INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Medical simulation comprises the artificial representation of a real-world medical environment with sufficient realism to facilitate learning through immersion, reflection, feedback, and practice without the risks…
INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY AND CLINICAL TRIALS Print Section Listen On September 16, 1977, Andreas Gruentzig performed the first coronary angioplasty on a 38-year-old businessman with unstable angina and a discrete proximal…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Remarkable advances are regularly made in the science, clinical practice, and procedural applications of interventional cardiology, challenging the interventional cardiologist to systematically integrate new knowledge into…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In my 10 years as editor-in-chief of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, we have selected about 1500 original research articles for publication. In recent years, the acceptance rate…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is an intrinsic part of management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD) whether or not revascularization is performed. GDMT for…
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Print Section Listen As a result of significant technologic improvements over the past 30 years, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become an increasingly safe and effective procedure. Along…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In the stent era, coronary artery perforation (CAP) is the most serious complication and a leading cause of death from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Although preventable…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The field of interventional cardiology has evolved since the introduction of balloon angioplasty by Andreas Gruntzig,1 with current high procedural success rates and low attendant periprocedural…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Advances in the catheterizations techniques, stent designs, and pharmacotherapeutics have reduced adverse ischemic event rates such as cardiovascular death, ST (stent thrombosis), recurrent myocardial infarctions, and…
CAROTID ARTERY INTERVENTION Print Section Listen The era of percutaneous or endovascular revascularization techniques was ushered in by Dotter in 1964, and then advanced by Gruentzig with the invention of…
