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Volume 30 - Issue 9 - September 2022

Featured Article

Clinical Editor's Corner
Vasoreactivity Testing and Chest Pain Guidelines: Is the IIa Recommendation Warranted? INOCA Part II
09/05/2022

Dr. Morton J. Kern, Long Beach, California, with Drs. Colin Berry, Glasgow, Scotland; Sam Butman, Cottonwood, Arizona; Peter Block, Atlanta, Georgia; Bernard DeBruyne, Aalst, Belgium; Gregory Dehmer, Roanoke, Virginia; Tim Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio; Spencer King, Atlanta, Georgia; Lloyd Klein, Sonoma, California; Michael Kutcher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Amir Lerman, Rochester, Minnesota; Kreton Mavromatis, Atlanta, Georgia; David Moliterno, Lexington, Kentucky;  Srihari S. Naidu, Westchester, New York; August Pichard, Washington, DC; Jon Tobis, Los Angeles, California; Olga Toleva, Atlanta, Georgia; Bonnie Weiner, Worchester, Massachusetts.

Dr. Morton J. Kern, Long Beach, Calif...
INOCA and MINOCA (myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries) are now widely known and gathering attention regarding their diagnosis and treatment. Many labs now have sensor guidewires and software to make this possible. Specialized...
INOCA and MINOCA (myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries) are now widely known and gathering attention regarding their diagnosis and treatment. Many labs now have sensor guidewires and software to make this possible. Specialized...
INOCA and MINOCA (myocardial...
09/05/2022
Cath Lab Digest

Department

Cath Lab Spotlight
Cath Lab Spotlight: Wayne Memorial Hospital
09/06/2022

Sandra Skrobiszewski, RT(R), RCIS, with co-authors Cassidy Cohen, RT(R), RCIS, Kristen Schmale RT(R), and Andrew Tomicek, Corazon,
Honesdale, Pennsylvania

Sandra Skrobiszewski, RT(R), RCIS, wi...
Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH) is a small, independently owned, rural community hospital with just under 100 beds. We are a standalone cath lab Level 2, meaning we do not have an on-site open heart program. We are located in the Poconos...
Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH) is a small, independently owned, rural community hospital with just under 100 beds. We are a standalone cath lab Level 2, meaning we do not have an on-site open heart program. We are located in the Poconos...
Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH) is...
09/06/2022
Cath Lab Digest
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor Re: Langston® Dual Lumen Catheter Reintroduction
09/05/2022

Christopher E. Buller, MD, FRCPC, FACC. With commentary by Morton J. Kern, MD.

Christopher E. Buller, MD, FRCPC, FAC...
Nearly 18 months have passed since Teleflex made the decision to voluntarily recall Langston® Dual Lumen Catheters. A cluster of inner-member separations occurring during power injections had been reported, and readers may recall one...
Nearly 18 months have passed since Teleflex made the decision to voluntarily recall Langston® Dual Lumen Catheters. A cluster of inner-member separations occurring during power injections had been reported, and readers may recall one...
Nearly 18 months have passed...
09/05/2022
Cath Lab Digest
Imaging Corner
Removing Calcification Artifacts in CAD
09/05/2022

Images courtesy of Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston

Images courtesy of Medical University...
Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and high vessel calcification are contraindicated for traditional computed tomography (CT) and must undergo catheter-based angiography. Photon-counting CT has the potential to change this paradigm....
Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and high vessel calcification are contraindicated for traditional computed tomography (CT) and must undergo catheter-based angiography. Photon-counting CT has the potential to change this paradigm....
Patients with coronary artery...
09/05/2022
Cath Lab Digest

Column

Calcium Corner
Taking a Pulse Check in Complex Calcified Vessels
09/06/2022

Jaikirshan J. Khatri, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Director of Complex Coronary Intervention
Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic; Cleveland, Ohio

Jaikirshan J. Khatri, MD, FACC, FSCAI...
Dr. Khatri is the Director of Complex Coronary Intervention at Cleveland Clinic, performing 150-200 chronic total occlusion (CTO) procedures annually, along with a high volume of complex and high-risk coronary intervention procedures (CHIP).
Dr. Khatri is the Director of Complex Coronary Intervention at Cleveland Clinic, performing 150-200 chronic total occlusion (CTO) procedures annually, along with a high volume of complex and high-risk coronary intervention procedures (CHIP).
Dr. Khatri is the Director of...
09/06/2022
Cath Lab Digest

Insights

Cutting-Edge Technology
Early Bleed Detection With the Early Bird® Bleed Monitoring System
09/05/2022

Amir Kaki, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Associate Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Director, High-Risk Complex Coronary Interventions
Associate Director, Interventional Cardiology Section
Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Amir Kaki, MD, FACC, FSCAI Associate...
Femoral access is here to stay, particularly for patients who present with cardiogenic shock, or undergo high-risk PCI procedures and need mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices. Femoral access is also important in the structural arena,...
Femoral access is here to stay, particularly for patients who present with cardiogenic shock, or undergo high-risk PCI procedures and need mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices. Femoral access is also important in the structural arena,...
Femoral access is here to stay,...
09/05/2022
Cath Lab Digest
CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Total Vessel Imaging With the Gentuity High-Frequency Optical Coherence Tomography System
09/05/2022

Hiram Bezerra, MD, PhD

Director, Tampa General Hospital
Interventional Cardiology Center
Professor, University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, Florida

Hiram Bezerra, MD, PhD Director, Tamp...
The use of intravascular imaging has allowed us to improve percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) techniques and device selection. Starting with IVUS, intravascular imaging has been utilized in interventional cardiology since the late...
The use of intravascular imaging has allowed us to improve percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) techniques and device selection. Starting with IVUS, intravascular imaging has been utilized in interventional cardiology since the late...
The use of intravascular imaging...
09/05/2022
Cath Lab Digest
Office-Based Labs
Out-of-Hospital Lower Extremity Intervention in Severe PAD: How the Right Equipment and Devices Support Limb Salvage
09/05/2022

Liese Redd, Practice Manager; Douglas Redd, MD, The Center for Vascular Intervention, Atlanta, Georgia

Liese Redd, Practice Manager; Douglas...
The Center for Vascular Intervention is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and began treating patients just over five and a half years ago. We have one procedure room and a pre and post recovery area with four bays. Almost exclusively, we see limb...
The Center for Vascular Intervention is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and began treating patients just over five and a half years ago. We have one procedure room and a pre and post recovery area with four bays. Almost exclusively, we see limb...
The Center for Vascular...
09/05/2022
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Case Report
Navigating Impaired Central Venous Access in the Long-Haul COVID-19 Patient
09/05/2022

Perry Wu, MD; Maya Yabumoto, MD; Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Veterans Administration Long Beach Medical Center, Long Beach, California; University of California Irvine, Orange, California

Perry Wu, MD; Maya Yabumoto, MD; Mort...
We present a 39-year-old man with long-term respiratory sequelae from COVID-19 pneumonia who underwent right heart catheterization for lung transplant evaluation. The unusual sclerotic and aneurysmal lesions in the peripheral and central...
We present a 39-year-old man with long-term respiratory sequelae from COVID-19 pneumonia who underwent right heart catheterization for lung transplant evaluation. The unusual sclerotic and aneurysmal lesions in the peripheral and central...
We present a 39-year-old man...
09/05/2022
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Clinical Editor
Morton Kern, MD

Executive Editor
Laurie Gustafson

Managing Editor
Rebecca Kapur

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Elizabeth Vasil

Editorial Correspondence

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