Future of Interventional Cardiology
Future of Interventional Cardiology David R. Holmes Jr. The pace of change of interventional cardiology continues to accelerate. This process is complex and multifaceted. The pace changes in response to…
Direct Thrombin Inhibitors in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Direct Thrombin Inhibitors in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Hitinder S. Gurm Michael A. Lincoff Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), by virtue of the introduction of foreign bodies (wires, catheters, stents, etc.) and…
Internal Mammary Artery Intervention
Internal Mammary Artery Intervention Malcolm R. Bell The remarkably high patency rate of the internal mammary artery (internal thoracic artery) when used as a bypass conduit was first demonstrated in…
Access Site Management—Review of Options
Access Site Management—Review of Options Peter Lochow Sigmund Silber After the first cardiac catheterization via the femoral artery (1,2), the femoral approach is now the most commonly used access for…
Device Loss during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Incidence, Complications, and Retrieval Methods
Device Loss during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Incidence, Complications, and Retrieval Methods Emmanouil S. Brilakis Kirk N. Garratt Fortunately, the frequency of stent—or other device—loss during cardiac catheterization procedures has significantly…
Cardiogenic Shock in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Cardiogenic Shock in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infarction Zaza Iakobishvili David Hasdai Cardiogenic shock is defined as a state of tissue hypoxia caused by reduced cardiac output in the…
Managing the Patient with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Managing the Patient with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction Gregory W. Barsness Along with the application of optimal medical and technological strategies to enhance prognosis, coronary anatomy and symptom status generally…
Complete versus Incomplete Revascularization
Complete versus Incomplete Revascularization Jeffrey C. Trost Daniel L. Dries Bernard J. Gersh Patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) have several therapeutic options to ameliorate the signs and symptoms…
Saphenous Vein Graft Disease
Saphenous Vein Graft Disease John S. Douglas Jr. Michael P. Savage The successful application of surgical coronary revascularization in approximately .5 million patients annually for over three decades has resulted…
Self-Expanding Stents in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
Self-Expanding Stents in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease Heidar Arjomand Bassam Roukoz Sheldon Goldberg Since the initial coronary balloon angioplasty (BA) in humans by Andreas Gruntzig in 1977, significant…
