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…
The Chronic Total Occlusion
The Chronic Total Occlusion Anthony Fung Jaap N. Hamburger Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has established itself as an important alternative to coronary artery bypass surgery in the treatment of…
In-Stent Restenosis
In-Stent Restenosis Wells J. Askew John P. Sweeney The advent of coronary stents over a decade ago transformed the practice of interventional cardiology by increasing procedural success (1), decreasing procedural…
The Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction
The Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction Felix Zijlstra The timely restoration of antegrade coronary blood flow in the infarct-related artery of a patient with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) results in…
