Volume 18 - Issue 6 - June, 2006
Feature
Review
08/01/2008
The elderly patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) poses unique challenges in clinical management. The basic problem is that there are insufficient data from dedicated clinical trials to provide a framework for decision making. Clinical...
The elderly patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) poses unique challenges in clinical management. The basic problem is that there are insufficient data from dedicated clinical trials to provide a framework for decision making. Clinical...
The elderly patient with...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Continued (Part II of II)
Cardiogenic Shock
Although several registries suggest that elderly patients who present with cardiogenic shock have a significant improvement in survival with PCI, neither the SHOCK trial nor the Northern New...
Continued (Part II of II)
Cardiogenic Shock
Although several registries suggest that elderly patients who present with cardiogenic shock have a significant improvement in survival with PCI, neither the SHOCK trial nor the Northern New...
Continued (Part II of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Recent case reports of late stent thrombosis following the discontinuation of aspirin have raised the concern that drug-eluting stents might be more prone to this complication. McFadden et al reported on 4 patients, 2 who received a...
Recent case reports of late stent thrombosis following the discontinuation of aspirin have raised the concern that drug-eluting stents might be more prone to this complication. McFadden et al reported on 4 patients, 2 who received a...
Recent case reports of late...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Exposure to contrast media occasionally induces acute renal disturbance, often called contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).1–3 Although the impairment is transient and function spontaneously recovers in most cases, irreversible damage occurs in...
Exposure to contrast media occasionally induces acute renal disturbance, often called contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).1–3 Although the impairment is transient and function spontaneously recovers in most cases, irreversible damage occurs in...
Exposure to contrast media...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Case Report. A 43-year-old Caucasian male was admitted with prolonged central chest pain. His initial ECG demonstrated ST depression in leads II, III, aVf and V2–V6. He received aspirin 300 mg, a loading dose of clopidogrel 300 mg (followed...
Case Report. A 43-year-old Caucasian male was admitted with prolonged central chest pain. His initial ECG demonstrated ST depression in leads II, III, aVf and V2–V6. He received aspirin 300 mg, a loading dose of clopidogrel 300 mg (followed...
Case Report. A 43-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Percutaneous transcatheter alcohol septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) is an effective alternative to septal myectomy for symptomatic patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).1–6 While alleviating symptoms for most...
Percutaneous transcatheter alcohol septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) is an effective alternative to septal myectomy for symptomatic patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).1–6 While alleviating symptoms for most...
Percutaneous transcatheter...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Left main coronary artery occlusion is a rare occurrence that is often fatal. It usually manifests as an acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and/or fatal arrhythmias. This circumstance is rarely observed, as most patients...
Left main coronary artery occlusion is a rare occurrence that is often fatal. It usually manifests as an acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and/or fatal arrhythmias. This circumstance is rarely observed, as most patients...
Left main coronary artery...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography in the current era is a remarkably safe procedure, yet major complications do occur. Many of these complications are related to vascular access. Although discomfort at the site of access is frequent and minor...
Diagnostic coronary angiography...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
The aim in the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction is the early restoration of TIMI 3 blood flow in the infarct related artery.1 Primary angioplasty during an acute myocardial infarction achieves this objective but is associated...
The aim in the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction is the early restoration of TIMI 3 blood flow in the infarct related artery.1 Primary angioplasty during an acute myocardial infarction achieves this objective but is associated...
The aim in the treatment of...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
