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Case Study

Primary Cardiac Angiosarcoma Presenting as a Rapidly Growing Right Atrial Mass

07/10/2017

Vatsal Bhatt , MS;

Christopher Maulion , MD;

George Batsides , MD;

Joseph Ibrahim , MD, MS-IV, MS-II;

Pratik B. Patel , MD, FACC;

We present a case of a 44-year-old woman who presented with exertional dyspnea and was found to have a 7.0 cm x 3.5 cm right atrial mass on transthoracic echocardiogram that required surgical resection.

We present a case of a...

07/10/2017

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Case Report

Mitral Valve Reconstruction in a Patient With Functional MR on Maximal Medical Therapy

04/10/2017

Georg Nickenig , MD;

Robert Schueler , MD;

Interventional mitral valve repair provided an option for treatment of MR-related symptoms in this case where medical therapy failed to improve the clinical and functional status.

Interventional mitral valve...

04/10/2017

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Case Series

Use of GuideLiner to Facilitate Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Three Patients With Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Arising from the Left Coronary Sinus

12/06/2016

C.M. Wong , MBChB, FRCP, FACC, FHKAM, FHKCP, FSCAI;

William K.K. Hui , MBBS, FRCP, FACC, FHKAM, FHKCP;

We report our experience on successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with the use of the GuideLiner (Vascular Solutions) in three patients presenting with angina whose culprit lesions were located in the RCA with this anomaly.

We report our experience on...

12/06/2016

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Case Report

Novel Strategy for Percutaneous Access Closure in Patients With Zero Tolerance for Bleeding

12/06/2016

Dipankar Mukherjee , MD, FACS;

Liam Ryan , MD;

Therese Federowicz , MD;

Tony Tallant , RT(R);

Complications related to arterial access continue to plague the interventionalist, despite advances in vessel closure technology.

Complications related to...

12/06/2016

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Transradial Series

How to Avoid Sacrificing the Benefits of Transradial PCI in Complex Patient Subsets

12/06/2016

Karishma Kaushik , MD;

Samir B. Pancholy , MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI;

We describe a case where transradial access was used in the setting of complex primary PCI of the right coronary artery (RCA), using appropriate escalation of techniques known to enhance guide support without sacrificing the usual metrics...

We describe a case where...

12/06/2016

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Case Report

Simultaneous Double-Vessel Acute Stent Thrombosis of Drug-Eluting Stents: Double Trouble

11/02/2016

Nirdesh Jain , MD;

Sharad Chandra , MD, DM, FACC;

Rishi Sethi , MD, DM, FACC, FESC;

Sudhanshu Kumar Dwivedi , MD, DM, FSCAI;

Varun Shankar Narain , MD, DM;

Gaurav Chaudhary , MD, DM;

We report a case of simultaneous acute stent thrombosis of drug-eluting stents in two vessels (the right coronary artery and left circumflex artery).

We report a case of simultaneous...

11/02/2016

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Case Report

Transcatheter Management of Post Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture With Concomitant Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

09/05/2016

Khalid Amber , FACC, FSCAI, FESC;

Hussein A. Alsalkhi , MD;

Ahmed N. Rajeeb , MD;

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) or rupture (VSR) after acute myocardial infarction is an uncommon but catastrophic event with poor prognosis. Immediate surgical closure with hemodynamic support (such as an intra-aortic balloon pump or IABP)...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD)...

09/05/2016

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Coronary Atherectomy and Transradial Access Part II of III: Rotational Atherectomy

09/05/2016

Zaheed Tai , MD, DO, FACC, FSCAI;

In this second article in the series, we will present cases illustrating the clinical applications of each device followed by a brief discussion.

In this second article in the...

09/05/2016

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Intravascular-Ultrasound Assisted Localization and Revascularization of an Ostial Chronic Total Occlusion: Utility of Near-Field and Far-Field Imaging

02/24/2015

Eric L. Wallace , DO;

Khaled M. Ziada , MD;

We demonstrate the utility of intravascular ultrasound imaging in the localization of an ambiguous or “stump-less” ostial CTO in addition to providing real-time far-field imaging, which is helpful in tracking wire progress through the...

We demonstrate the utility of...

02/24/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Percutaneous Transcatheter Balloon Valvuloplasty for Bioprosthetic Tricuspid Valve Stenosis in a patient With Orthotopic Heart Transplant

02/24/2015

Nikolaos Kakouros , MBBS, PhD, MRCP, MD(Res);

Jeffrey Shih , MD;

Gaurav Rana , MBBS;

A 47-year-old man with history of familial cardiomyopathy and orthotopic heart transplant at the age of 34 years presented severe tricuspid stenosis (TS) with a mean transvalvular gradient of 10 mm Hg. To the best of our knowledge, this is...

A 47-year-old man with history...

02/24/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology