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Author Interview

Equipment Utilization in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Update From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry: An Interview With Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD

04/04/2024

Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD

Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD ...

Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt catches up with Dr. Emmanouil S. Brilakis about his Editor’s 2023 Top 10 article, “Equipment Utilization in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Update From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry.”

Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt catches up...

04/04/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Images

A Rare Complication: Hydrophilic Coating of Puncture Guide Wire Found Floating in the Pulmonary Artery

12/05/2023

Qian Wang, MD^1,2; Long Zhou, MD¹; Jie Zeng, MD¹; Hui Huang, MD¹; Cong Lu, MD¹

Qian Wang, MD1,2; Long Zhou, MD1; Jie...

A 62-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation was admitted to Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, and radiofrequency ablation therapy was planned. After femoral venous puncture, X-ray fluoroscopy showed a slim-line shaped wire that was...

A 62-year-old woman with atrial...

12/05/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Initial Experience With the Gaia Composite Core Guidewires in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing

08/31/2023

Houman Khalili, MD¹; Minh N. Vo, MD²; Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD¹

¹VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, Texas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas

²University of Manitoba, Section of Cardiology, St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Houman Khalili, MD1; Minh N. Vo, MD2...

Inability to cross the occlusion with a guidewire is the most common cause of failure of coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) interventions. We describe two cases of successful application of the novel Gaia family of coronary guidewires...

Inability to cross the occlusion...

08/31/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Equipment Utilization in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Update From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry

02/01/2023

Spyridon Kostantinis, MD¹; Bahadir Simsek, MD¹; Judit Karacsonyi, MD, PhD¹; Athanasios Rempakos, MD¹; Khaldoon Alaswad, MD²; Farouc A. Jaffer, MD, PhD³; Jaikirshan J. Khatri, MD⁴; Paul Poommipanit, MD⁵; Rhian E. Davies, DO⁶; Stephane Rinfret, MD⁷; William Nicholson, MD⁷; Wissam Jaber, MD⁷; James W. Choi, MD⁸; Mitul P. Patel, MD⁹; Michael Koutouzis, MD¹⁰;
Ioannis Tsiafoutis, MD¹⁰; Sevket Gorgulu, MD¹¹; Taral N. Patel, MD¹²; Brian K. Jefferson, MD¹²; Jimmy L. Kerrigan, MD¹³; Basem Elbarouni, MD¹⁴; Nidal Abi Rafeh, MD¹⁵; Omer Goktekin, MD¹⁶; Ahmed M. ElGuindy, MD¹⁷; Salman Allana, MD¹; Olga C. Mastrodemos, BA¹; Bavana V. Rangan, BDS, MPH¹; Yader Sandoval, MD¹; M. Nicholas Burke, MD¹; Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD¹

Spyridon Kostantinis, MD1; Bahadir S...

Guidewires and microcatheters are critical to the success of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We examined equipment utilization in 11,202 CTO-PCIs performed in 10,952 patients at 42 United States (US)...

Guidewires and microcatheters...

02/01/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Images

A Phantom Lesion in the Left Main Coronary Artery: Concertina Effect

11/01/2021

Nitin Kumar Parashar, MD, DM¹; Mumun Sinha, MD, DM²; Gautam Sharma, MD, DM¹

Nitin Kumar Parashar, MD, DM1; Mumun...

Concertina effect in the left main coronary artery after percutaneous intervention should be considered in the appropriate setting to avoid confounding management dilemmas and unwarranted interventions.

Concertina effect in the left...

11/01/2021

Journal of Invasive Cardiology