Volume 19 - Issue 3 - March, 2007
Feature
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
I’m going to give you a perspective on where we see the current state of carotid artery stenting from the regulatory and reimbursement perspectives, and perhaps a bit of technical unmet needs and future prospects. Obviously, this is going to...
I’m going to give you a perspective on where we see the current state of carotid artery stenting from the regulatory and reimbursement perspectives, and perhaps a bit of technical unmet needs and future prospects. Obviously, this is going to...
I’m going to give you a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
First of all, I would like to thank the organizers of this meeting, particularly Dr. Michael Cowley, who asked me to attend. It’s an honor to be here. As a biochemist who has spent most of his life with his head in the “cell-culture”...
First of all, I would like to thank the organizers of this meeting, particularly Dr. Michael Cowley, who asked me to attend. It’s an honor to be here. As a biochemist who has spent most of his life with his head in the “cell-culture”...
First of all, I would like to...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
When I think about the way we treat carotid disease, I see a great example of multiple specialties that are not working together. Everybody has something to offer the specialty of carotid stenting, and everybody, in my view, needs to possess...
When I think about the way we treat carotid disease, I see a great example of multiple specialties that are not working together. Everybody has something to offer the specialty of carotid stenting, and everybody, in my view, needs to possess...
When I think about the way we...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
L. Nelson (Nick) Hopkins, MD
L. Nelson (Nick) Hopkins, MD
David Holmes really set the stage with his discussion, but let me also summarize what stroke means today. After suffering a major stroke, one-third of patients will recover, one-third will die, and one-third will be wrecked; it’s the latter...
David Holmes really set the stage with his discussion, but let me also summarize what stroke means today. After suffering a major stroke, one-third of patients will recover, one-third will die, and one-third will be wrecked; it’s the latter...
David Holmes really set the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Madhavi Kadiyala, MD, H. Scott Beasley, MD, Ashish Dua, MD
Madhavi Kadiyala, MD, H. Scott Beasle...
Case Report. A 50-year-old Caucasian male with no significant past medical history presented to our institution with sudden onset of shortness of breath. He admitted to having exertional chest pressure and shortness of breath for a few years....
Case Report. A 50-year-old Caucasian male with no significant past medical history presented to our institution with sudden onset of shortness of breath. He admitted to having exertional chest pressure and shortness of breath for a few years....
Case Report. A 50-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Azeem Latib, MB BCh, Simon Corbett, MD, Antonio Colombo, MD
Azeem Latib, MB BCh, Simon Corbett, M...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) remain one of the most technically challenging areas of coronary intervention. As a result, new innovative techniques are continually being developed in an effort to improve the procedural success rate of CTO...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) remain one of the most technically challenging areas of coronary intervention. As a result, new innovative techniques are continually being developed in an effort to improve the procedural success rate of CTO...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings
08/01/2008
David Holmes, MD, Moderator
David Holmes, MD, Moderator
We’re going to move on to the second session entitled: Contemporary Prevention, Management and Treatment of Stroke — Who Will Treat Acute Stroke in 2010 and How Will It Be Treated?The data on this first slide (Figure 1) show the magnitude of...
We’re going to move on to the second session entitled: Contemporary Prevention, Management and Treatment of Stroke — Who Will Treat Acute Stroke in 2010 and How Will It Be Treated?The data on this first slide (Figure 1) show the magnitude of...
We’re going to move on to the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC
Case Report. A 75-year-old male presented to our catheterization laboratory with exertional shortness of breath (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class 2–3) and a positive dipyridamole nuclear scan with ischemia in the infero-lateral territory...
Case Report. A 75-year-old male presented to our catheterization laboratory with exertional shortness of breath (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class 2–3) and a positive dipyridamole nuclear scan with ischemia in the infero-lateral territory...
Case Report. A 75-year-old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
*Mihai Iacob, MD, *Florina Pinte, MD, §Ion Tintoiu, MD
*Mihai Iacob, MD, *Florina Pinte, MD,...
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are occasionally reported among patients undergoing coronary angiography, with an incidence varying from 0.3% to approximate 5%.1,2 More than half of CAAs are due to coronary atherosclerosis, but occasionally...
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are occasionally reported among patients undergoing coronary angiography, with an incidence varying from 0.3% to approximate 5%.1,2 More than half of CAAs are due to coronary atherosclerosis, but occasionally...
Coronary artery aneurysms...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
