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Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP

Letters to the Editor
08/01/2008
To the Editor: Today’s vast armamentarium of percutaneous coronary interventional devices has both simplified and complicated the procedure. While user-friendly catheters, wires and stents have allowed the seasoned interventionalist to...
To the Editor: Today’s vast armamentarium of percutaneous coronary interventional devices has both simplified and complicated the procedure. While user-friendly catheters, wires and stents have allowed the seasoned interventionalist to...
To the Editor: Today’s vast...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
06/19/2008
Case Presentation and Description of Technique A 63-year-old gentleman underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization at an outside hospital for acute coronary syndrome. He was found to have an eccentric, 95% right coronary AOL with preserved...
Case Presentation and Description of Technique A 63-year-old gentleman underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization at an outside hospital for acute coronary syndrome. He was found to have an eccentric, 95% right coronary AOL with preserved...
Case Presentation and...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
08/01/2008
Case Report. A 56-year-old male without previous cardiovascular history was admitted with chest pain suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. He reported experiencing exertional angina over the previous several days. His past medical and social...
Case Report. A 56-year-old male without previous cardiovascular history was admitted with chest pain suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. He reported experiencing exertional angina over the previous several days. His past medical and social...
Case Report. A 56-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letters to the Editor
08/01/2008
Recrossing a deployed stent with a guidewire is sometimes required when a distal lesion is recognized after wire withdrawal, or when a second “buddy wire” is required to facilitate distal advancement of another device. A popular technique is...
Recrossing a deployed stent with a guidewire is sometimes required when a distal lesion is recognized after wire withdrawal, or when a second “buddy wire” is required to facilitate distal advancement of another device. A popular technique is...
Recrossing a deployed stent with...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
06/19/2008
Case Report A 56-year-old woman presented with an acute inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. She was treated with intravenous metoprolol, heparin and eptifibatide, along with oral clopidogrel and aspirin. Emergent cardiac...
Case Report A 56-year-old woman presented with an acute inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. She was treated with intravenous metoprolol, heparin and eptifibatide, along with oral clopidogrel and aspirin. Emergent cardiac...
Case Report A 56-year-old woman...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
08/01/2008
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letters to the Editor
01/28/2011
To the Editor: Despite advancements in stent technology, procedural success in complex lesion morphologies is often dependent upon pre-stent lesion preparation. Lesion subtypes such as bifurcation, thrombotic, chronic total occlusion, and...
To the Editor: Despite advancements in stent technology, procedural success in complex lesion morphologies is often dependent upon pre-stent lesion preparation. Lesion subtypes such as bifurcation, thrombotic, chronic total occlusion, and...
To the Editor: Despite...
01/28/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
09/16/2008
The author has no conflicts to declare, and no grants were received for the preparation of this manuscript. In 1977, amidst immense skepticism, Professor Andreas Gruentzig performed the world’s first angioplasty in Zurich, Switzerland....
The author has no conflicts to declare, and no grants were received for the preparation of this manuscript. In 1977, amidst immense skepticism, Professor Andreas Gruentzig performed the world’s first angioplasty in Zurich, Switzerland....
The author has no conflicts to...
09/16/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
08/01/2008
J INVASIVE CARDIOL 2007;19:E89-E92 Case Report. A 19-year-old male college student was admitted with 2 days of progressive, intermittent substernal chest pain. He had driven home from his out-of-state campus, where 2 days earlier he had...
J INVASIVE CARDIOL 2007;19:E89-E92 Case Report. A 19-year-old male college student was admitted with 2 days of progressive, intermittent substernal chest pain. He had driven home from his out-of-state campus, where 2 days earlier he had...
J INVASIVE CARDIOL...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
A 3.5 x 15 mm Driver (Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN) stent was directly deployed in the circumflex artery without difficulty (Figure 2). On the third day, the patient developed chest pain with new electrocardiographic infero-lateral T-wave...
A 3.5 x 15 mm Driver (Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN) stent was directly deployed in the circumflex artery without difficulty (Figure 2). On the third day, the patient developed chest pain with new electrocardiographic infero-lateral T-wave...
A 3.5 x 15 mm Driver (Medtronic,...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest