Coronary Artery Perforation Eugenia Nikolsky Zoran Lasic Roxana Mehran The remarkable development of novel enhanced technologies for percutaneous coronary revascularization over the last two decades has led to a considerable…
Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Therapy during Acute Coronary Syndromes and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention John J. Young Dean J. Kereiakes The past decade has seen major advances in adjunctive pharmacotherapy for acute coronary…
Unfractionated Heparin Heidar Arjomand Marc Cohen Plaque rupture and arterial injury at the site of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) expose the thrombogenic subintimal layers to platelets, activates the coagulation system,…
Assessing Platelet Function in the Cath Lab Jay S. Varanasi Steven R. Steinhubl Antiplatelet agents are a critical component of the adjunctive therapies utilized in patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary…
Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Deepak P. Vivekananthan Deepak L. Bhatt Eric J. Topol Platelet activation and aggregation play an important role in promoting ischemic complications during and…
Future of Interventional Cardiology David R. Holmes Jr. The pace of change of interventional cardiology continues to accelerate. This process is complex and multifaceted. The pace changes in response to…
Direct Thrombin Inhibitors in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Hitinder S. Gurm Michael A. Lincoff Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), by virtue of the introduction of foreign bodies (wires, catheters, stents, etc.) and…
Internal Mammary Artery Intervention Malcolm R. Bell The remarkably high patency rate of the internal mammary artery (internal thoracic artery) when used as a bypass conduit was first demonstrated in…
Access Site Management—Review of Options Peter Lochow Sigmund Silber After the first cardiac catheterization via the femoral artery (1,2), the femoral approach is now the most commonly used access for…
Device Loss during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Incidence, Complications, and Retrieval Methods Emmanouil S. Brilakis Kirk N. Garratt Fortunately, the frequency of stent—or other device—loss during cardiac catheterization procedures has significantly…
