Volume 18 - Issue 8 - August, 2006
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In-stent restenosis is the result of neointimal hyperplasia that, by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging, typically has a homogeneous, echoreflective appearance. Histological and immunohistochemical analyses of “typical” in-stent...
In-stent restenosis is the result of neointimal hyperplasia that, by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging, typically has a homogeneous, echoreflective appearance. Histological and immunohistochemical analyses of “typical” in-stent...
In-stent restenosis is the...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
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Percutaneous intervention of coronary ostial stenoses carries a lower procedural success rate and a higher likelihood of acute complication and need for repeat revascularization. Technical challenges related to the treatment of ostial side...
Percutaneous intervention of coronary ostial stenoses carries a lower procedural success rate and a higher likelihood of acute complication and need for repeat revascularization. Technical challenges related to the treatment of ostial side...
Percutaneous intervention of...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
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Aortic stenosis (AS) is commonly encountered by cardiologists. Assessment of AS is routinely performed with Doppler echocardiography, but cardiac catheterization has an important role in the assessment of patients with inconclusive...
Aortic stenosis (AS) is commonly encountered by cardiologists. Assessment of AS is routinely performed with Doppler echocardiography, but cardiac catheterization has an important role in the assessment of patients with inconclusive...
Aortic stenosis (AS) is commonly...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
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Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a frequent finding in young patients with cryptogenic stroke.1–4 PFO has also been related to migraine,5 platypnea-orthodoxia syndrome (condition in which shortness of breath and hypoxemia occur when upright and...
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a frequent finding in young patients with cryptogenic stroke.1–4 PFO has also been related to migraine,5 platypnea-orthodoxia syndrome (condition in which shortness of breath and hypoxemia occur when upright and...
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
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Recent randomized trials have established that patients who present with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (MI) may be managed with low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) followed by early angiography and by...
Recent randomized trials have established that patients who present with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (MI) may be managed with low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) followed by early angiography and by...
Recent randomized trials have...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Insights
Commentary
08/01/2008
Bae et al describe the use of a pressure wire in conjunction with a 5–6 Fr guiding catheter to measure transvalvular gradients in 18 patients with aortic stenosis.1 The method is clearly technically feasible, and correlated well with...
Bae et al describe the use of a pressure wire in conjunction with a 5–6 Fr guiding catheter to measure transvalvular gradients in 18 patients with aortic stenosis.1 The method is clearly technically feasible, and correlated well with...
Bae et al describe the use of a...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
In this issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Alaeddini et al report on the incidence of atrial tachyarrhythmias (AT) in their series of 71 patients who had closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) performed for cryptogenic stroke or...
In this issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Alaeddini et al report on the incidence of atrial tachyarrhythmias (AT) in their series of 71 patients who had closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) performed for cryptogenic stroke or...
In this issue of the Journal of...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
