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Volume 29 - Issue 12 - December 2021

Department

Cath Lab Spotlight
Cath Lab Spotlight: St. Luke’s Monroe Interventional Radiology and Cardiac Cath Lab
12/05/2021
Jeannine Leager; Jon C. George, MD, MBA
Jon C. George MD, MBA; Jeannine Leager, RT(R)(VI), Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Jon C. George MD, MBA; Jeannine Leager, RT(R)(VI), Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Jon C. George MD, MBA; Jeannine...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

TAVR
Door-to-Valve Time of 120 Minutes for Severe Aortic Insufficiency and Cardiogenic Shock in ACS
12/05/2021
Talhat Azemi, MD; Immad Sadiq, MD; Muhammad Umair Bakhsh, MD; Faraz Kazmi, MD; Dalvir Gill, MD
Our case demonstrates the feasibility of emergent TAVR combined with left main (LM) bifurcation percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within 2 hours of hospital presentation for ACS and chronic bioprosthetic aortic insufficiency of a...
Our case demonstrates the feasibility of emergent TAVR combined with left main (LM) bifurcation percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within 2 hours of hospital presentation for ACS and chronic bioprosthetic aortic insufficiency of a...
Our case demonstrates the...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest
Suggested Technique
Guidewire Anchor Through Protruding Stent Technique and Neo-Stent Channel Formation
12/05/2021
Andrii Maryniak, MD; Tomasz P. Stys, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Filip Oleszak; Adam T. Stys, MD, FACC
A 76-year-old male presented with sudden onset nocturnal angina. Past medical history included hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
A 76-year-old male presented with sudden onset nocturnal angina. Past medical history included hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
A 76-year-old male presented...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
Left Ventricular Apical Aneurysm: Always Ischemic Heart Disease?
12/05/2021
Ulises Torres, MD; Neisser Morales, MD
Apical aneurysm is a common complication of acute ischemic heart disease; however, there are many other causes, including infectious causes. Chagas’ disease should be considered as a differential diagnosis when an ischemic cause is not clear....
Apical aneurysm is a common complication of acute ischemic heart disease; however, there are many other causes, including infectious causes. Chagas’ disease should be considered as a differential diagnosis when an ischemic cause is not clear....
Apical aneurysm is a common...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest
Suggested Technique
Mother-and-Child Technique for Aortic Stenosis
12/05/2021
Stanley Katz, MD, FACC; Lindsey Tereso, BS, RN, CEN-CMC, CVRN-BC II; Mary Cecelia Bush, BA, BS, RT(R)(M), RCIS
Earlier this year, when the Langston catheter (Teleflex) became unavailable due to a recall,1 those of us who love hemodynamics were left to figure out the best way to obtain invasive hemodynamic measurements for aortic stenosis.
Earlier this year, when the Langston catheter (Teleflex) became unavailable due to a recall,1 those of us who love hemodynamics were left to figure out the best way to obtain invasive hemodynamic measurements for aortic stenosis.
Earlier this year, when the...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest
Suggested Technique
Simultaneous Left Ventricle and Aortic Pressure Measurements Using a Swan-Ganz Catheter: Measuring the Transvalvular Pressure Gradient Across the Aortic Valve Using a Single Arterial Access
12/05/2021
Omar Al-Taweel, MD; Ahmad Al-Taweel, MD; Jimmy Diep, MD; Dalia Hawwass, MD; Ahsan Chowdhury, MD
Determination of a transvalvular pressure gradient for measurement of aortic valve area has always been challenging. Despite advancements in cardiac imaging technology over the past 50 years, invasive hemodynamics remains the gold standard...
Determination of a transvalvular pressure gradient for measurement of aortic valve area has always been challenging. Despite advancements in cardiac imaging technology over the past 50 years, invasive hemodynamics remains the gold standard...
Determination of a transvalvular...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest

Column

Calcium Corner
Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL): Research Roundup at TCT With Drs. Dean Kereiakes, Ziad Ali, Akiko Maehara, and Yasin Hussain
12/05/2021
Ziad A. Ali, MD, DPhil; Akiko Maehara, MD; Dean J. Kereiakes, MD, FACC, MSCAI; Yasin Hussain, MD
Following its presentation at TCT21 in a featured clinical research session, Disrupt CAD III co-principal investigator, Dean Kereiakes, MD, Medical Director of The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and the Christ Hospital Research...
Following its presentation at TCT21 in a featured clinical research session, Disrupt CAD III co-principal investigator, Dean Kereiakes, MD, Medical Director of The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and the Christ Hospital Research...
Following its presentation at...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Program Success: Expert Advice
Worried About Revenue and Growth? It’s Only Going to Get Harder
12/05/2021
Ryan Graver
In this month’s article, we are calling on the expertise and experiences of our own divisional leader, Ryan Graver, Divisional Vice President for Terumo Health Outcomes. Ryan has a wealth of experience in healthcare and the associated...
In this month’s article, we are calling on the expertise and experiences of our own divisional leader, Ryan Graver, Divisional Vice President for Terumo Health Outcomes. Ryan has a wealth of experience in healthcare and the associated...
In this month’s article, we are...
12/05/2021
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
Should Diagnostic-Only Operators Continue? Retool or Retire Redux
12/05/2021
Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD; Samuel M. Butman, MD; Jeffrey Marshall; Gurpreet S. Sandhu, MD, PhD; Carl L. Tommaso, MD; Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA; J. Dawn Abbott, MD; David J. Cohen, MD, MPH, MSc; Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, MBA, FSCAI, FACC
An interventionist in the southeastern United States asked me this question at TCT. The issue is quite an old one, but still relevant and perhaps more so now with the proliferation of fractional flow reserve (FFR), instantaneous wave-free...
An interventionist in the southeastern United States asked me this question at TCT. The issue is quite an old one, but still relevant and perhaps more so now with the proliferation of fractional flow reserve (FFR), instantaneous wave-free...
An interventionist in the...
12/05/2021
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Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC 

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Rebecca Kapur, rkapur@hmpglobal.com

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