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Calcification: Features

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Letter from the Editor

Treatment of Heavily Calcified Unprotected Left Main Disease With Lithotripsy: The First Case Series

05/30/2019

Bernard Wong, MBChB; Seif El-Jack, MBBS; Ali Khan, MBBS; Ruth Newcombe, DCR; Timothy Glenie, MBChB; Aleksandar Cicovic, MBChB; Guy Armstrong, MBChB

Bernard Wong, MBChB; Seif El-Jack, M...

This first case series presents the use of Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy in a patient with LMCA disease with multivessel disease who declined surgery, a patient with isolated LMCA disease and severe cardiomyopathy, and a late...

This first case series presents...

05/30/2019

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Frequency and Outcomes of Ad Hoc Versus Planned Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Multicenter Experience

01/14/2019

For patients needing coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a planned, staged intervention has been recommended by experts. Ad hoc CTO-PCI, however, occurs in practice. Sandoval et al examined the...

For patients needing coronary...

01/14/2019

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Conference Coverage

The Role of Lithoplasty in Calcified Lesions: Is There Promise of Improved Results?

04/16/2018

Thomas Zeller, MD, PhD

Universitaets-Herzzentrum, Freiburg Bad Krozingen, Germany

Thomas Zeller, MD, PhD Universita...

Recent data have confirmed that an endovascular-first approach using drug-eluting technologies or endoprostheses is at least non-inferior to bypass surgery even in longer lesions. However, the major drawback of balloon angioplasty, and even...

Recent data have confirmed that...

04/16/2018

Vascular Disease Management