Abstract Introduction The presence of symptomatic or asymptomatic intravascular/intracardiac foreign body (FB) is underreported in the literature, but it is more commonly encountered in clinical practice. Nowadays, losing a coronary…
Abstract Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a common valvular pathology with significant morbidity and mortality implications. Mechanical treatment of this condition is more effective than medical treatment and surgical correction has…
Abstract Coronary sinus thrombosis is an extremely rare clinical syndrome with a high fatality rate. It is associated with procedures in the right heart, including insertion of pacemaker wires, Swan-Ganz…
With great interest, I have read the article “Golden Jubilee of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Is Alcohol Septal Ablation the Gold Standard?” by Parakh and Bhargava . Fourteen years after the first…
Abstract Objective Our objective was to determine whether autologous endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) delivered into the pericardial space will migrate to and incorporate into ischemic myocardium in a porcine model….
Abstract Objective To examine the potential yield of three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of left main coronary lesions. Methods A novel, previously validated, system for 3D reconstruction of the coronary vessels was…
Abstract Purpose To evaluate our experience of limb salvage with bare nitinol stent enabled recanalization of long length occlusions of superficial femoral artery (SFA) and adjacent proximal popliteal artery (PPA)…
Abstract Objective Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are used in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, but evidence is mixed regarding the influence of medications of this class on target vessel revascularization. The…
Abstract Background Management of acute limb ischemia (ALI) is largely based on the etiology of arterial occlusion (embolic vs. thrombotic). To our knowledge, the ability of duplex scanning to differentiate…
Abstract Background Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) may be limited by thrombus embolization. Export aspiration catheter (EAC) is a thrombectomy device which may enhance angiographic…
