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Volume 23 - Issue 6 - June 2011

Original Contribution
05/26/2011
Ehtisham Mahmud, MD; Manjusha Ilapakurti, MBBS, MPH; Patrick Hu, MD, PhD; Nayab Zafar, MD; Vachaspathi Palakodeti, MD; Sotirios Tsimikas, MD; Anand Prasad, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI
ABSTRACT: Background. Benefit of percutaneous revascularization for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) may be attenuated by distal embolization of atheroemboli. The purpose of this study was to characterize RAS plaque composition...
ABSTRACT: Background. Benefit of percutaneous revascularization for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) may be attenuated by distal embolization of atheroemboli. The purpose of this study was to characterize RAS plaque composition...
ABSTRACT: Background. Benefit of...
05/26/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
05/31/2011
Manivannan Srinivasan, MBBS, MRCP; Abhiram Prasad, MD, FRCP
ABSTRACT: Myocardial bridging (MB) is a common anatomical varient in which a segment of coronary artery takes an intramural path. Occasionally, it can result in symptomatic ischemia. We present four cases in which MB was treated with...
ABSTRACT: Myocardial bridging (MB) is a common anatomical varient in which a segment of coronary artery takes an intramural path. Occasionally, it can result in symptomatic ischemia. We present four cases in which MB was treated with...
ABSTRACT: Myocardial bridging...
05/31/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
05/26/2011
John T. Coppola, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Ravikiran Korabathina, MD; John A. Ambrose, MD; John Liuzzo, MD, PhD; Sajal Das, MD; Mary Devoe, RN; Saurabh Agarwal, MD; Srmiti Deshmukh, MD
ABSTRACT: Background. Coronary artery disease (CAD) patients experience chest pain (CP) from cardiac and non-cardiac etiologies. Objective. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment of CAD patients with atypical CP would result in less CP, as...
ABSTRACT: Background. Coronary artery disease (CAD) patients experience chest pain (CP) from cardiac and non-cardiac etiologies. Objective. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment of CAD patients with atypical CP would result in less CP, as...
ABSTRACT: Background. Coronary...
05/26/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
05/31/2011
B. Sivaramakrishna, MS; Vikas Rastogi, MD; Davinder S. Chadha, MD, DM
ABSTRACT: An 18-year-old male developed post-traumatic priapism subsequent to a fall causing blunt perineal trauma. Color Doppler ultrasound showed a high-flow arterio-venous fistula with feeders from branches of the left internal iliac...
ABSTRACT: An 18-year-old male developed post-traumatic priapism subsequent to a fall causing blunt perineal trauma. Color Doppler ultrasound showed a high-flow arterio-venous fistula with feeders from branches of the left internal iliac...
ABSTRACT: An 18-year-old male...
05/31/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Commentary
05/26/2011
Habib Samady, MD; Gautam Kumar, MD, FSCAI
Following the first successful clinical aorto-coronary saphenous vein graft (SVG) implantation by DeBakey and Garrett in 1964,1 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) rapidly became the most frequent surgical procedure in the United States in...
Following the first successful clinical aorto-coronary saphenous vein graft (SVG) implantation by DeBakey and Garrett in 1964,1 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) rapidly became the most frequent surgical procedure in the United States in...
Following the first successful...
05/26/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
05/31/2011
Sanjay C. Shah, MD, DM; Chirayu Vyas, MD, DM; Tejas M. Patel, MD, DM
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) using Inoue technique through a right femoral vein approach (RFVA) is well established. Left femoral vein approach (LFVA) is traditionally contraindicated because of certain...
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) using Inoue technique through a right femoral vein approach (RFVA) is well established. Left femoral vein approach (LFVA) is traditionally contraindicated because of certain...
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous...
05/31/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Original Contribution
05/26/2011
Tesfaldet T. Michael, MD, MPH; Donald Haagen, RCIS, MD; Tayo Addo, MD; Aristotelis C. Papayannis, MD; Abdul-Rahman Abdel-Karim, MD; Bilal Saeed, MD; Panagiotis Karyofillis, MD; Biswajit Kar, MD; Peter B. Berger, MD; Christopher Lichtenwalter, MD; Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI; Owen Obel, MD; Subhash Banerjee, MD, FSCAI; Joseph K. Bissett, MD; Rajesh Sachdeva, MD; Vassilios V. Voudris, MD, PhD; Michele Roesle, RN, BSN, MD; James Rossen, MD; Bavana V. Rangan, BDS, MPH, MD; Panayotis Fasseas, MD; James A. de Lemos, MD
ABSTRACT: The Stenting of Saphenous Vein Grafts (SOS) trial demonstrated a reduction in clinical and angiographic adverse events with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) compared to bare-metal stents (BMS) in saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions,...
ABSTRACT: The Stenting of Saphenous Vein Grafts (SOS) trial demonstrated a reduction in clinical and angiographic adverse events with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) compared to bare-metal stents (BMS) in saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions,...
ABSTRACT: The Stenting of...
05/26/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
05/31/2011
Amr M. Mohsen, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Abdelkader Almanfi, MD; Mohammad Otahbachi, MD
ABSTRACT: Anterior ST-segment elevation is the hallmark electrocardiographic finding of acute anterior left ventricular infarction that is caused by occlusion in one of the branches of the left coronary artery. We report a case of marked...
ABSTRACT: Anterior ST-segment elevation is the hallmark electrocardiographic finding of acute anterior left ventricular infarction that is caused by occlusion in one of the branches of the left coronary artery. We report a case of marked...
ABSTRACT: Anterior ST-segment...
05/31/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
05/27/2011
Alejandro R. Peirone, MD; Alejandro Contreras, MD; Marcelo Cabrera, MD
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous atrial septal defect closure has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective procedure. Many different devices have been utilized during the last decade with a low complication rate. We report a patient who presented...
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous atrial septal defect closure has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective procedure. Many different devices have been utilized during the last decade with a low complication rate. We report a patient who presented...
ABSTRACT: Percutaneous atrial...
05/27/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
05/27/2011
Abdallah F. Omeish, MD; Issa M. Ghanma, MD; Raid I. Alamlih, RN
ABSTRACT: We report on a 68-year-old male patient (smoker, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetic for 25 years) who was admitted with acute pulmonary edema 5 months after undergoing  coronary artery bypass grafting (left internal...
ABSTRACT: We report on a 68-year-old male patient (smoker, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetic for 25 years) who was admitted with acute pulmonary edema 5 months after undergoing  coronary artery bypass grafting (left internal...
ABSTRACT: We report on a...
05/27/2011
Journal of Invasive Cardiology