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CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH A NEW HYBRID CORONARY WIRE
On Demand Web ArchiveNon-Accredited
Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, and technologists.
This activity is supported by an educational grant from Terumo Medical Corporation.

Editorial Update

Editor's Update

January 2009 Vol. 21, No. 1

Rapid Communication

Multivessel Coronary Artery Thrombosis
Yumiko Kanei, MD, Rajesh Janardhan, MD, John T. Fox, MD, Ramesh M. Gowda, MD

Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York.

Original Contributions

Impact of Body Mass Index on Long-term All Cause Mortality After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in African Americans.
Shyam Poludasu, MD, Erdal Cavusoglu, MD, Waqas Khan, MD, Jonathan D. Marmur, MD

SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York

Level of Complement Activity Predicts Cardiac Dysfunction after Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
1Sune Haahr-Pedersen, 2Mette Bjerre, 2Allan Flyvbjerg, 1Rasmus Mogelvang, 1Helena Dominquez, 2Troels Krarup Hansen, 1Søren Galatius, 1Jan Bech, 1Jan Kyst Madsen1, 1Peter Søgaard, 1,3Jan Skov Jensen

1Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Denmark, and 2The Medical Research Laboratories, Clinical Institute and Medical Department M (Diabetes and Endocrinology), Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, 3Clinical Institute of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Analysis of Particulate Debris after Superficial Femoral Artery Atherectomy
Khalil A. Kaid MD, Rajeev Gopinathapillai, MD, Fang Qian MD, Madhu Salvaji DO, Najam Wasty MD, Marc Cohen MD

From the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey

Hyperperfusion Syndrome Following Carotid Artery Stenting: The Largest Single-Operator Series to Date
1Hutton P. Brantley, DO, 1Jennifer L. Kiessling, MD, 2Hugh B. Milteer Jr., 3Farrell O. Mendelsohn, MD

1Baptist Health System, Inc, 2The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, and 3Cardiology P.C., Birmingham, Alabama

The Role of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Predicting Hospital Mortality for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in the Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program
a,bCharles Maynard, PhD, cSunil V Rao, MD, dMary Gregg, MD, MHA, aRichard C. Phillips, MD MPH, dMark Reisman, MD, eEben Tucker, MD, eJ. Richard Goss, MD MPH

From aDepartment of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, bDepartment of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, cDuke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, dSwedish Health Services Seattle, WA, eDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Review

Novel Applications of Non-Cardiac Vascular Devices for the Treatment of Coronary Artery Pathology
Srinivas Iyengar MD, *Philip M. Meyers MD, Neil K. Goyal MD, MPH, Jeffrey W. Moses MD, William A. Gray, MD, FACC, FSCAI
From the Division of Cardiology and the *Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.

Clinical Images

Intravascular Ultrasound Evaluation of a Stenotic Modified Blalock-Taussig

Angel Sanchez-Recalde, MD; Santiago Jiménez-Valero, MD; Raul Moreno, MD

Interventional Cardiology Unit. La Paz University Hospital. Madrid, Spain.

FOCUS on ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECTS. . .

Guest Editor: P. Syamasundar Rao, MD

Transcatheter Closure of Secundum Atrial Septal Defect in the Elderly
Ahmad Al-Hindi, MD, Qi-Ling Cao, MD & Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FSCAI

Rush Center for Congenital & Structural Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology, Chicago, Illinois

When and How to Close Atrial Septal Defects in Adults
P.S. Rao, MD

UT-Houston Medical School, Pediatric Cardiology, Houston, Texas

An Unusual Thrombotic Complication during Percutaneous Closure of Atrial Septal Defect
S. Bijulal, MD, DM, S. Sivasankaran, MD, DM, V.K. Ajitkumar, MD, DM

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Online Articles

Severe Myocardial Ischemia due to a Large Vascular Malformation of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery with Fistulous Connection from the Right Coronary Artery
Uzoma N. Ibebuogu MD, Deepak Kapoor MD, Vincent J.B. Robinson MD

Section of Cardiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia

Acute Myocardial Infarction in Two Young Women Without Significant Risk Factors - Case Report and Brief Review
1Lookman Lawal, M.D, 2Richard Lange, MD, 2Steven Schulman, MD

1 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

2 Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

Endovascular Treatment of Traumatic Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Dissection
1Paolo Pagnotta, MD, 2Cesare Massa Saluzzo, MD, 1Patrizia Presbitero, MD

1Laboratory of Interventional Cardiology, IRCCS Humanitas, Milan, and 2Neuroradiology Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.

Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis following Surgical Valve Replacement: Changing Valvular into Ischemic Heart Disease
Clarissa Cola, MD, Victoria Martín Yuste, MD, Manel Sabaté, MD, PhD, FESC

Interventional Cardiology Unit, Department of Cardiology, Sant Pau University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction Secondary to a Myocardial Muscular Bridge: A Case Report
1Emre Gurel MD, 1Nihal Ozdemir MD, 2Cihan Cevik MD, 1Cihangir Kaymaz MD

1Kartal Kosuyolu Heart and Research Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey, and 2Texas Tech University Health Sciences, Lubbock, Texas

Post Cardiac Injury Syndrome after Uncomplicated Coronary Angioplasty
Nisar H. Shah, MBBS; MRCPI; FCPS and Anthony J Scriven, BSc; MD; FRCP

Department of Cardiology, Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester, United Kingdom


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