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Carlos Cafri, MD

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Clinical Videos
02/03/2025
Video Supplement to "Mitral Transcatheter-Edge‐to‐Edge Repair in Failed Mitral Valve Repair" (Clinical Image).
Video Supplement to "Mitral Transcatheter-Edge‐to‐Edge Repair in Failed Mitral Valve Repair" (Clinical Image).
Video Supplement to "Mitral...
02/03/2025
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Clinical Images
02/03/2025
A 63-year-old man underwent mitral valve (MV) repair with a 28-mm Cosgrove-Edwards annuloplasty ring (Edwards Lifesciences) in 1999 due to severe primary mitral regurgitation. He did well until recently, when he was recurrently admitted with...
A 63-year-old man underwent mitral valve (MV) repair with a 28-mm Cosgrove-Edwards annuloplasty ring (Edwards Lifesciences) in 1999 due to severe primary mitral regurgitation. He did well until recently, when he was recurrently admitted with...
A 63-year-old man underwent...
02/03/2025
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Teaching Collection
08/01/2008
Coronary dissection during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) occurs frequently and is associated with variable evolution, including the development of acute closure with serious clinical consequences. Stent sealing of the false lumen...
Coronary dissection during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) occurs frequently and is associated with variable evolution, including the development of acute closure with serious clinical consequences. Stent sealing of the false lumen...
Coronary dissection during...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
04/26/2012
Abstract: Objectives. Angioplasty of a stenosis at the ostium of a diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery as an isolated lesion often poses a dilemma due to the risk involved in treating the lesion in comparison to the...
Abstract: Objectives. Angioplasty of a stenosis at the ostium of a diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery as an isolated lesion often poses a dilemma due to the risk involved in treating the lesion in comparison to the...
Abstract: Objectives....
04/26/2012
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
ABSTRACT: We investigated the efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in coronary thrombotic lesions according to the timing of the procedure. Eighty-two patients who underwent immediate PCI (IPCI) were compared to 24 patients...
ABSTRACT: We investigated the efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in coronary thrombotic lesions according to the timing of the procedure. Eighty-two patients who underwent immediate PCI (IPCI) were compared to 24 patients...
ABSTRACT: We investigated the...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
08/01/2008
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4–6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4–6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
06/19/2008
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4-6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4-6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4-6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization is frequently applied in patients with coronary artery disease for diagnostic and therapeutic implications. Using the femoral approach, post-procedure bed rest of 4-6 hours is recommended to prevent groin...
ABSTRACT: Heart catheterization...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
08/01/2008
ABSTRACT: We present the first case reported of fracture of a coronary guidewire during thrombectomy of a massive thrombus in a recently occluded coronary bypass graft with the recently developed atherectomy catheter X-Sizer. The thrombus was...
ABSTRACT: We present the first case reported of fracture of a coronary guidewire during thrombectomy of a massive thrombus in a recently occluded coronary bypass graft with the recently developed atherectomy catheter X-Sizer. The thrombus was...
ABSTRACT: We present the first...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Case Report
08/01/2008
Acute vessel closure is a serious event, complicating 0.5–9.3% of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), and is associated with major clinical adverse events including emergency coronary bypass surgery, acute myocardial infarction and...
Acute vessel closure is a serious event, complicating 0.5–9.3% of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), and is associated with major clinical adverse events including emergency coronary bypass surgery, acute myocardial infarction and...
Acute vessel closure is a...
08/01/2008
Journal of Invasive Cardiology