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Volume 15 - Issue 9 - September, 2003

Feature

Vascular Disease
08/01/2008
*Syed W. Bokhari, MD, *Omid Vahdat, MD, *†Rex J. Winters, MD
*Syed W. Bokhari, MD, *Omid Vahdat, ...
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is an established form of revascularization, typically associated with improved survival. However, CABG has its own inherent deficiencies, including recurrent ischemia, venous graft failure and the...
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is an established form of revascularization, typically associated with improved survival. However, CABG has its own inherent deficiencies, including recurrent ischemia, venous graft failure and the...
Coronary artery bypass graft...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Niall T. Mulvihill, MD, Mohamed Loutfi, MD, Emmanuel Salengro, MD, Marco Boccalatte, MD, Jean Claude Laborde, MD, Jean Fajadet, MD, Jean Marco, MD
Niall T. Mulvihill, MD, Mohamed Loutf...
Coronary subclavian steal syndrome is a variant of subclavian steal syndrome. It consists of obstructive atherosclerotic disease of the proximal subclavian artery in the presence of a patent internal mammary artery that has been previously...
Coronary subclavian steal syndrome is a variant of subclavian steal syndrome. It consists of obstructive atherosclerotic disease of the proximal subclavian artery in the presence of a patent internal mammary artery that has been previously...
Coronary subclavian steal...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Aamir Hameed, MD, Shafiq Hanna-Moussa, MD, Shukri David, MD
Aamir Hameed, MD, Shafiq Hanna-Mouss...
Pseudoaneurysms of saphenous vein grafts are rare following coronary artery bypass surgery. They occur most often at the proximal anastomosis secondary to vessel layer disruption. Rarely do they occur distally. We report the case of a...
Pseudoaneurysms of saphenous vein grafts are rare following coronary artery bypass surgery. They occur most often at the proximal anastomosis secondary to vessel layer disruption. Rarely do they occur distally. We report the case of a...
Pseudoaneurysms of saphenous...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Akram Abu-Ful, MD, Jean Marc Weinstein, MRCP (UK), Yaakov Henkin, MD
Akram Abu-Ful, MD, Jean Marc Weinstei...
Aortic dissection is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1,9 It can be life-threatening and warrants immediate diagnosis and treatment, which may be conservative,1,3 surgical, or stenting.4–6,8,9 We describe a...
Aortic dissection is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1,9 It can be life-threatening and warrants immediate diagnosis and treatment, which may be conservative,1,3 surgical, or stenting.4–6,8,9 We describe a...
Aortic dissection is a rare...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Column

Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, Editor-in-Chief
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, Editor-in...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology marks the beginning of a new home for the journal and for the editor-in-chief. Management of the journal will now be coordinated from the office of the Joint Cardiac Program of...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology marks the beginning of a new home for the journal and for the editor-in-chief. Management of the journal will now be coordinated from the office of the Joint Cardiac Program of...
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Electrophysiology Corner
08/01/2008
Thomas S. Faber, MD, Andreas Grom, MD, Manfred Zehender, MD
Thomas S. Faber, MD, Andreas Grom, M...
Common complications of permanent endocardial pacing systems include infection of the generator pocket, the wire track, increase in pacing threshold or complete exit block due to fibrosis at the myocardial contact site, dislocation or...
Common complications of permanent endocardial pacing systems include infection of the generator pocket, the wire track, increase in pacing threshold or complete exit block due to fibrosis at the myocardial contact site, dislocation or...
Common complications of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
1Uwe Zeymer, MD, 2Ulrich Tebbe, MD, 3Michael Weber, MD, 4Hans-F. Vöhringer, MD, 5Rainer Jaksch, MD, 6Karl-Otto Bischoff, MD, 7Wolfgang Toepel, MD, 8Parvaneh Marsalek, MD, 1Stefan Horn, MD, 1*Karl-Ludwig Neuhaus, MD, for the ALKK Study Group
1Uwe Zeymer, MD, 2Ulrich Tebbe, MD, 3...
Cardiogenic shock occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).1 Despite the use of early reperfusion therapies with thrombolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the mortality in these...
Cardiogenic shock occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).1 Despite the use of early reperfusion therapies with thrombolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the mortality in these...
Cardiogenic shock occurs in...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Cezar S. Staniloae, MD, Ziad El-Khally, MD, Reda Ibrahim, MD, Annie Dore, MD, Pierre de Guise, MD, Lise-Andrée Mercier, MD
Cezar S. Staniloae, MD, Ziad El-Khall...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital cardiac anomalies encountered in adults.1 Surgical ASD closure leads to improved functional status, reduces the risk of progressive right-sided failure and prevents the...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital cardiac anomalies encountered in adults.1 Surgical ASD closure leads to improved functional status, reduces the risk of progressive right-sided failure and prevents the...
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Nicolas W. Shammas, MS, MD, •Jon H. Lemke, PhD, Eric J. Dippel, MD, •Dawn E. McKinney, MA, Vickie S. Takes, RN, Monica Youngblut, RN, Melodee Harris, RN
Nicolas W. Shammas, MS, MD, •Jon H....
Unfractionated heparin (UFH) is the current antithrombotic agent utilized during peripheral angioplasty procedures (PTA). UFH has an unpredictable anticoagulation response, is an indirect thrombin inhibitor, does not inhibit bound thrombin...
Unfractionated heparin (UFH) is the current antithrombotic agent utilized during peripheral angioplasty procedures (PTA). UFH has an unpredictable anticoagulation response, is an indirect thrombin inhibitor, does not inhibit bound thrombin...
Unfractionated heparin (UFH) is...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Insights

Commentary
08/01/2008
P. Syamasundar Rao, MD
P. Syamasundar Rao, MD
Since the initial description in the mid 1970s by King and Mills et al.1–3 of an atrial septal defect occluding device, a number of other devices have been studied, including: Rashkind’s devices (hooked and double umbrella), Clamshell...
Since the initial description in the mid 1970s by King and Mills et al.1–3 of an atrial septal defect occluding device, a number of other devices have been studied, including: Rashkind’s devices (hooked and double umbrella), Clamshell...
Since the initial description in...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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