Background Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of mortality. So far, interventional management of atherosclerosis has been physical like angioplasty, atherectomy and stenting. Physical interventions rarely remove the…
Background The influence of drug-eluting stents (DES) on atherosclerotic lesion progression or regression is not well characterized. We used a balloon preinjury, familial hypercholesterolemic swine (FHS) model to study the…
Background A novel coronary imaging and navigation system (IC-PRO Guidance, Paieon Medical, Israel) was developed to enable the operator identification of balloon/stent location in real time based on fluoroscopic images….
Aim Appropriate stent expansion is an important predictor of the long-term procedural success. The low opacity of current stents is a major obstacle in imaging their silhouette. Postdeployment image enhancement…
Background The aim of our study was a Doppler assessment of coronary flow reserve (CFR) in the right coronary artery (RCA) in CAD patients with single-vessel RCA stenosis and patients…
Background Slow-flow/no-reflow phenomenon is mainly induced by distal embolization of thrombus and necrotic core during PCI of ACS and non-ACS patients and is associated with unfavorable long-term clinical outcomes. Various…
Background Restenosis after PCI and/or stent implantation still is one of the challenging problems in the field of interventional cardiology. Different concepts to prevent and to treat restenosis including drug-eluting…
The frequency and distribution of thin-cap fibroatheromas (TCFA) have important clinical implications. We evaluated the frequency and distribution of TCFA identified by virtual histology intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS) in acute coronary…
Objective The objective was to compare the number of yellow plaques in a coronary artery between patients with and without chronic kidney disease (CKD). Background Chronic kidney disease is an…
Background Systemic levels of myeloperoxidase (MPO) are a marker of inflammation and of plaque vulnerability in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). We assessed the hypothesis that elevations in MPO…
