Carlos Cafri, MD

Clinical Videos

Mitral Transcatheter-Edge‐to‐Edge Repair in Failed Mitral Valve Repair

02/03/2025

Aref El Nasasra , MD;

Artyom Star , MD;

;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

Hilmi Alnsasra , MD;

Video Supplement to "Mitral Transcatheter-Edge‐to‐Edge Repair in Failed Mitral Valve Repair" (Clinical Image).

Video Supplement to "Mitral...

02/03/2025

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Images

Mitral Transcatheter-Edge‐to‐Edge Repair in Failed Mitral Valve Repair

02/03/2025

Aref El Nasasra , MD;

Artyom Star , MD;

;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

Hilmi Alnsasra , MD;

A 63-year-old man underwent mitral valve (MV) repair with a 28-mm Cosgrove-Edwards annuloplasty ring (Edwards Lifesciences) in 1999 due to severe primary mitral regurgitation. He did well until recently, when he was recurrently admitted with...

A 63-year-old man underwent...

02/03/2025

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Medical Treatment Versus Angioplasty for Isolated Ostial Diagonal Stenoses: A Comparative Clinical Follow-up

04/26/2012

Arik Wolak , MD;

Reuben Ilia , MD;

Jean Marc Weinstein , MRCP;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

Abstract: Objectives. Angioplasty of a stenosis at the ostium of a diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery as an isolated lesion often poses a dilemma due to the risk involved in treating the lesion in comparison to the...

Abstract: Objectives....

04/26/2012

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Improved Procedural Results in Coronary Thrombosis Are Obtained with Delayed Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

08/01/2008

Sergio Kobal , MD;

Reuben Illia , MD;

Ran Svirsky , BSc;

Julian Zelingher , MD, MSc, MPH;

Osvaldo Slutzky , MD;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

Jean Marc Weinstein , MRCP;

Harel Gilutz , MD;

ABSTRACT: We investigated the efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in coronary thrombotic lesions according to the timing of the procedure. Eighty-two patients who underwent immediate PCI (IPCI) were compared to 24 patients...

ABSTRACT: We investigated the...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Simple Clinical Risk Stratification and the Safety of Ambulation Two Hours After 6 French Diagnostic Heart Catheterization

08/01/2008

Sergei Yeroslavtsev , MD;

Akram Abuful , MD;

Shmuel Fuchs , MD;

Reuben Ilia , MD;

Jean Marc Weinstein , MRCP;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

G. Rosenstein , MD;

ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4–6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...

ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Simple Clinical Risk Stratification and the Safety of Ambulation Two Hours After 6 French Diagnostic Heart Catheterization

06/19/2008

Shmuel Fuchs , MD;

Reuben Ilia , MD;

Jean Marc Weinstein , MRCP;

Sergei Yeroslavtsev , MD;

Akram Abuful , MD;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

G. Rosenstein , MD;

ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Simple Clinical Risk Stratification and the Safety of Ambulation Two Hours After 6 French Diagnostic Heart Catheterization

06/19/2008

Shmuel Fuchs , MD;

Sergei Yeroslavtsev , MD;

Reuben Ilia , MD;

Akram Abuful , MD;

Jean Marc Weinstein , MRCP;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

G. Rosenstein , MD;

ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization...

06/19/2008

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Fracture of a Coronary Guidewire During Graft Thrombectomy With the X-Sizer Device

08/01/2008

Carlos Cafri , MD;

G. Rosenstein , MD;

R. Illia , MD;

ABSTRACT: We present the first case reported of fracture of a coronary guidewire during thrombectomy of a massive thrombus in a recently occluded coronary bypass graft with the recently developed atherectomy catheter X-Sizer. The thrombus was...

ABSTRACT: We present the first...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

The Diagnostic Importance of Angiographic Visualization of the Distal Vessel in Elucidating the Mechanism of Abrupt Vessel Closu

08/01/2008

Shmuel Fuchs , MD;

Jean Marc Weinstein , MRCP;

Carlos Cafri , MD;

Georgeta Esanu , MD;

Reuben Illia , MD;

Osvaldo Slutzky , MD;

Acute vessel closure is a serious event, complicating 0.5–9.3% of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), and is associated with major clinical adverse events including emergency coronary bypass surgery, acute myocardial infarction and...

Acute vessel closure is a...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Complex Case Intervention

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Caused by Coronary Artery Compression due to Localized Pericardial Hematoma Caused by Coronary Perforation

01/03/2011

Carlos Cafri , MD;

Aryeh Shalev , MD;

Doron Zahger , MD;

ABSTRACT: Coronary perforation is a rare but serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We report a case of coronary perforation during PCI in a post cardiac surgery patient presenting as unusual ST-segment elevation...

ABSTRACT: Coronary perforation...

01/03/2011

Journal of Invasive Cardiology