Abstract Challenges arise in the care of patients with drug-eluting stents (DES) undergoing noncardiac surgery. The risk of bleeding during surgery must be balanced with the risk of stent thrombosis…
Abstract Peripheral artery disease (PAD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) commonly occur together and are known to lead to poor long-term survival. Furthermore, it is not yet known whether percutaneous…
Abstract A patient with previous implantation of two stents in the left renal artery (because of refractory arterial hypertension) developed, 7 months after implantation, a renal infarction due to late…
Abstract Background Decreased ejection fraction (EF) has been found to be a strong predictor of mortality. However, this association has not been studied in patients undergoing ventriculography over a long…
1 Introduction Aortic atheroma is a common finding in patients with ischemic heart disease and is associated with traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis, such as increasing age, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and…
Abstract Background In patients under oral anticoagulant requiring percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent implantation, the optimal association between aspirin, clopidogrel and oral anticoagulant (OAC) remains cumberstome. Triple therapy and…
Abstract Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mechanism of luminal gain with a novel atheroablation system (Pathway PV) for the treatment of peripheral artery disease using…
Abstract Background Many studies have reported that low final thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) flow and/or myocardial blush grade (MBG) are independent predictors of mortality in patients with ST-elevation myocardial…
Abstract Background Although effective coverage of coronary diffuse in-stent restenosis (ISR) lesions has warranted the use of multiple drug-eluting stents, the vessel response to paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) overlap is not…
The US health care reform bill has passed, and it may significantly impact the interventional cardiology field, technology innovation, and day-to-day practice. Several aspects of the bill are related to…
