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Volume 22 - Issue 3 - March 2014

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Cath Lab Management
Corazon Formed Hospital Consortium in PA to Change Regulation; Will Become State Verifier for PCI Services
03/05/2014
Corazon, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based firm with offices in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Austin, TX, has been invited to become a verifier of programs in Pennsylvania seeking to offer coronary angioplasty (PCI) without on-site cardiac surgery services...
Corazon, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based firm with offices in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Austin, TX, has been invited to become a verifier of programs in Pennsylvania seeking to offer coronary angioplasty (PCI) without on-site cardiac surgery services...
Corazon, Inc., a...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Management
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR): The Rapid Shift from Transformative Technology to Core Component of Distinctive Heart Programs
03/05/2014
Ross Swanson, Senior Vice President, Corazon, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ross Swanson, Senior Vice President, ...
The Corazon team predicts that the number of TAVR-eligible patients will increase significantly as technology enhancements support more patient types and current restrictions that limit procedural candidates loosen.
The Corazon team predicts that the number of TAVR-eligible patients will increase significantly as technology enhancements support more patient types and current restrictions that limit procedural candidates loosen.
The Corazon team predicts that...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
New Devices
Vascular Solutions Announces the Launch of ThrombiDisc™ Topical Hemostat
03/05/2014
Vascular Solutions, Inc. recently announced the launch of the ThrombiDisc topical hemostat, designed for use around indwelling lines up to 12 French.
Vascular Solutions, Inc. recently announced the launch of the ThrombiDisc topical hemostat, designed for use around indwelling lines up to 12 French.
Vascular Solutions, Inc....
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
New Devices
Inside-Out Upper Body Venous Access: First in Human Experience with a Novel Approach Using the Surfacer System
03/05/2014
Adrian Ebner, MD, Santiago Gallo, MD, Carlos Cetraro, MD, Sanatorio Italiano Hospital Asuncion, Paraguay; John C. Gurley, MD, Professor, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Director, UK Catheterization Lab, University of Kentucky Cardiovascular Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky; Laura Minarsch, RT(R), CVT, CCRP, Laguna Beach, California. This article is reprinted with permission from the June 2013 issue of Endovascular Today.
Adrian Ebner, MD, Santiago Gallo, MD,...
Central venous occlusive disease is entirely iatrogenic, highly destructive, and vastly underappreciated by the general medical community.
Central venous occlusive disease is entirely iatrogenic, highly destructive, and vastly underappreciated by the general medical community.
Central venous occlusive disease...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
Question: Do you use transradial access for STEMI patients with a history of CABG?
03/05/2014
Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Tampa, Florida, Zaheed Tai, DO, FACC, FSCAI, Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven, Florida
Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Tampa, Fl...
This is a 79-year-old gentleman with a history of coronary artery disease, status post bypass x 3 (left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending coronary artery [LIMA->LAD]; saphenous vein graft to the right posterior...
This is a 79-year-old gentleman with a history of coronary artery disease, status post bypass x 3 (left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending coronary artery [LIMA->LAD]; saphenous vein graft to the right posterior...
This is a 79-year-old gentleman...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
The Cardiac Cath Lab, U.S. Naval Air Training, and Operational Excellence
03/05/2014

Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor; Chief Cardiology, Long Beach Veterans Administration Health Care System, Long Beach, California; Associate Chief Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, California

Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor; Chi...
I was keenly struck by the parallels of naval air training and operational excellence to the training and practice that occurs (or should) in the cath lab.
I was keenly struck by the parallels of naval air training and operational excellence to the training and practice that occurs (or should) in the cath lab.
I was keenly struck by the...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
Management of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
03/05/2014

Navin K. Kapur, MD1, Marwan F. Jumean, MD2, 1Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Assistant Director, Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Director, Surgical Research Laboratory: Interventional Division, Tufts Medical Center; Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts;  2Interventional Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Fellow, The Cardiovascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Navin K. Kapur, MD1, Marwan F. Jumean...
When bedside examination, laboratory testing, echocardiography or other imaging studies fail to identify a cause for LVAD dysfunction, an invasive hemodynamic assessment may be necessary.
When bedside examination, laboratory testing, echocardiography or other imaging studies fail to identify a cause for LVAD dysfunction, an invasive hemodynamic assessment may be necessary.
When bedside examination,...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
Adding Value with TAVR at the Oklahoma Heart Institute
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest talks with Kamran I. Muhammad, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director, Structural Heart Disease Program, Oklahoma Heart Institute, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Cath Lab Digest talks with Kamran I. ...
Oklahoma Heart Institute is part of the Hillcrest Healthcare system, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are a full-service cardiology practice and heart hospital, and began performing TAVR in May 2012 with great success.
Oklahoma Heart Institute is part of the Hillcrest Healthcare system, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are a full-service cardiology practice and heart hospital, and began performing TAVR in May 2012 with great success.
Oklahoma Heart Institute is part...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest
Breaking the Rules: Use of Rotational Atherectomy in STEMI
03/05/2014
Ailin Barseghian, MD, Senior Cardiology Fellow, University of California at Irvine, Orange, California; William Madrid, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Lakewood Regional Medical Center, Lakewood, California; Omid Vahdat, MD, Attending Cardiologist, University of California at Irvine, Orange, California
Ailin Barseghian, MD, Senior Cardiolo...
This case demonstrates the successful use of rotational atherectomy to facilitate dilation and revascularization of the culprit lesion in a patient with STEMI.
This case demonstrates the successful use of rotational atherectomy to facilitate dilation and revascularization of the culprit lesion in a patient with STEMI.
This case demonstrates the...
03/05/2014
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Unusual Diagnosis
Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 21-Year-Old Male Due to Essential Thombocytosis
03/05/2014
Venkataramanan Gangadharan, MD, Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, Jonathan Ticku, MD, Hematologist/Oncologist, MD, Anderson Cancer Research Institute, Orlando Health Center, Orlando, Florida, Vijaykumar Kasi, MD, PhD, Director of Cardiovascular Research, Orlando Health Heart Institute, Orlando, Florida
Venkataramanan Gangadharan, MD, Fello...
However, there are rare instances when an acute MI occurs in patients with no obvious risk factors and no predilection to develop coronary artery thrombosis. One such condition that has rarely been documented in literature is essential...
However, there are rare instances when an acute MI occurs in patients with no obvious risk factors and no predilection to develop coronary artery thrombosis. One such condition that has rarely been documented in literature is essential...
However, there are rare...
03/05/2014
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Morton Kern, MD

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Rebecca Kapur

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Elizabeth Vasil

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