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Steerable Microcatheter to Negotiate a Hairpin Angle During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

08/15/2024

Sotirios C. Kotoulas , MD;

Dimitrios Iliopoulos , MD;

Paschalis Latsios , MD;

Aikaterini Peteinaki , MD;

Efthymia Koutsogiannaki , MD;

Andreas S. Triantafyllis , MD, PhD;

A 50-year-old man with family history of coronary artery disease underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention due to an inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography revealed an occluded left circumflex artery.

A 50-year-old man with family...

08/15/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Brief Communication

External Validation of the JR-CTO Score in Retrograde Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention: From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry

08/14/2024

Pedro E.P. Carvalho , MD;

Athanasios Rempakos , MD;

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Michaella Alexandrou , MD;

Dimitrios Strepkos , MD;

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Olga C. Mastrodemos , BA;

Ahmed Al-Ogaili , MD;

M. Nicholas Burke , MD;

Yader Sandoval , MD;

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The authors evaluated the JR-CTO score’s performance in patients treated at 44 centers between 2013 and 2024 as part of the Prospective Global Registry for the Study of CTO Intervention (PROGRESS-CTO).

The authors evaluated the JR-CTO...

08/14/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Brief Communication

Ranolazine in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

04/30/2024

Michaella Alexandrou, MD¹; Deniz Mutlu, MD¹; Athanasios Rempakos, MD¹; Ahmed Al Ogaili, MD¹; James W. Choi, MD^2,3; Paul Poommipanit, MD⁴; Khaldoon Alaswad, MD⁵; Mir Babar Basir, DO⁵; Rhian Davies, DO, MS⁶; Farouc A. Jaffer, MD, PhD⁷; Phil Dattilo, MD⁸; Lorenzo Azzalini, MD, PhD, MSc⁹; Nazif Aygul, MD¹⁰; Niranjan Reddy, MD¹¹; Brian K. Jefferson, MD¹²; Sevket Gorgulu, MD¹³; Jaikirshan J. Khatri, MD¹⁴; Laura D. Young, MD¹⁴; Oleg Krestyaninov MD¹⁵; Dmitrii Khelimskii MD¹⁵; Jarrod Frizzell, MD¹⁶; Basem Elbarouni, MD¹⁷; Bavana V. Rangan, BDS, MPH¹; Olga C. Mastrodemos, BA¹; M. Nicholas Burke, MD¹; Yader Sandoval, MD¹; Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD¹

Michaella Alexandrou, MD1; Deniz Mutl...

The authors analyzed a large, multicenter chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) registry to determine the baseline clinical and angiographic characteristics and procedural outcomes of patients undergoing CTO...

The authors analyzed a large,...

04/30/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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Placement of a Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve Prosthesis in the Presence of Aortic Arch Angulation

02/23/2024

Hector Cubero-Gallego, MD, PhD^1,2,3; Helena Tizon-Marcos, MD, PhD^1,2,4; Rut Alvarez-Velasco, MD, PhD¹; Alicia Prieto, MD^1,2; Juan C. Betancourt, MD^1,2; Beatriz Vaquerizo, MD, PhD^1,2,3,4

Hector Cubero-Gallego, MD, PhD1,2,3; ...

An 83-year-old man with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis with severe ventricular dysfunction underwent valvuloplasty and percutaneous coronary intervention before being referred for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

An 83-year-old man with...

02/23/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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Ping-Pong Guide Catheter Technique for Facilitating Antegrade Crossing of a Chronic Total Occlusion

11/17/2023

Michalis Koutouzis , MD, PhD;

Theodoros Zografos , MD, PhD;

Konstantina Katsanou , MD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Ioannis Tsiafoutis , MD;

A 60-year-old man was referred for percutaneous coronary intervention of a proximal left circumflex chronic total occlusion with distal filling via epicardial collaterals from the left anterior descending artery. The 30-mm lesion had a...

A 60-year-old man was referred...

11/17/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

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Bladder Indentation Sign: A Stitch in Time Can Save Nine

11/13/2023

Sourabh Agstam , MD, DM, MBBS;

Vibhavasu Sharma , MD;

Souvik Sardar , MBBS, MD;

Ambuj Roy , MD, DM;

A 70-year-old woman with diabetes presented with recurrent episodes of rest angina the previous month. She had undergone coronary angiography, which was suggestive of triple vessel disease.

A 70-year-old woman with...

11/13/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Research

The Vascade Vascular Closure System Performance Guarantee Risk-Sharing Agreement: Low Prevalence of Closure-Related Complications

12/17/2020

Barry D. Bertolet , MD;

Justin Ballotta , MBA;

Roger R. Owens , MS;

Although the prevalence of radial catheterization is increasing, many cardiac procedures and most peripheral angiography and interventional procedures are performed via femoral vascular access.

Although the prevalence of...

12/17/2020

Vascular Disease Management

Relationship Between Platelet Reactivity and Periprocedural Myonecrosis in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

11/23/2019

Moo-Hyun Kim , MD, PhD;

Sun-Young Choi , PhD;

Kyung-Yae Hyun , PhD;

Michael S. Lee , MD, DPM, FACFAS, FACC, FSCAI;

The impact of platelet reactivity on periprocedural myonecrosis (PMN) in East Asian patients with stable ischemic heart disease or non-ST elevation ACS undergoing PCI is unclear. Achievement of optimal platelet reactivity may decrease the...

The impact of platelet...

11/23/2019

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Contemporary Use of Laser During Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Insights from the Laser Veterans Affairs (LAVA) Multicenter Registry

03/15/2018

Subhash Banerjee , MD, FSCAI;

Aris Karatasakis , MD;

Barbara Anna Danek , MD;

Aya J. Alame , BA;

Judit Karacsonyi , MD, PhD;

José Roberto Martínez-Parachini , MD;

Michele Roesle , RN, BSN, MD;

Houman Khalili , MD;

Bavana V. Rangan , BDS, MPH, MD;

Ehrin J. Armstrong , MD, MSc, FACC;

Imre Ungi , MD, PhD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Huu Tam D. Truong , MD;

Ryan Tsuda , MD;

Damianos G. Kokkinidis , MD;

We examined the baseline clinical and angiographic characteristics and procedural outcomes of 130 target lesions in 121 consecutive PCIs (n = 116 patients) in which excimer laser coronary atherectomy was performed at three United States...

We examined the baseline...

03/15/2018

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Early Clinical Experience With Right and Left Distal Transradial Access in the Anatomical Snuffbox in 52 Consecutive Patients

03/15/2018

Keisuke Satogami , MD;

Alberto Francesco Cereda , MD;

Angelina Vassileva , MD;

Paolo Angelo Canova , MD;

Orazio Valsecchi , MD;

Giulio Guagliumi , MD;