Volume 19 - Issue 11 - November, 2007
Feature
Case Report
08/01/2008
Variant angina is more frequently seen in East Asia than in the West. It may be associated with acute myocardial infarction, severe cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death. Most patients obtain sufficient relief by vasodilator drug management...
Variant angina is more frequently seen in East Asia than in the West. It may be associated with acute myocardial infarction, severe cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death. Most patients obtain sufficient relief by vasodilator drug management...
Variant angina is more...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
The undilatable lesion requiring rotational atherectomy is an uncommon occurrence with the current availability of noncompliant balloons and other methods of “focused-force” angioplasty. The use of noncompliant balloons, or a “buddy” cutting...
The undilatable lesion requiring rotational atherectomy is an uncommon occurrence with the current availability of noncompliant balloons and other methods of “focused-force” angioplasty. The use of noncompliant balloons, or a “buddy” cutting...
The undilatable lesion requiring...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Negative remodeling is a condition in which the vessel area decreases in size, often as a result of a structural change in the coronary vessel wall. It is a major factor in restenosis following balloon angioplasty, but its contribution to...
Negative remodeling is a condition in which the vessel area decreases in size, often as a result of a structural change in the coronary vessel wall. It is a major factor in restenosis following balloon angioplasty, but its contribution to...
Negative remodeling is a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Since the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) in clinical practice, it has become clear that percutaneous revascularization of multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) could be more effective in terms of event reduction (major adverse...
Since the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) in clinical practice, it has become clear that percutaneous revascularization of multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) could be more effective in terms of event reduction (major adverse...
Since the introduction of...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Review
08/01/2008
Aortic stenosis is the most common valvular heart disease in the Western world and its prevalence is increasing with an aging population. Critical aortic stenosis affects an estimated 3% of individuals over 75 years of age.1 Without...
Aortic stenosis is the most common valvular heart disease in the Western world and its prevalence is increasing with an aging population. Critical aortic stenosis affects an estimated 3% of individuals over 75 years of age.1 Without...
Aortic stenosis is the most...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Early reperfusion after coronary occlusion reduces the extent of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as well as mortality.1 However, reperfusion itself may cause damage to surviving myocardium, the so-called “reperfusion injury”.2 Neutrophils...
Early reperfusion after coronary occlusion reduces the extent of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as well as mortality.1 However, reperfusion itself may cause damage to surviving myocardium, the so-called “reperfusion injury”.2 Neutrophils...
Early reperfusion after coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Treatment of isolated coronary stenoses involving the ostium of the left anterior descending (LAD) or circumflex (LCX) artery is challenging for the interventionalist. Although focal stenting is often attempted, it may result in incomplete...
Treatment of isolated coronary stenoses involving the ostium of the left anterior descending (LAD) or circumflex (LCX) artery is challenging for the interventionalist. Although focal stenting is often attempted, it may result in incomplete...
Treatment of isolated coronary...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Insights
Commentary
08/01/2008
Optimal revascularization strategy for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease has been, and remains, a topic of controversy. Rapid technological advances in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) such as the introduction of new...
Optimal revascularization strategy for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease has been, and remains, a topic of controversy. Rapid technological advances in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) such as the introduction of new...
Optimal revascularization...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Optimal revascularization strategy for patients with multivessel
coronary artery disease has been, and remains, a topic
of controversy. Rapid technological advances in percutaneous
coronary interventions (PCI) such as the introduction of...
Optimal revascularization strategy for patients with multivessel
coronary artery disease has been, and remains, a topic
of controversy. Rapid technological advances in percutaneous
coronary interventions (PCI) such as the introduction of...
Optimal revascularization...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
08/01/2008
Besides the inherent risk involved in an angioplasty of a major vessel supplying a large myocardial area, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of left main coronary artery (LMCA) branch ostial disease is fraught with some unique problems,...
Besides the inherent risk involved in an angioplasty of a major vessel supplying a large myocardial area, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of left main coronary artery (LMCA) branch ostial disease is fraught with some unique problems,...
Besides the inherent risk...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
