Abstract Background Drug-eluting stents with biodegradable polymer might be particularly useful in diabetic patients who are at increased risk for target lesion/target vessel revascularization. We therefore aimed at assessing the…
Abstract Objectives To evaluate the success rates and outcome of the hybrid algorithm for chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by a single operator in two different clinical…
Abstract Background The assessment of patients presenting with angina using invasive angiography alone is imperfect. By contrast, fractional flow reserve (FFR) allows for assessment of lesion-specific ischemia, which is predictive…
Abstract Background Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) may be defined as Acute Renal Failure (ARF) that occurs within 24–72 h of exposure to intra-venous or intra-arterial iodinated contrast media that cannot…
… you’d think that by now I’d know ‘Cause here we go go go go again Cardiac catheterization associated contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is an enigma that has troubled interventional cardiologists,…
