Jaime Ghitelman, MD

Commentary

Vascular Closure Devices ‚Äî The Other Side of Hemostasis

03/31/2010

Vascular closure devices (VCDs) became available to the interventional cardiology community in the mid-1990s. VCDs were initially created to treat the high rates of access-site bleeding associated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)...

Vascular closure devices (VCDs)...

03/31/2010

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

Outcome with Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters: Lost in Translation

05/06/2010

Jaime Ghitelman , MD;

Lawrence A. Garcia , MD, FACC, FAHA;

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has an incidence of approximately 100 individuals per 100,000 population each year in the United States. 1 The most common presentation of VTE is deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or its more feared complication,...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has...

05/06/2010

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Association Between Off-Label Use of Drug-Eluting Stents and Subsequent Stent Thrombosis: A Case-Control Analysis

01/07/2010

Mark Menegus , MD;

Vankeepuram S. Srinivas , MBBS, MS;

Asaf Rabinovitz , MD;

Dara M. Bier , BS ;

Gabriel M. Wagman , MD;

Esti Charlap , BA;

Reza Nazari , MD;

Jaime Ghitelman , MD;

Sulejman Celaj , MD;

Basel Skeif , MD;

ABSTRACT: Objectives. We sought to examine the association between off-label drug-eluting stent (DES) use and stent thrombosis (ST) in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Background. DES are frequently...

ABSTRACT: Objectives. We sought...

01/07/2010

Journal of Invasive Cardiology