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Volume 31 - Issue 10 - October 2023

Featured Article

Heart Failure Care
10/03/2023
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Christina Economides shares her experience treating patients with Barostim™ (Baroreflex Activation Therapy). The majority of her patients who have received Barostim have improved their functional and exercise...
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Christina Economides shares her experience treating patients with Barostim™ (Baroreflex Activation Therapy). The majority of her patients who have received Barostim have improved their functional and exercise...
Interventional cardiologist Dr....
10/03/2023
Cath Lab Digest
Imaging Education
10/02/2023
The burden of coronary artery disease is steadily increasing in the general population, due to an aging comorbid population and increase in disease complexity at the vessel level. To address this, new technologies, techniques, and...
The burden of coronary artery disease is steadily increasing in the general population, due to an aging comorbid population and increase in disease complexity at the vessel level. To address this, new technologies, techniques, and...
The burden of coronary artery...
10/02/2023
Cath Lab Digest
Imaging Systems
09/19/2023
Dr. Vijay Iyer discusses the value provided by the lab’s ARTIS icono imaging system (Siemens Healthineers).
Dr. Vijay Iyer discusses the value provided by the lab’s ARTIS icono imaging system (Siemens Healthineers).
Dr. Vijay Iyer discusses the...
09/19/2023
Cath Lab Digest

Column

Clinical Editor's Corner
10/03/2023
It is common knowledge that working in the cath lab is a team sport. The physicians and fellow operators work with and depend on the staff (RNs, LVNs, RTs, RCISs, CVTs, etc.). All of us benefit from the experience of the team, both...
It is common knowledge that working in the cath lab is a team sport. The physicians and fellow operators work with and depend on the staff (RNs, LVNs, RTs, RCISs, CVTs, etc.). All of us benefit from the experience of the team, both...
It is common knowledge that...
10/03/2023
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Case Report
10/03/2023
First described in 1872 by Ludwig Traube, Traube’s pulse, also known as pulsus bigeminus or pulsus alternans, is a rhythmic alternating strong and weak pulse. Traube’s pulse indicates severe cardiac failure and is a marker of poor prognosis;...
First described in 1872 by Ludwig Traube, Traube’s pulse, also known as pulsus bigeminus or pulsus alternans, is a rhythmic alternating strong and weak pulse. Traube’s pulse indicates severe cardiac failure and is a marker of poor prognosis;...
First described in 1872 by...
10/03/2023
Cath Lab Digest
Heart Disease Management
10/01/2023
Heart failure (HF) is a complex and chronic clinical syndrome that affects millions of people worldwide. It occurs when the heart is unable to pump blood effectively to meet the body's demands. Defining the disease in this way may appear...
Heart failure (HF) is a complex and chronic clinical syndrome that affects millions of people worldwide. It occurs when the heart is unable to pump blood effectively to meet the body's demands. Defining the disease in this way may appear...
Heart failure (HF) is a complex...
10/01/2023
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Images
09/25/2023
The finding of a thrombus in a nonaneurysmal aorta is a very rare entity with a potential for life-threatening complications such as risk for myocardial infarction and embolization to distal vascular beds.
The finding of a thrombus in a nonaneurysmal aorta is a very rare entity with a potential for life-threatening complications such as risk for myocardial infarction and embolization to distal vascular beds.
The finding of a thrombus in a...
09/25/2023
Cath Lab Digest

Department

Imaging Corner
09/19/2023

Images/courtesy Erasmus MC, The Netherlands

Images/courtesy Erasmus MC, The Nethe...
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is considered the gold standard for image guidance during tricuspid valve repair. However, the ability to position the TEE ultrasound probe is limited by the esophageal path, the distance to the...
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is considered the gold standard for image guidance during tricuspid valve repair. However, the ability to position the TEE ultrasound probe is limited by the esophageal path, the distance to the...
Transesophageal echocardiography...
09/19/2023
Cath Lab Digest