Volume 15 - Issue 6 - June, 2003
Feature
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Leonidas Diamantopoulos, MD, PhD, Yanming Huang, MD, Xiaosun Liu, MD, Shenggiao Li, MD, Walter Desmet, MD, PhD, Frans Van de Werf, MD, PhD, Ivan De Scheerder, MD, PhD
Leonidas Diamantopoulos, MD, PhD, Ya...
Arterial endoprostheses (stents) are widely used to improve angioplasty outcome and successfully restore the reduced vascular lumen. However, the metallic nature of stents causes some degree of arterial wall inflammation. This inflammation is...
Arterial endoprostheses (stents) are widely used to improve angioplasty outcome and successfully restore the reduced vascular lumen. However, the metallic nature of stents causes some degree of arterial wall inflammation. This inflammation is...
Arterial endoprostheses (stents)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Petros S. Dardas, MD, Dimitris D. Tsikaderis, MD, Nick E. Mezilis, MD, Giannis Styliadis, MD
Petros S. Dardas, MD, Dimitris D. Ts...
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of bifurcation lesions remains technically challenging.1,2 Immediate and mid-term results using balloon angioplasty are not always satisfactory for various reasons, such as low angiographic success...
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of bifurcation lesions remains technically challenging.1,2 Immediate and mid-term results using balloon angioplasty are not always satisfactory for various reasons, such as low angiographic success...
Percutaneous coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Arshad Ali, MBBS, MRCP, Mustafa Hashem, MD, Howard S. Rosman, MD, Ghassan Kazmouz, MD, Julius M. Gardin, MD, Theodore L. Schrieber, MD
Arshad Ali, MBBS, MRCP, Mustafa Hash...
Key words: percutaneous coronary intervention, platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, pulmonary hemorrhage
In 1983, the description of an antibody that blocked the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor led to the development of a...
Key words: percutaneous coronary intervention, platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, pulmonary hemorrhage
In 1983, the description of an antibody that blocked the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor led to the development of a...
Key words: percutaneous coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Deepak Bhakta, MD, Jeffrey A. Breall, MD, PhD, Vijay G. Kalaria, MD
Deepak Bhakta, MD, Jeffrey A. Breall...
Key words: adult congenital heart disease, angiography, bicuspid aortic valve stenosis, dextrocardia, situs inversus
Patients with congenital heart disease present interesting challenges during heart catheterization. We present an adult...
Key words: adult congenital heart disease, angiography, bicuspid aortic valve stenosis, dextrocardia, situs inversus
Patients with congenital heart disease present interesting challenges during heart catheterization. We present an adult...
Key words: adult congenital...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Shigenori Ito, MD, Shinsuke Ojio, MD, Takahiko Suzuki, MD
Shigenori Ito, MD, Shinsuke Ojio, MD...
Key words: acute occlusion, bail-out, coronary angiography, coronary stent
Coronary dissections sometimes compromise distal flow due to lack of re-entry, or compression by hematoma after wire manipulation or balloon dilatation during...
Key words: acute occlusion, bail-out, coronary angiography, coronary stent
Coronary dissections sometimes compromise distal flow due to lack of re-entry, or compression by hematoma after wire manipulation or balloon dilatation during...
Key words: acute occlusion,...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Tift Mann, MD, Jaffar Ali Raza, MD, C.H. Whitlock, RCIS, Michael Arrowood, PAC
Tift Mann, MD, Jaffar Ali Raza, MD, ...
Key words: bypass graft, distal protection, intervention
With the large number of patients who have had coronary bypass surgery in the past 20 years, management of recurrent ischemia in patients with venous bypass graft disease is a major...
Key words: bypass graft, distal protection, intervention
With the large number of patients who have had coronary bypass surgery in the past 20 years, management of recurrent ischemia in patients with venous bypass graft disease is a major...
Key words: bypass graft, distal...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Thomas M. Schiele, MD, *Christof Weber, MD, Volker Klauss, MD
Thomas M. Schiele, MD, *Christof Web...
Key words: coronary anomaly, intracoronary pressure, intravascular ultrasound, multislice computed tomography
Origin of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) from the right aortic sinus is a rare coronary anomaly.1–11 When coursing...
Key words: coronary anomaly, intracoronary pressure, intravascular ultrasound, multislice computed tomography
Origin of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) from the right aortic sinus is a rare coronary anomaly.1–11 When coursing...
Key words: coronary anomaly,...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Insights
Commentary
08/01/2008
Antonio Colombo, MD and Vassilis Spanos, MD
Antonio Colombo, MD and Vassilis Span...
Bifurcated coronary artery lesions represent one of the challenging areas in interventional cardiology. Coronary stenting resulted in more predictable results and higher angiographic success rate compared to balloon angioplasty. Angiographic...
Bifurcated coronary artery lesions represent one of the challenging areas in interventional cardiology. Coronary stenting resulted in more predictable results and higher angiographic success rate compared to balloon angioplasty. Angiographic...
Bifurcated coronary artery...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
George Dangas, MD, PhD and Ioannis Iakovou, MD
George Dangas, MD, PhD and Ioannis Ia...
The study presented by Ali et al. in this issue of the Journal reports an institutional experience with pulmonary hemorrhage in patients treated with platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors. Use of these intravenous agents has been...
The study presented by Ali et al. in this issue of the Journal reports an institutional experience with pulmonary hemorrhage in patients treated with platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors. Use of these intravenous agents has been...
The study presented by Ali et...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Ajay Tuli, MD, †Veerappan Subramaniyam, MD, Stephen Bakir, MD, Peter C. Block, MD,
*Ian R. Crocker, MD, Christopher U. Cates, MD
Ajay Tuli, MD, †Veerappan Subraman...
Key words: angioplasty, brachytherapy, laser, restenosis
Trials comparing coronary artery stenting to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have shown that repeat revascularization continues to be the main limitation of percutaneous...
Key words: angioplasty, brachytherapy, laser, restenosis
Trials comparing coronary artery stenting to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have shown that repeat revascularization continues to be the main limitation of percutaneous...
Key words: angioplasty,...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
