Abstract One of the most troublesome complications of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or angiography is retrograde dissection of the artery into the aortic root. We report a case involving the…
Abstract The use of drug-coated balloons (DEB) for preventing restenosis is new and has received increasing interest. We present a patient who was admitted with recurrent angina with repeat interventions…
Abstract Objectives This study aims to determine how excimer laser coronary atherectomy (ELCA) performs in the drug-eluting stent (DES) era. Background For more than 20 years, ELCA has been used…
Abstract Recent randomized trials comparing coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) versus drug eluting stents (DES) observed better survival, survival free of myocardial infarction (MI) and free from death, MI and…
Abstract Superficial femoral artery (SFA) is commonly diseased in patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease. Endovascular treatments have been more effectively used for SFA occlusions with new techniques and devices….
Abstract Background Differences in early arterial healing patterns after stent implantation between biodegradable and durable polymer based new generation drug-eluting stents are not well understood. The aim of this study…
Abstract Background Bifurcation lesions at the time of emergent PCI for STEMI are relatively common. However, there are little data regarding their significance. The objective of this study is to…
Abstract Aims We hypothesized that patients with a history of either alarming or nuisance bleeding events, compared to those with no history of bleeding, would have lower levels of on-treatment…
Abstract Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate plaque characteristics of culprit and non-culprit lesions in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients at the index procedure and 10 months…
It’s been over a decade since drug-eluting stents (DES) were introduced into the clinical practice of percutaneous coronary intervention for the treatment of coronary artery lesions. With significant reductions in…
