Volume 19 - Issue 2 - February, 2007
Feature
Case Report
08/01/2008
Case Report. A 32-year-old male suffered cardiac arrest out of hospital, was successfully resuscitated and transferred to our tertiary cardiac unit where we performed coronary angiography. Despite multiple attempts, the left main coronary...
Case Report. A 32-year-old male suffered cardiac arrest out of hospital, was successfully resuscitated and transferred to our tertiary cardiac unit where we performed coronary angiography. Despite multiple attempts, the left main coronary...
Case Report. A 32-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
A backup temporary pacing wire is often used in patients with heart block undergoing cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It is particularly recommended for any patient undergoing rotational atherectomy or...
A backup temporary pacing wire is often used in patients with heart block undergoing cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It is particularly recommended for any patient undergoing rotational atherectomy or...
A backup temporary pacing wire...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Case Report
The patient is a 62-year-old male with a past medical history significant for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary artery disease. In October 2004, he developed congestive heart failure and was diagnosed with severe mitral...
Case Report
The patient is a 62-year-old male with a past medical history significant for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary artery disease. In October 2004, he developed congestive heart failure and was diagnosed with severe mitral...
Case Report
The patient is a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have, for the most part, replaced bare-metal stents (BMS) as a safe and effective therapeutic modality for treating coronary stenosis. Post-DES restenosis with sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) or paclitaxel-eluting...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have, for the most part, replaced bare-metal stents (BMS) as a safe and effective therapeutic modality for treating coronary stenosis. Post-DES restenosis with sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) or paclitaxel-eluting...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have,...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
Case Report. A 57-year-old white female school teacher had undergone mitral valve replacement 8 months earlier for streptococcal endocarditis and had required subsequent repair of a paravalvular leak 2 months later. The patient recently fell...
Case Report. A 57-year-old white female school teacher had undergone mitral valve replacement 8 months earlier for streptococcal endocarditis and had required subsequent repair of a paravalvular leak 2 months later. The patient recently fell...
Case Report. A 57-year-old white...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
08/01/2008
An 83-year-old male with a recent history of arterial hypertension and progressive renal failure was referred for an elective percutaneous intervention of a bilateral renal artery stenosis, i.e., an ostial lesion of a left inferior renal...
An 83-year-old male with a recent history of arterial hypertension and progressive renal failure was referred for an elective percutaneous intervention of a bilateral renal artery stenosis, i.e., an ostial lesion of a left inferior renal...
An 83-year-old male with a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Targeted renal therapy (TRT) with direct intrarenal artery fenoldopam (FEN) infusions were used to treat a multifactorial acute renal failure (ARF) patient with acute limb ischemia, contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) and sepsis. TRT was...
Targeted renal therapy (TRT) with direct intrarenal artery fenoldopam (FEN) infusions were used to treat a multifactorial acute renal failure (ARF) patient with acute limb ischemia, contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) and sepsis. TRT was...
Targeted renal therapy (TRT)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Hypertensive emergency (also referred to as malignant hypertension) is defined by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) as severe elevation in...
Hypertensive emergency (also referred to as malignant hypertension) is defined by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) as severe elevation in...
Hypertensive emergency (also...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Arterial revascularization by means of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is being increasingly used for the treatment of patients with severely symptomatic peripheral artery disease (i.e., those with critical limb ischemia). This...
Arterial revascularization by means of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is being increasingly used for the treatment of patients with severely symptomatic peripheral artery disease (i.e., those with critical limb ischemia). This...
Arterial revascularization by...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Bare-metal stents (BMS) lower the risk of restenosis and the need for repeat coronary revascularization compared to balloon angioplasty alone.1 The introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has further markedly decreased angiographic...
Bare-metal stents (BMS) lower the risk of restenosis and the need for repeat coronary revascularization compared to balloon angioplasty alone.1 The introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has further markedly decreased angiographic...
Bare-metal stents (BMS) lower...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
