Anomalies

Clinical Editor's Corner

What Should We Do With an Anomalous Coronary Artery (ALCA) With a Malignant Left Main Course in an Asymptomatic Patient?

05/07/2018

Morton J. Kern, compiler, with contributions from Andrew Doorey, Christiana Hospital, Delaware; Kirk Garratt, Christiana Hospital, Delaware; John Hirshfeld, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; David Kandzari, Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Michael Lim, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; Jeffery Moses, Columbia University, New York, New York; Pinak Bipin Shah, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Will Suh, University of California, Los Angeles, California; Paul Teirstein, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Chris White, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; George Vetrovec, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Jeannie Yu, VA Long Beach, California

Morton J. Kern, compiler, with contri...

Dr. Paul Teirstein, Chief of Cardiology, at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, asked our cath lab experts for their opinions on what to do with an asymptomatic executive who had a screening CTA (Figure 1).

Dr. Paul Teirstein, Chief of...

05/07/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Myocardial Bridging in the Setting of Dilated Myocardiopathy

04/04/2018

Virginia Perez-Andreu¹, MD, PhD, Michael Tedla¹, MD, Hossein Akhondi¹, MD, FACP, Dominic Robine², DO, FACC, Ali R. Rahimi¹, MD, FACP, AGSF, Navid Kazemi², MD, FACC

Virginia Perez-Andreu1, MD, PhD, Mich...

Myocardial bridge (MB) is a congenital anatomic variant that occurs when one of the coronary arteries tunnels through the myocardium instead of having a normal epicardial course.1

Myocardial bridge (MB) is a...

04/04/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Septal Sobriety: Aborted Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Diffuse Coronary-Cameral Fistulae

03/03/2016

Loren Garrison Morgan, MD, Arun Kumar Nagabandi, MBBS, Paul Poommipanit, MD, FACC, FSCAI, The Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Augusta, Georgia

Loren Garrison Morgan, MD, Arun Kumar...

The extravasation of echocontrast into this patient’s ventricles after selective engagement of the septal perforators was indicative of severe, diffuse coronary-cameral fistulae.

The extravasation of...

03/03/2016

Cath Lab Digest