Background Clinical decision making in patients with intermediate coronary stenosis is still debated. Deferring intervention based on intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance of minimal luminal cross-sectional area (MLA) ≥4 mm 2…
Background Treatment of bifurcation lesions is still a challenge. Different techniques have been published on how to approach bifurcations. Appropriate stent positioning just at the side branch ostium is difficult…
Background The Impella 2.5 is a percutaneously inserted ventricular assist device used during high-risk angioplasty and in cardiogenic shock. It is relatively contraindicated in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD)…
Background Robotic PCI has a potential to decrease radiation exposure and contrast fluid usage and increase technical precision. The CorPath 200 System (Corindus, Natick, MA, USA) is a vascular robotic…
Background Drug-coated balloons transfer only a small part of the drug to the tissue. Most of the drug is lost into the bloodstream probably during inflation. To overcome this problem,…
Background Short-term intraluminal application of paclitaxel via balloon catheters emerges as a new treatment option where stent implants are undesired (in-stent restenosis, bifurcations, SFA). It has been recently shown that…
Background Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is an invasive physiological index of the functional severity of coronary artery stenoses. Trial data have demonstrated that an FFR>0.80 predicts excellent clinical outcomes in…
Aims Transradial coronary intervention is usually performed via a 5- or 6-F sheath due to the small caliber of radial arteries. Various different angiographic techniques that require a guiding catheter…
Background Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is one of the last frontiers in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Clinical and procedural outcomes and success rates substantially differ between clinical studies. Our study…
Background Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a powerful predictor of prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease. The effect of PCI with coronary stent implantation on left ventricular (LV)…
