John Ducas, MD

Temporal Spectrum of Ischemic Complications with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The ESPRIT Experience

08/01/2008

John Ducas , MD;

William S. Sheldon , MD;

Mark A. Tannenbaum , MD;

Jack E. Smith , MD;

Michael M. Kitt , MD;

Ian C. Gilchrist , MD;

James C. Blankenship , MD;

James E. Tcheng , MD;

Warren J. Cantor , MD;

J. Conor O'Shea , MD;

Karen S. Pieper , MS;

Douglas A. Criger , MPH;

Mina Madan , MD, MPH;

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is an effective treatment for myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease. More than one million PCI procedures were performed worldwide in 1998.1 A major limitation of percutaneous...

Percutaneous coronary...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Emergent Percutaneous Intervention with a Drug-Eluting Stent
of a Cabrol Graft-to-Left Main Anastomosis during a Non-ST-Elevati

08/01/2008

Farrukh Hussain , MD, FRCPC;

John Ducas , MD;

Tirath Gosal , MD;

There are three classic techniques described for reimplantation of coronary arteries after repair of the ascending thoracic aorta.1–4 The original Bentall procedure was described in 1968 and is considered the standard technique .5 The Cabrol...

There are three classic...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Emergent Percutaneous Intervention with a Drug-Eluting Stent
of a Cabrol Graft-to-Left Main Anastomosis during a Non-ST-Elevati

08/01/2008

John Ducas , MD;

Farrukh Hussain , MD, FRCPC;

Tirath Gosal , MD;

**i*There are three classic techniques described for reimplantation of coronary arteries after repair of the ascending thoracic aorta.1–4 The original Bentall procedure was described in 1968 and is considered the standard technique.5 The...

**i*There are three classic...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Adoption of the Hybrid CTO Approach by a Single Non-CTO Operator: Procedural and Clinical Outcomes

02/24/2015

John Ducas , MD;

James M. McCabe , MD, FACC;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

William L. Lombardi , MD;

Amir Ravandi , MD, PhD;

Minh N. Vo , MD;

This study tested the feasibility of adopting the “hybrid” approach by a single operator without prior experience in CTO-PCI. The authors conclude that the “hybrid” approach to CTO-PCI can be successfully adopted by a single operator with...

This study tested the...

02/24/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology