Peripheral Vascular Stenting Albert W. Chan Stephen R. Ramee Atherosclerosis is a systemic inflammatory disease that involves both the cardiac and the peripheral arterial circulations. The multisystem manifestation of atherosclerosis…
Atherectomy and Aspiration Devices Abhiram Prasad Significant advances over recent years in the equipment and techniques used in coronary interventions have greatly improved the safety and efficacy of percutaneous revascularization….
Plaque Sealing Bernhard Meier For quite a while now, we have begun to look at the coronary artery plaque (or any vascular plaque for that matter) as a differentiated entity….
Carotid Artery Stenting Jacqueline Saw Jay S. Yadav Carotid artery stenting (CAS) has recently been accepted as an alternative revascularization strategy to carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for the treatment of high-risk…
Renal Artery Stent Placement Christopher J. White Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) is more common than was previously thought. In a screening study of 834 free-living Medicare patients, RAS of…
Coated Stents—Approaches to a Complex Subject A OVERVIE Stephen G. Ellis Due to their remarkable reduction of the need for subsequent revascularization, and yet despite the fact that drug-eluting stents…
Transradial Approach Joseph G. Motwani The radial artery was first used as an access route for central vascular imaging as far back as 1948 (1). The first transradial coronary arteriogram…
Catheter-Based Radiation Ron Waksman Vascular brachytherapy (VBT), using beta and gamma emitters, revolutionized the treatment of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), particularly in-stent restenosis (ISR). Preclinical trials were encouraging and facilitated…
Distal Protection—Filter Devices Jacqueline Saw Jay S. Yadav Deepak L. Bhatt Technological advances and evolution in the twentieth century have enabled revolutionary percutaneous catheter-based treatments of cardiovascular atherothromboembolic diseases. Since…
Cutting Balloons Kenneth Chin The cutting balloon is a device having three or four sharp metal microtome blades (0.25 mm high) mounted longitudinally on the surface of a non-compliant balloon…
