Volume 14 - Issue 2 - February, 2002
Feature
08/01/2008
A. Michael Lincoff, MD
Acute coronary syndromes, which include unstable angina (UA), non-Q wave myocardial infarction (NQWMI) and ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (AMI), represent the most common diagnoses for admission of patients with...
Acute coronary syndromes, which include unstable angina (UA), non-Q wave myocardial infarction (NQWMI) and ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (AMI), represent the most common diagnoses for admission of patients with...
Acute coronary syndromes, which...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Alan J. Simons, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FACP; Ronald P. Caputo, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Paolo Esente, MD; Carlton Levy; Alessandro Giambartolemei, MD; Mark Reger, MD; Gary Walford, MD
Case Description. A 79-year-old female with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and peripheral vascular disease underwent successful direct stenting of her left anterior descending coronary artery on March 15, 2000 in the setting of...
Case Description. A 79-year-old female with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and peripheral vascular disease underwent successful direct stenting of her left anterior descending coronary artery on March 15, 2000 in the setting of...
Case Description. A 79-year-old...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Feature
08/01/2008
Michael A. Lauer, MD; Tim A. Fischell, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Scott D. Haller, MS; Christoph Hehrlein, MD; Jennifer J. DeVries; Amina Arab, MD; Ann Kloostra, RN; Malcom T. Foster, MD
Stent implantation has made its way into widespread clinical use since improvements in stent design and stent delivery systems facilitated deployment even in coronary lesions that are difficult to access. A variety of different stent designs...
Stent implantation has made its way into widespread clinical use since improvements in stent design and stent delivery systems facilitated deployment even in coronary lesions that are difficult to access. A variety of different stent designs...
Stent implantation has made its...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
Leonard Schwartz, MD and Amr Morsi, MD
Leonard Schwartz, MD and Amr Morsi, M...
Treatment of isolated ostial lesions of sidebranches continues to represent a challenge for the interventional cardiologist. In some ways similar to aorto-ostial lesions, these lesions are highly elastic and subject to recoil and so are...
Treatment of isolated ostial lesions of sidebranches continues to represent a challenge for the interventional cardiologist. In some ways similar to aorto-ostial lesions, these lesions are highly elastic and subject to recoil and so are...
Treatment of isolated ostial...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
News
Teaching Collection
08/01/2008
Victor S. Behar, MD; J. Kevin Harrison, MD; David E. Kandzari, MD
An anomalous origin of the left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is an uncommon congenital coronary abnormality, occurring in fewer than 0.01% of patients undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterization.1,2 Also termed...
An anomalous origin of the left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is an uncommon congenital coronary abnormality, occurring in fewer than 0.01% of patients undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterization.1,2 Also termed...
An anomalous origin of the left...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Feature
Case Report
08/01/2008
Stephen T. Thew, MD; Lloyd W. Klein, MD
Coronary guidewire fracture and subsequent retrieval of the retained pieces is an uncommon, but known complication of percutaneous coronary angioplasty. To our knowledge, however, this is the first report of a coronary guidewire unraveling...
Coronary guidewire fracture and subsequent retrieval of the retained pieces is an uncommon, but known complication of percutaneous coronary angioplasty. To our knowledge, however, this is the first report of a coronary guidewire unraveling...
Coronary guidewire fracture and...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Column
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, case reports, articles from the Journal special section “Clinical Decision Making”, a teaching collection, and the new special section “Acute...
Dear Readers,
This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology includes original research articles, case reports, articles from the Journal special section “Clinical Decision Making”, a teaching collection, and the new special section “Acute...
Dear Readers,
This issue of the...
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Journal of Invasive Cardiology
