Laura Minarsch, CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R)

Percutaneous Bypass Approach to Treat Refractory Angina in No-Option Patients: Bypass in the Cath Lab?

06/19/2008

Despite the advances in both percutaneous and surgical treatment for coronary artery disease, there remains a significant patient population for whom these treatments either fail or inadequately resolve refractory angina. In this no-option...

Despite the advances in both...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Crosser Catheter used Primarily to Treat Proximal LAD Chronic Total Occlusion

06/19/2008

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

Alaide Chieffo , MD;

Flavio Airoldi , MD;

Antonio Colombo , MD;

Through angiography, a 20 mm chronic total occlusion (CTO) was noted in the proximal to mid left anterior descending (LAD), with retrograde filling from the right coronary artery (RCA) (Figure 1). The patient was hypertensive, had...

Through angiography, a 20 mm...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Percutaneous Bypass Approach to Treat Refractory Angina in No-Option Patients: Bypass in the Cath Lab?

06/19/2008

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

Despite the advances in both...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Mid-RCA Chronic Total Occlusion Recanalized with CROSSER Catheter as First Therapy

06/19/2008

Alaide Chieffo , MD;

Flavio Airoldi , MD;

Antonio Colombo , MD;

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

Angiography revealed a single vessel chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the right coronary artery (RCA) with collateral circulation feeding the distal vessel. Failed attempts utilizing standard guidewires to open the RCA were made the following...

Angiography revealed a single...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Inside the EP Lab

Initial Human Experience of a Novel Steerable Sheath for AF Ablation With Circumferential PV Isolation

05/02/2015

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

Ian Crozier , MD;

Iain Melton , MD;

Matthew Daly , MD;

Catherine Cruickshank ;

The Vado Sheath, a novel coaxial steerable sheath design without pull-wires, improved the authors' ability to target and isolate veins in patients with paroxysmal and persistent AF.

The Vado Sheath, a novel coaxial...

05/02/2015

EP Lab Digest

The Ten-Minute Interview with: Laura Minarsch, RT(R), CVT, CCRP

06/19/2008

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

I am continually searching for challenges and change, and am in the perfect place to fulfill both of these desires. The field of interventional cardiology became my career shortly after I graduated in 1978 from the radiologic technology...

I am continually searching for...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Crosser Catheter used Primarily to Treat Proximal LAD Chronic Total Occlusion

06/19/2008

Antonio Colombo , MD;

Alaide Chieffo , MD;

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

Flavio Airoldi , MD;

Through angiography, a 20 mm...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Mid-RCA Chronic Total Occlusion Recanalized with CROSSER Catheter as First Therapy

06/19/2008

Flavio Airoldi , MD;

Antonio Colombo , MD;

Alaide Chieffo , MD;

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

Angiography revealed a single...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

The Ten-Minute Interview with: Laura Minarsch, RT(R), CVT, CCRP

06/19/2008

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

I am continually searching for...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Update

Cut to the Pace: Transcoronary Pacing

10/03/2011

Cary Lunsford , RCIS, FSICP;

Laura Minarsch , CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R);

We have all been there: p-waves casually marching across the monitor. Giving the patient orders to “Cough! Cough!” It is a stressful scenario and as the technologists frantically unwrap transcutaneous pacing electrodes and another circulator...

We have all been there: p-waves...

10/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest