Online Exclusives

Perspectives

My Mom is An Interventional Cardiologist: A Tribute and Challenge

08/05/2024

Life as a daughter of interventional cardiologist mom means knowing she won’t be there for day-to-day activities. Our priorities and expectations were well explained and often repeated at home, which made us feel as if this is a norm.

Life as a daughter of...

08/05/2024

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Clinical Images

05/28/2024

Pradnya Brijmohan Bhattad, MD

Amir Joshi, MD

Richard Wholey, MD

A 55-year-old nonsmoker male with a prior history of hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea presented for an exercise stress test to evaluate for palpitations. During his exercise treadmill stress test, he had a rate-related left bundle...

A 55-year-old nonsmoker male...

05/28/2024

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Career Perspectives

Don’t Give Up: Notes From My Journey to the SCAI Board of Trustees

02/15/2024

Kusum Lata, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Dr. Lata can be contacted at lata.drkusum@gmail.com.

Kusum Lata, MD, FACC, FSCAI Dr...

By sharing my own journey, I hope to inspire others to create their own transformative arena and collectively make a difference.

By sharing my own journey, I...

02/15/2024

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Out-of-Hospital Care

A Shift in Cardiovascular Care: Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), and Peripheral Vascular Interventions (PVI)

02/12/2024

Michael Church, Director, and Amy Newell, Senior Vice President at Corazon, Inc.

Michael Church, Director, and Amy New...

Providers must develop and integrate an ambulatory strategy into their overarching cardiovascular strategic plan, whether through joint ventures, acquisition, or other alignment structures with existing ASCs, or through investment into their...

Providers must develop and...

02/12/2024

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ANOMALIES

Coronary Arteriovenous Fistula: A Rare Coronary Anomaly

12/05/2023

Pradnya Brijmohan Bhattad, MD¹; Nitish Kumar Sharma, MD²; Mark Kranis, DO¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Medicine; ²Department of Interventional Cardiology
Saint Vincent Hospital, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.

Pradnya Brijmohan Bhattad, MD1; Nitis...

The authors share a coronary angiogram showing a coronary arteriovenous fistula arising from the right marginal artery, draining into coronary sinus, and ultimately draining into a great cardiac vein.

The authors share a coronary...

12/05/2023

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Letter to the Editor

Breathless Cities: Rethinking Cardiovascular Health in the Age of Pollution

12/05/2023

Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, and Yashendra Sethi, MD, Lumen Foundation, Miami

Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, and Yashendra...

Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, and Yashendra Sethi, MD, Lumen Foundation, Miami

Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, and...

12/05/2023

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Case Report

Traube’s Pulse

10/03/2023

Temitayo Adegoke, MD; Hadi Beaini, MD; Faris G. Araj, MD

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

The authors can be contacted via Faris G. Araj, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, at faris.araj@utsouthwestern.edu

Temitayo Adegoke, MD; Hadi Beaini, MD...

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

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Cath Lab Management

How Might Cardiology Programs Benefit From the Halo Effect?

09/15/2023

David "Warren" Grand, RN, Clinical Director Cardiac Services, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada

David "Warren" Grand, RN, Clinical Di...

The "halo effect" is a phenomenon in which a single characteristic or quality influences the entire perception of a person or, in this instance, a cardiology service line.

The "halo effect" is a...

09/15/2023

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