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Volume 17 - Issue 5 - May, 2005

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 includes original research articles, case reports and case reports with brief reviews, as well as articles from the journal’s special sections Adjunctive Therapy and...
Dear Readers, This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, case reports and case reports with brief reviews, as well as articles from the journal’s special sections Adjunctive Therapy and...
Dear Readers, This issue of the...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Insights

Commentary
08/01/2008
Bilal Murad, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine
Bilal Murad, MD Assistant Professor o...
Thrombectomy in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) makes intuitive sense with positive results from small studies demonstrating benefit. However, the AngioJet (AJC) catheter (Possis Medical, Minneapolis Minnesota) has come under recent...
Thrombectomy in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) makes intuitive sense with positive results from small studies demonstrating benefit. However, the AngioJet (AJC) catheter (Possis Medical, Minneapolis Minnesota) has come under recent...
Thrombectomy in acute myocardial...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology

News

Teaching Collection
08/01/2008
Speakers: William O’Neill, MD and Raoul Bonan, MD Moderator: Patrick Whitlow, MD Panelists: Paul Overlie, MD, Roxana Mehran, MD, Ted Bass, MD, Fayaz Shawl, MD, Norberto Schechtmann, MD, Greg Braden, MD
Speakers: William O’Neill, MD and R...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the issue of MI patients who live in communities where there is quick access to catheterization laboratories, versus those in remote communities who don’t have easy access to cath labs. We live in a modestly rural...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the issue of MI patients who live in communities where there is quick access to catheterization laboratories, versus those in remote communities who don’t have easy access to cath labs. We live in a modestly rural...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Mouaz Al-Mallah, MD, Khaled Dajani, MD, Michael Hudson, MD, Hrishikesh Iyengar, MD Noel Gutierrez, MD, W. Douglas Weaver, MD, Sanjaya Khanal, MD
Mouaz Al-Mallah, MD, Khaled Dajani, M...
The current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines recommend coronary angiography and revascularization for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) and high-risk clinical...
The current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines recommend coronary angiography and revascularization for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) and high-risk clinical...
The current American College of...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Deepak Jain, MD, Karl Wegscheider, MD, Franz Hartmann, MD, Raoul Bonan, MD, Philip Urban, MD, Heribert Schunkert, MD
Deepak Jain, MD, Karl Wegscheider, MD...
Intracoronary radiation therapy, by virtue of its antiproliferative and favorable remodeling effects, reduces restenosis in both in-stent restenosis (ISR) and de novo lesions. While several large, randomized and non-randomised trials have...
Intracoronary radiation therapy, by virtue of its antiproliferative and favorable remodeling effects, reduces restenosis in both in-stent restenosis (ISR) and de novo lesions. While several large, randomized and non-randomised trials have...
Intracoronary radiation therapy,...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Mario Zanchetta, MD, Gianluca Rigatelli, MD, Luigi Pedon, MD, Marco Zennaro, MD, Antonio Carrozza, MD, *Eustaquio Onorato, MD
Mario Zanchetta, MD, Gianluca Rigatel...
Transcatheter closure of single secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) or patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a well-accepted alternative to surgical repair in selected patients,1 and intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has been demonstrated to be...
Transcatheter closure of single secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) or patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a well-accepted alternative to surgical repair in selected patients,1 and intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has been demonstrated to be...
Transcatheter closure of single...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Feature

Case Report
08/01/2008
Paul B. Poommipanit, MD, Mark Lensky, MD, Jonathan Tobis, MD
Paul B. Poommipanit, MD, Mark Lensky,...
A 43-year-old Chinese woman with eosinophilia and a swollen neck was found to have extensive aneurysmal dilatation of both carotid arteries. Although there were no anginal symptoms, cardiac investigation revealed an abnormal radionuclide...
A 43-year-old Chinese woman with eosinophilia and a swollen neck was found to have extensive aneurysmal dilatation of both carotid arteries. Although there were no anginal symptoms, cardiac investigation revealed an abnormal radionuclide...
A 43-year-old Chinese woman with...
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Case Report
08/01/2008
Italo Porto, MD and Adrian P. Banning, MD
Italo Porto, MD and Adrian P. Banning...
Since we have entered the new “drug-eluting stent era,” managing drug-eluting stent (DES) failure has become a real issue for the interventionalists. So far, no approach has been recommended: intracoronary brachytherapy (IBT) might be...
Since we have entered the new “drug-eluting stent era,” managing drug-eluting stent (DES) failure has become a real issue for the interventionalists. So far, no approach has been recommended: intracoronary brachytherapy (IBT) might be...
Since we have entered the new...
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Case Report
08/01/2008
Mauricio G. Cohen, MD
Mauricio G. Cohen, MD
Patients with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of heart failure. According to the United States Renal Data System, nearly 40% of incident dialysis patients had a clinical diagnosis of heart failure.1 Furthermore, deterioration in...
Patients with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of heart failure. According to the United States Renal Data System, nearly 40% of incident dialysis patients had a clinical diagnosis of heart failure.1 Furthermore, deterioration in...
Patients with chronic kidney...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Angela Hoye MB ChB, MRCP, Pedro A. Lemos MD, Patrick W. Serruys MD, PhD
Angela Hoye MB ChB, MRCP, Pedro A. Le...
The major limitation of percutaneous therapy (PCI) for the treatment of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) is the inability to cross with a wire. We report successful recanalization of a CTO situated at the ostium of the left anterior descending...
The major limitation of percutaneous therapy (PCI) for the treatment of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) is the inability to cross with a wire. We report successful recanalization of a CTO situated at the ostium of the left anterior descending...
The major limitation of...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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