Victor Lim, MD

High-Frequency Mechanical Vibration to Recanalize Chronic Total Occlusions after Failure to Cross with Conventional Guidewires

08/01/2008

Ioannis Iakovou , MD;

Victor Lim , MD;

Lutz Buellesfeld , MD;

Gabor Sütsch , MD;

Giancarlo Vitrella , MD;

Eberhard Grube , MD;

Antonio Colombo , MD;

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) remains one of the more difficult technical challenges for interventional cardiologists, despite the progress made in the field of PCI in the past decade. CTOs (found...

Percutaneous coronary...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Evaluation of a New Polymer-Coated Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent
for Treatment of De Novo Lesions: Six-Month Clinical and Angiograph

08/01/2008

Ulrich Gerckens , MD;

Victor Lim , MD;

Ralf Mueller , MD;

Thomas Schmidt , MD;

Lutz Buellesfeld , MD;

Eberhard Grube , MD;

In-stent restenosis as a result of excessive neointimal proliferation is the main limiting factor to the long-term success of coronary stenting, but the advent of drug-eluting stents has reduced this problem significantly. Paclitaxel is an...

In-stent restenosis as a result...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology