INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In my 10 years as editor-in-chief of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, we have selected about 1500 original research articles for publication. In recent years, the acceptance rate…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is an intrinsic part of management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD) whether or not revascularization is performed. GDMT for…
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Print Section Listen As a result of significant technologic improvements over the past 30 years, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become an increasingly safe and effective procedure. Along…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In the stent era, coronary artery perforation (CAP) is the most serious complication and a leading cause of death from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Although preventable…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The field of interventional cardiology has evolved since the introduction of balloon angioplasty by Andreas Gruntzig,1 with current high procedural success rates and low attendant periprocedural…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Advances in the catheterizations techniques, stent designs, and pharmacotherapeutics have reduced adverse ischemic event rates such as cardiovascular death, ST (stent thrombosis), recurrent myocardial infarctions, and…
CAROTID ARTERY INTERVENTION Print Section Listen The era of percutaneous or endovascular revascularization techniques was ushered in by Dotter in 1964, and then advanced by Gruentzig with the invention of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) accounts for over 15,000 deaths per year in the United States and is the 10th leading cause of death in…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Coronary artery fistula is defined as any abnormal luminal connection between 1 or both coronary arteries and the cardiac chambers or great vessels.1 Coronary artery fistulae…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Since the time of the first edition of this book by Yeung and King in 2006,1 the practice of peripheral vascular medicine has evolved into a…
