Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, MD

Commentary

Breaking with Tradition: Is Diagnostic Angiography Really
Necessary before Primary PCI?

08/01/2008

Deepak L. Bhatt , MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI;

The superiority of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) over fibrinolytic therapy for the treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has been demonstrated in several large studies.1-3 Nevertheless, the preponderance...

The superiority of primary...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

‚ÄúYou Can‚Äôt Keep a Good Man (or Woman) Down‚Äù

08/01/2008

Adnan K. Chhatriwalla , MD;

Deepak L. Bhatt , MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI;

There has been an impressive decrease in the incidence of vascular complications following cardiac catheterization in recent years;1 however, excess bleeding from the access site, hematoma, arteriovenous fistula and arterial pseudoaneurysm...

There has been an impressive...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

High Left Ventricular Mass Index Does Not Limit the Utility of Fractional Flow Reserve for the Physiologic Assessment of Lesion

08/01/2008

Lawrence W. Gimple , MD;

Christopher M. Kramer , MD;

Joshua J. Fischer , MD;

Kurt G. Barringhaus , MD;

Habib Samady , MD;

Michael Ragosta , MD;

Eric R. Powers , MD;

Alan J. Sarembock , MD;

Adnan K. Chhatriwalla , MD;

Myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) is an invasive index of the physiologic significance of a coronary stenosis. FFR is simply measured as the mean intracoronary pressure distal to a lesion divided by the mean aortic pressure during...

Myocardial fractional flow...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Rapid Communication

Role of Invasive Evaluation with Cineradiography and Intracardiac Echocardiography (Full title below)

04/07/2009

Adnan K. Chhatriwalla , MD;

Harry M. Lever , MD;

Gosta Pettersson , MD;

Samir R. Kapadia , MD;

From the Departments of *Cardiovascular Medicine and §Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted December 3, 2008, provisional...

From the Departments of...

04/07/2009

Journal of Invasive Cardiology