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Volume 19 - Issue 6 - June, 2007

Feature

Case Report
08/01/2008
Yen-Dong Ho, MD, Tomomi Koizumi, MD, PhD, David P. Lee, MD
Yen-Dong Ho, MD, Tomomi Koizumi, MD,...
Case Report. A 46-year-old female presented to a community hospital with acute coronary syndrome. One week prior to presentation, the patient had experienced chest tightness lasting 1 hour, occurring 1 day after lifting furniture. On the day...
Case Report. A 46-year-old female presented to a community hospital with acute coronary syndrome. One week prior to presentation, the patient had experienced chest tightness lasting 1 hour, occurring 1 day after lifting furniture. On the day...
Case Report. A 46-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Prafulla Kerkar, MD, DM, Tilak Suvarna, MD, DM, Nitin Burkule, MD, DM, Ramakanta Panda, MS, MCh
Prafulla Kerkar, MD, DM, Tilak Suvar...
Ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a well recognized clinical entity that is relatively more common in Asian countries than in the Western world.1,2 The unruptured aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva is usually asymptomatic, however, when...
Ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a well recognized clinical entity that is relatively more common in Asian countries than in the Western world.1,2 The unruptured aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva is usually asymptomatic, however, when...
Ruptured sinus of Valsalva...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Alan J. Simons, MD, Ayman S. Iskander, MD, Ronald P. Caputo, MD
Alan J. Simons, MD, Ayman S. Iskande...
Advancing technologies have allowed percutaneous interventional procedures to safely and efficaciously treat challenging stenoses in the coronary and peripheral vascular systems. The embolization of soft atherosclerotic debris in the...
Advancing technologies have allowed percutaneous interventional procedures to safely and efficaciously treat challenging stenoses in the coronary and peripheral vascular systems. The embolization of soft atherosclerotic debris in the...
Advancing technologies have...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Kimberly A. Skelding, MD and Cleon R. Hubbard, MD
Kimberly A. Skelding, MD and Cleon R....
Coronary artery disease (CAD) has been recognized as the leading cause of mortality in women. Previously, it had been thought that estrogen provided a protective CAD effect, explaining the later development of disease in women. The Women’s...
Coronary artery disease (CAD) has been recognized as the leading cause of mortality in women. Previously, it had been thought that estrogen provided a protective CAD effect, explaining the later development of disease in women. The Women’s...
Coronary artery disease (CAD)...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC, Tarek Kashour, MD, FRCPC, Roger Philipp, MD, FRCPC
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC, Tarek Ka...
Dislodgement of a coronary stent in a coronary artery is a dreaded complication that occurs in a minority of patients. Factors that can increase the chances of stent detachment from the balloon catheter within a coronary artery can include...
Dislodgement of a coronary stent in a coronary artery is a dreaded complication that occurs in a minority of patients. Factors that can increase the chances of stent detachment from the balloon catheter within a coronary artery can include...
Dislodgement of a coronary stent...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Mazda Biria, MD, Peter Tadros, MD, Kamal Gupta, MD
Mazda Biria, MD, Peter Tadros, MD, ...
Vertebral artery (VA) stenting is an established method to treat occlusive disease in that artery. Available data indicate that it is a low-risk procedure with excellent periprocedural and long-term follow-up results.1–6 In most cases, the...
Vertebral artery (VA) stenting is an established method to treat occlusive disease in that artery. Available data indicate that it is a low-risk procedure with excellent periprocedural and long-term follow-up results.1–6 In most cases, the...
Vertebral artery (VA) stenting...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Jong-Seon Park, MD, Young-Jo Kim, MD, Geu-Ru Hong, MD
Jong-Seon Park, MD, Young-Jo Kim, MD...
The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) has become popular because of their favorable effects on clinical and angiographic outcomes.1–5 However, most clinical results have been reported on simple de novo lesions. In real-world practice, more...
The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) has become popular because of their favorable effects on clinical and angiographic outcomes.1–5 However, most clinical results have been reported on simple de novo lesions. In real-world practice, more...
The use of drug-eluting stents...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Peter Barlis, MBBS, MPH, FRACP, Jun Tanigawa, MD, Carlo Di Mario, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FRCP
Peter Barlis, MBBS, MPH, FRACP, Jun ...
Access to severely angulated coronary vessels and branches can represent a challenge, even for experienced interventionalists, and despite the use of modern highly steerable guidewires. Percutaneous treatment of such lesions also confers a...
Access to severely angulated coronary vessels and branches can represent a challenge, even for experienced interventionalists, and despite the use of modern highly steerable guidewires. Percutaneous treatment of such lesions also confers a...
Access to severely angulated...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Timothy A. Hacker, PhD, Michael O. Griffin, PhD, Brian Guttormsen, MD, Scott Stoker, BS, Matthew R. Wolff, MD
Timothy A. Hacker, PhD, Michael O. G...
Polymer-coated stents eluting either rapamycin or paclitaxel, drugs that prevent entry of VSMCs into the proliferative cell cycle and inhibit neointimal formation following arterial injury, have dramatically decreased the risk of restenosis...
Polymer-coated stents eluting either rapamycin or paclitaxel, drugs that prevent entry of VSMCs into the proliferative cell cycle and inhibit neointimal formation following arterial injury, have dramatically decreased the risk of restenosis...
Polymer-coated stents eluting...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Adrian Iancu, MD and *Alexandra Lazar, MD
Adrian Iancu, MD and *Alexandra Lazar...
Case Presentation. A 70-year-old male was admitted to our clinic with a diagnosis of severe hypertension, right carotid artery stenosis, recent right sylvian artery ischemic stroke, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and bilateral peripheral...
Case Presentation. A 70-year-old male was admitted to our clinic with a diagnosis of severe hypertension, right carotid artery stenosis, recent right sylvian artery ischemic stroke, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and bilateral peripheral...
Case Presentation. A 70-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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