Balloons

Case Report

Noncompliant, High-Pressure Balloon and Calcified, Undilatable Coronary Lesions

07/08/2019

Samir Kammoun , MD, PhD;

Amine Bahloul , MD;

Hela Sarray , MD;

Yassmine Kammoun , MD;

Tarek Ellouz , MD;

Mourad Hentati , MD, PhD;

Leila Abid , MD, PhD;

Optimal stent deployment can become a challenge for the interventional cardiologist, especially when it involves calcified, undilatable lesions. Various technologies have been developed to tackle this scenario and the super high-pressure...

Optimal stent deployment can...

07/08/2019

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

Low-Profile Peripheral Balloons in Infrainguinal Disease

04/03/2015

Jihad A. Mustapha , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Thomas P. Davis , MD, FACC;

This month Dr. Mustapha interviews Dr. Tom Davis, MD who is a pioneer in peripheral vascular revascularization. He shares with us the value of specialty balloons in infrainguinal disease.

This month Dr. Mustapha...

04/03/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Case Files by Dr. George

Flaring of Ostial Coronary Stent Using Flash Ostial Balloon for Aorto-Ostial Coronary Disease in a Right Coronary Artery Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention

02/03/2015

Jon C. George , MD, MBA;

Richard C. Kovach , MD;

Thomas E. Waggoner , DO;

The anatomic nature of percutaneous stenting of aorto-ostial lesions remains an angiographic challenge for interventional cardiologists. There are greater than 300,000 aorto-ostial stenting procedures performed worldwide each year.1-2 Herein,...

The anatomic nature of...

02/03/2015

Cath Lab Digest