Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Delivery for Promoting Collaterals in Patients with Coronary and Peripheral Artery Disease Jai Pal Singh For patients with severe ischemic coronary artery disease (CAD) and peripheral arterial disease…
Percutaneous Approaches to Valvular Disease Alec Vahanian Eric Brochet David Messika-Zeitoun Bernard Iung Until the early 1980s surgery was the only possible treatment for severe valvular lesions, then a new…
Percutaneous Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale Ivan P. Casserly Murat E. Tuzcu Persistent patency of the foramen ovale has been implicated in an increasing number of pathologic states. Most…
Percutaneous Bypass and Future Applications Alan C. Yeung Joshua Makower Theodore C. Lamson Since Andreas Gruntzig’s pioneering work gave birth to the field of interventional cardiology, great strides have been…
Myogenesis Marc S. Penn Amir Durrani Ischemic heart disease remains the leading cause of congestive heart failure (CHF). The prevalence of CHF has increased dramatically over the preceding decade, with…
Peripheral Vascular Stenting Albert W. Chan Stephen R. Ramee Atherosclerosis is a systemic inflammatory disease that involves both the cardiac and the peripheral arterial circulations. The multisystem manifestation of atherosclerosis…
Atherectomy and Aspiration Devices Abhiram Prasad Significant advances over recent years in the equipment and techniques used in coronary interventions have greatly improved the safety and efficacy of percutaneous revascularization….
Plaque Sealing Bernhard Meier For quite a while now, we have begun to look at the coronary artery plaque (or any vascular plaque for that matter) as a differentiated entity….
Carotid Artery Stenting Jacqueline Saw Jay S. Yadav Carotid artery stenting (CAS) has recently been accepted as an alternative revascularization strategy to carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for the treatment of high-risk…
Renal Artery Stent Placement Christopher J. White Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) is more common than was previously thought. In a screening study of 834 free-living Medicare patients, RAS of…
