Volume 19 - Issue 1 - January, 2007
Feature
Case Report
08/01/2008
*Vijay Trehan, MD, DM, **Girish M. Nair, MP MD, DM, **Mohit D. Gupta, MD, DM
*Vijay Trehan, MD, DM, **Girish M. N...
Subacute stent thrombosis (SAT), though less common in the era of dual antiplatelet therapy, continues to produce serious clinical consequences including major myocardial infarction and death.1 The treatment modalities described in the...
Subacute stent thrombosis (SAT), though less common in the era of dual antiplatelet therapy, continues to produce serious clinical consequences including major myocardial infarction and death.1 The treatment modalities described in the...
Subacute stent thrombosis (SAT),...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Sanjay Rajdev, MD, DM, William B. Hillegass, MD, Vijay Misra, MD
Sanjay Rajdev, MD, DM, William B. Hil...
Success of high-risk interventional procedures depends upon periprocedural hemodynamic stability. The TandemHeart™ (Cardiac Assist, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a percutaneous nonpulsatile centrifugal left ventricular (LV) assist device...
Success of high-risk interventional procedures depends upon periprocedural hemodynamic stability. The TandemHeart™ (Cardiac Assist, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a percutaneous nonpulsatile centrifugal left ventricular (LV) assist device...
Success of high-risk...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Richard J. Gumina, MD, PhD, Mark J. Callahan, MD, Joseph G. Murphy, MD
Richard J. Gumina, MD, PhD, Mark J. C...
Case Report. A 66-year-old female presented with new-onset angina and heart failure. Electrocardiography demonstrated chronic atria fibrillation and left axis deviation. Echocardiography demonstrated mild global left ventricular hypokinesia...
Case Report. A 66-year-old female presented with new-onset angina and heart failure. Electrocardiography demonstrated chronic atria fibrillation and left axis deviation. Echocardiography demonstrated mild global left ventricular hypokinesia...
Case Report. A 66-year-old...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Man-Hong Jim, MD, *Hee-Hwa Ho, MD, *Wing-Hing Chow, MD
Man-Hong Jim, MD, *Hee-Hwa Ho, MD, *W...
The combination of drug-eluting stents and the crush technique with final kissing balloon inflation for the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions is associated with superior clinical and angiographic outcomes.1,2 However, the crush...
The combination of drug-eluting stents and the crush technique with final kissing balloon inflation for the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions is associated with superior clinical and angiographic outcomes.1,2 However, the crush...
The combination of drug-eluting...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Hans-Heinrich Minden, MD, Sören Just, MD, Christian Butter, MD
Hans-Heinrich Minden, MD, Sören Just...
Injury of a native coronary vessel during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is very rare. We report on a 76-year-old patient who developed a large pseudoaneurysm of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) following CABG.
The patient...
Injury of a native coronary vessel during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is very rare. We report on a 76-year-old patient who developed a large pseudoaneurysm of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) following CABG.
The patient...
Injury of a native coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Manu Rajachandran, MD, Kelly Klym, MD, Madhu Salvaji, MD
Manu Rajachandran, MD, Kelly Klym, MD...
Pseudoaneurysm formation after vascular reconstruction is a rarely encountered problem in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. It has most commonly been described in the vascular surgical literature as a delayed complication of lower...
Pseudoaneurysm formation after vascular reconstruction is a rarely encountered problem in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. It has most commonly been described in the vascular surgical literature as a delayed complication of lower...
Pseudoaneurysm formation after...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Rapid Communication
08/01/2008
Iñigo Lozano, MD, PhD, FESC, Pablo Avanzas, MD, PhD, FESC, Dae-Hyun Lee, MD, Garikoitz Lasa, MD, Juan Rondán, MD, César Moris, MD, PhD, FESC
Iñigo Lozano, MD, PhD, FESC, Pablo A...
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in bifurcations represents 15–18% of all lesions treated1 and has traditionally been associated with more complexity and restenosis. It has been demonstrated with bare-metal stents (BMS) that the...
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in bifurcations represents 15–18% of all lesions treated1 and has traditionally been associated with more complexity and restenosis. It has been demonstrated with bare-metal stents (BMS) that the...
Percutaneous coronary...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Column
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, FACA
Editor-in-Chief
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, FACA
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Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes six original research articles, a review article, three submissions for Rapid Communication, two Clinical Images, and seven online case reports. These case reports...
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes six original research articles, a review article, three submissions for Rapid Communication, two Clinical Images, and seven online case reports. These case reports...
Dear Readers,
This issue of...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
aFarhan Aslam, MD, bA. Elias Iliadis, MD, cJames C. Blankenship, MD
aFarhan Aslam, MD, bA. Elias Iliadis...
Standard therapy for cryptogenic stroke in the setting of patent foramen ovale (PFO) includes antiplatelet medications and long-term anticoagulation with warfarin. Oral anticoagulation increases the risk of bleeding complications and may not...
Standard therapy for cryptogenic stroke in the setting of patent foramen ovale (PFO) includes antiplatelet medications and long-term anticoagulation with warfarin. Oral anticoagulation increases the risk of bleeding complications and may not...
Standard therapy for cryptogenic...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
The discipline of catheter-based closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) is still in its “childhood”. Ushered in by the seminal paper from Bridges et al in 1992,1 it is still hampered by amateurism, ghosts of old misconceptions, apprehension...
The discipline of catheter-based closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) is still in its “childhood”. Ushered in by the seminal paper from Bridges et al in 1992,1 it is still hampered by amateurism, ghosts of old misconceptions, apprehension...
The discipline of catheter-based...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
