Complex Interventions

Case Report

Successful PCI of a Bifurcation Lesion Using “Reverse Wire” Technique With a Dual-Lumen Microcatheter

11/05/2019

Paolo Canova, MD, Keisuke Satogami, MD, Luigi Fiocca, MD, Alberto Cereda, MD, Interventional Cath Lab, Cardiovascular Department, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Paolo Canova, MD, Keisuke Satogami, M...

This procedure was first developed by Kavasaki et al in 20083, but the technique has been improved over the following years with the addition of a dual-lumen microcatheter to more easily engage the narrow, angulated side branch.

This procedure was first...

11/05/2019

Cath Lab Digest

Getting a Balloon Through in Complex PCI: Crossing Made Easier

07/08/2019

Cath Lab Digest talks with J. Aaron Grantham, MD, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, about his work and experience with the Takeru PTCA balloon (Terumo Interventional Systems).

Cath Lab Digest talks with J. Aaron G...

I do 250-300 percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures per year, and 60-70% of those procedures are chronic total occlusions (CTOs) or complex high-risk indicated procedures (CHIP). It is important to emphasize that these procedures...

I do 250-300 percutaneous...

07/08/2019

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Noncompliant, High-Pressure Balloon and Calcified, Undilatable Coronary Lesions

07/08/2019

Amin Bahloul, MD, Hela Sarray, MD, Yassmine Kammoun, MD,
Tarek Ellouz, MD, Mourad Hentati, MD, PhD, Leila Abid, MD, PhD,
Samir Kammoun, MD, PhD, Cardiology Department, Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia

Amin Bahloul, MD, Hela Sarray, MD, Ya...

Optimal stent deployment can become a challenge for the interventional cardiologist, especially when it involves calcified, undilatable lesions. Various technologies have been developed to tackle this scenario and the super high-pressure...

Optimal stent deployment can...

07/08/2019

Cath Lab Digest

ECG Primer for the Cath: What Does a Tall R Wave in V1 Mean? The Four Categories Approach

06/07/2019

Leo Ungar¹, MD, Teferi Mitiku², MD, Morton Kern³, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Leo Ungar1, MD, Teferi Mitiku2, MD, M...

Your cath patient is in the lab and the electrocardiogram (ECG) shows a tall R wave in V1 (defined as an R wave amplitude that is greater than that of the S wave). What should you be thinking about and what is the differential for this...

Your cath patient is in the lab...

06/07/2019

Cath Lab Digest