Volume 19 - Issue 3 - March, 2007
Column
Editorial Message
08/01/2008
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, FACA
Editor-in-Chief
Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, FACA
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Dear Readers,This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology coincides with the 56th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology and includes original research articles, commentaries, letters to the editor, articles from...
Dear Readers,This issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology coincides with the 56th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology and includes original research articles, commentaries, letters to the editor, articles from...
Dear Readers,This issue of the...
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Department
Letters to the Editor
08/01/2008
Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD, Eleftherios Tsiamis, MD, Christodoulos Stefanadis, MD
Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD, Eleftheri...
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article recently published in the Journal by Worthley et al regarding the use of the Radi PressureWire® high-sensitivity thermistor (Radi Medical Systems, Inc., Uppsala, Sweden) for the detection...
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article recently published in the Journal by Worthley et al regarding the use of the Radi PressureWire® high-sensitivity thermistor (Radi Medical Systems, Inc., Uppsala, Sweden) for the detection...
Dear Editor, We read with great...
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Letters to the Editor
08/01/2008
*Stephen G. Worthley, MBBS, PhD, *Matthew I. Worthley, MBBS, PhD, §Ian T. Meredith, MBBS, PhD
*Stephen G. Worthley, MBBS, PhD, *Mat...
We thank (the authors of the letter) for their comments about our study in the Journal,1 and it seems they essentially agree with our conclusions. However, they raise some specific points to add weight to the argument that the main reason we...
We thank (the authors of the letter) for their comments about our study in the Journal,1 and it seems they essentially agree with our conclusions. However, they raise some specific points to add weight to the argument that the main reason we...
We thank (the authors of the...
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Feature
Case Report
08/01/2008
The recently FDA-approved Tornus® penetration catheter (Asahi Intecc, Aichi, Japan) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of severe coronary artery lesions and chronic total occlusions when they are first crossed by coronary...
The recently FDA-approved Tornus® penetration catheter (Asahi Intecc, Aichi, Japan) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of severe coronary artery lesions and chronic total occlusions when they are first crossed by coronary...
The recently FDA-approved...
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Case Report
08/01/2008
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC
Farrukh Hussain, MD, FRCPC
Case Report. A 75-year-old male presented to our catheterization laboratory with exertional shortness of breath (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class 2–3) and a positive dipyridamole nuclear scan with ischemia in the infero-lateral territory...
Case Report. A 75-year-old male presented to our catheterization laboratory with exertional shortness of breath (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class 2–3) and a positive dipyridamole nuclear scan with ischemia in the infero-lateral territory...
Case Report. A 75-year-old male...
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Case Report
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Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male with a history of bipolar illness had sustained a large myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by Dressler’s syndrome at an outside hospital. Based upon cardiac catheterization findings, surgical intervention...
Case Report A 65-year old male...
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Case Report
08/01/2008
*Mihai Iacob, MD, *Florina Pinte, MD, §Ion Tintoiu, MD
*Mihai Iacob, MD, *Florina Pinte, MD,...
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are occasionally reported among patients undergoing coronary angiography, with an incidence varying from 0.3% to approximate 5%.1,2 More than half of CAAs are due to coronary atherosclerosis, but occasionally...
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are occasionally reported among patients undergoing coronary angiography, with an incidence varying from 0.3% to approximate 5%.1,2 More than half of CAAs are due to coronary atherosclerosis, but occasionally...
Coronary artery aneurysms...
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Original Contribution
08/01/2008
Kul Aggarwal, MD, MRCP (UK) and *Vishal Gupta, MD, MPH
Kul Aggarwal, MD, MRCP (UK) and *Vish...
The introduction of coronary stenting marked a major milestone in percutaneous coronary interventions. Acute or threatened closure of the artery was once the most serious complication of conventional coronary balloon angioplasty. It was...
The introduction of coronary stenting marked a major milestone in percutaneous coronary interventions. Acute or threatened closure of the artery was once the most serious complication of conventional coronary balloon angioplasty. It was...
The introduction of coronary...
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Original Contribution
08/01/2008
*Etsuo Tsuchikane, MD, PhD, §Takeshi Suzuki, MD, PhD, *Osamu Katoh, MD, *Takahiko Suzuki, MD
*Etsuo Tsuchikane, MD, PhD, §Takeshi...
The advent of drug-eluting stents (DES) has brought about a revolutionary change in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Randomized clinical trials of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) have clearly demonstrated the agent’s efficacy in...
The advent of drug-eluting stents (DES) has brought about a revolutionary change in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Randomized clinical trials of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) have clearly demonstrated the agent’s efficacy in...
The advent of drug-eluting...
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Original Contribution
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Albert P. Shepherd, PhD, Beth M. Terpolilli, BA, *John M. Steinke, PhD
Albert P. Shepherd, PhD, Beth M. Ter...
The classic oxygen-based Fick Principle has long been considered the gold standard for measuring cardiac output, but its rigorous implementation is being used less and less frequently during cardiac catheterization and in intensive care...
The classic oxygen-based Fick Principle has long been considered the gold standard for measuring cardiac output, but its rigorous implementation is being used less and less frequently during cardiac catheterization and in intensive care...
The classic oxygen-based Fick...
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