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Volume 18 - Issue 2 - February, 2006

Original Contribution
Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy Using Metallic Commissurotome: Long-Term Follow-Up Results
08/01/2008
Sivasubramanian Sivasankaran, MD, DM; Jaganmohan Achuthan Tharakan, MBBS, MD, DM; Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan, MD, DM; Kavassery Mahadevan Krishnamoorthy, MD, DM; Anil Bhat, MD; Thomas Titus, MD; Ajith Kumar, MD
Percutaneous transmitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has been established as an effective treatment for mitral stenosis (MS) and is now the procedure of choice.1–6 Of the procedures available to treat mitral stenosis, percutaneous valvotomy using...
Percutaneous transmitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has been established as an effective treatment for mitral stenosis (MS) and is now the procedure of choice.1–6 Of the procedures available to treat mitral stenosis, percutaneous valvotomy using...
Percutaneous transmitral...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors during Rescue Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction
08/01/2008
Michael Kapeliovich, MD; Shlomo Amikam, MD; Walter Markiewicz, MD; Haim Hammerman, MD; Mahmoud Sileiman, MD; Monther Boulus, MD; Rafael Beyar, MD, DSc, MPH; Luis Gruberg, MD; Ehud Grenadier, MD
Fibrinolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, even with the most efficient regimens available, is fraught with a substantial proportion of failures to re-establish normal blood flow in the occluded vessel.1,2 Failure to achieve prompt...
Fibrinolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, even with the most efficient regimens available, is fraught with a substantial proportion of failures to re-establish normal blood flow in the occluded vessel.1,2 Failure to achieve prompt...
Fibrinolytic therapy for acute...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
Adjunctive Antiplatelet Therapy during Rescue PCI
08/01/2008
John J. Young, MD; Dean J. Kereiakes, MD, FACC, MSCAI
The treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) continues to evolve due to the adoption of antiplatelet and anticoagulation regimens in combination with pharmacologic (fibrinolysis) and/or mechanical reperfusion. Rapid,...
The treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) continues to evolve due to the adoption of antiplatelet and anticoagulation regimens in combination with pharmacologic (fibrinolysis) and/or mechanical reperfusion. Rapid,...
The treatment of ST-segment...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Sequential Balloon Dilatation for Combined Aortic Valvular Stenosis and Coarctation of the Aorta in a Single Catheterization Pro
08/01/2008
Kursad Tokel, MD; Selman Vefa Yildirim, MD; Birgul Varan, MD; Enver Ekici, MD
Combined aortic valvular stenosis (AVS) and coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is uncommon.3–5 This combination was detected in 7% of a large group of children with CoA who underwent balloon angioplasty.2 The long-term results of percutaneous...
Combined aortic valvular stenosis (AVS) and coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is uncommon.3–5 This combination was detected in 7% of a large group of children with CoA who underwent balloon angioplasty.2 The long-term results of percutaneous...
Combined aortic valvular...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Biodegradable Stents: They Do Their Job and Disappear
08/01/2008
Ron Waksman, MD
Coronary stenting has become the default device in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Coronary stents are used as a mechanical means to overcome the major limitations of balloon angioplasty with enabling scaffolding and the...
Coronary stenting has become the default device in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Coronary stents are used as a mechanical means to overcome the major limitations of balloon angioplasty with enabling scaffolding and the...
Coronary stenting has become the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
Percutaneous Retrograde Revascularization of Lower Extremity Vessels by Using the Dorsalis Pedis Artery: Two Case Reports
08/01/2008
Thomas P. Davis, MD, FACC; Ashish Awasthi, MD; Yassar Almanaseer, MD; Thomas A. LaLonde, MD
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is commonly found in association with coronary artery disease (CAD) and is also considered a marker for CAD.1,2 There has been an increase in the treatment options for PAD with an increasing number of...
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is commonly found in association with coronary artery disease (CAD) and is also considered a marker for CAD.1,2 There has been an increase in the treatment options for PAD with an increasing number of...
Peripheral artery disease (PAD)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letters to the Editor
Iodixanol and Chronic Kidney Disease
08/01/2008
Gilbert Deray, MD
Dear Editor, I read with great interest the Tadros, et al. article1 entitled Iso-osmolar Radiocontrast Iodixanol in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (J Invasive Cardiol 2005;17:211–215). They concluded that the volume of iso-osmolar...
Dear Editor, I read with great interest the Tadros, et al. article1 entitled Iso-osmolar Radiocontrast Iodixanol in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (J Invasive Cardiol 2005;17:211–215). They concluded that the volume of iso-osmolar...
Dear Editor, I read with great...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial
Coronary Bifurcation Stenting: From Crush to Culotte. Avoiding Limerence and Meme Propagation?
08/01/2008
Roberto Baglini, MD, PhD; Duccio Baldari, MD; Giuseppe Mezzapelle, MD
The Wikipedia term “crush” refers to a short-lived and unrequited love or limerence (“to crush on”). The primary characteristics of limerence can be summarized as intrusive, perhaps obsessive thinking about the limerent object and acute...
The Wikipedia term “crush” refers to a short-lived and unrequited love or limerence (“to crush on”). The primary characteristics of limerence can be summarized as intrusive, perhaps obsessive thinking about the limerent object and acute...
The Wikipedia term “crush”...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Editorial Message
Feb-06
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes several interesting research articles, commentaries and selections from the Journal’s special sections, Adjunctive Therapy, Pediatric Intervention, and Clinical Images....
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes several interesting research articles, commentaries and selections from the Journal’s special sections, Adjunctive Therapy, Pediatric Intervention, and Clinical Images....
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
Novel Intracoronary Steerable Support Catheter for Complex Coronary Intervention
08/01/2008
Shing-Chiu Wong, MD; Srihari S. Naidu, MD
Case Description. A 69-year-old female with hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented with a 2-month history of worsening exertional angina. Nuclear perfusion imaging indicated ischemia in the inferior and inferoposterior walls, with...
Case Description. A 69-year-old female with hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented with a 2-month history of worsening exertional angina. Nuclear perfusion imaging indicated ischemia in the inferior and inferoposterior walls, with...
Case Description. A 69-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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The objective of this study was to determine if the right coronary artery takeoff is in the same plane as the takeoff plane of the major aortic arch branches.
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