Coated Stents—Approaches to a Complex Subject
Coated Stents—Approaches to a Complex Subject A OVERVIE Stephen G. Ellis Due to their remarkable reduction of the need for subsequent revascularization, and yet despite the fact that drug-eluting stents…
Transradial Approach
Transradial Approach Joseph G. Motwani The radial artery was first used as an access route for central vascular imaging as far back as 1948 (1). The first transradial coronary arteriogram…
Catheter-Based Radiation
Catheter-Based Radiation Ron Waksman Vascular brachytherapy (VBT), using beta and gamma emitters, revolutionized the treatment of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), particularly in-stent restenosis (ISR). Preclinical trials were encouraging and facilitated…
Distal Protection—Filter Devices
Distal Protection—Filter Devices Jacqueline Saw Jay S. Yadav Deepak L. Bhatt Technological advances and evolution in the twentieth century have enabled revolutionary percutaneous catheter-based treatments of cardiovascular atherothromboembolic diseases. Since…
Cutting Balloons
Cutting Balloons Kenneth Chin The cutting balloon is a device having three or four sharp metal microtome blades (0.25 mm high) mounted longitudinally on the surface of a non-compliant balloon…
Distal Protection—Balloon Occluding Devices
Distal Protection—Balloon Occluding Devices Manish S. Chauhan Donald E. Cutlip An important long-term limitation of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is the atheromatous degeneration of vein grafts that culminates…
Lesions in Small Vessels
Lesions in Small Vessels Heidar Arjomand Andrey Espinoza Sheldon Goldberg Percutaneous coronary revascularization, mostly by means of stenting, has become the most common major medical intervention (1). One million percutaneous…
Debulking Approaches Prior to Stenting in Interventional Cardiology
Debulking Approaches Prior to Stenting in Interventional Cardiology Samin K. Sharma Ramanjit S. Bagga Annapoorna S. Kini Intracoronary stenting (ICS) has become the primary interventional strategy for patients undergoing percutaneous…
Direct Stenting Versus Predilatation and Stenting
Direct Stenting Versus Predilatation and Stenting David R. Holmes Jr. Stenting strategies have evolved substantially during the time that stents have become the dominant percutaneous revascularization approach for the treatment…
Guides and Wires in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Guides and Wires in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Ivan P. Casserly Irving Franco In the rapidly changing, innovative world of interventional cardiology, the tendency exists to pay less attention to some…
