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 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 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 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 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 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 Ivan P. Casserly Irving Franco In the rapidly changing, innovative world of interventional cardiology, the tendency exists to pay less attention to some…
The Role of Fractional Flow Reserve in the Catheterization Laboratory Nico H.J. Pijls William F. Fearon The inability of coronary angiography to consistently reflect the severity of coronary stenoses is…
An Approach to Coronary Imaging with IVUS Ilke Sipahi Khaled M. Ziada Samir Kapadia Steven E. Nissen Coronary angiography, which is the cornerstone imaging modality in the cardiac catheterization laboratory,…
The Role of Intravascular Ultrasound in the Catheterization Laboratory John McB. Hodgson Suzanne Sorof Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) allows the direct visualization of coronary anatomy during diagnostic and interventional catheterization (1,…
