson R. Romano, MD; Marcos Barbosa, MD; Ricardo Pavanello, MD; César Jardim, MD; Abrão Cury, MD; Otávio Berwanger, MD, PhD; Manuel Cano, MD, PhD; Adriana Costa Moreira, MD, PhD
ABSTRACT: Background. Despite the increasing number of elderly people, this high-complexity subset of patients is often excluded from randomized trials of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and, therefore, limited data are available...
ABSTRACT: Background. Despite the increasing number of elderly people, this high-complexity subset of patients is often excluded from randomized trials of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and, therefore, limited data are available...
ABSTRACT: Background. Despite...
09/10/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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