Giancarlo Vitrella, MD

High-Frequency Mechanical Vibration to Recanalize Chronic Total Occlusions after Failure to Cross with Conventional Guidewires

08/01/2008

Ioannis Iakovou , MD;

Victor Lim , MD;

Lutz Buellesfeld , MD;

Gabor Sütsch , MD;

Giancarlo Vitrella , MD;

Eberhard Grube , MD;

Antonio Colombo , MD;

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) remains one of the more difficult technical challenges for interventional cardiologists, despite the progress made in the field of PCI in the past decade. CTOs (found...

Percutaneous coronary...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Video

How Coronary Perforation Looks via OCT

01/01/2023

Enrico Fabris , MD, PhD;

Giulia Gagno , MD;

Gianfranco Sinagra , MD;

Giancarlo Vitrella , MD;

We present a 52-year-old male who presented with LV failure with low ejection fraction and atrial fibrillation who was incidentally detected to have critical coarctation of the aorta.

We present a 52-year-old male...

01/01/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Images

How Coronary Perforation Looks at Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging

01/01/2023

Gianfranco Sinagra , MD;

Giancarlo Vitrella , MD;

Enrico Fabris , MD, PhD;

Giulia Gagno , MD;

A 78-year-old woman admitted for anterior non-ST elevated myocardial infarction underwent coronary angiography, which showed a critical stenosis of the proximal and distal left anterior descending artery (LAD). After predilation, the distal...

A 78-year-old woman admitted for...

01/01/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology