August 2007
|Volume 19 Issue 8
In-stent restenosis has long remained the major limitation of coronary stenting. Recent randomized trials have shown that the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) markedly reduce the risk of in-stent restenosis following treatment of de novo lesions,1–4…
The TandemHeart™ device (Cardiac Assist, Inc., Pittsburg, Pennsylvania), a percutaneous nonpulsatile centrifugal left ventricular (LV) assist device, is a recent introduction to the armamentarium of periprocedural hemodynamic stability tools. It has…
In the performance of increasingly complex percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), there remains an ever-present risk of device fracture or dislodgement. Such occurrences are fortunately infrequent,1 however, they may pose an unfamiliar and diffi…
Successful Stenting of Bilateral Multiple Renal Arteries in a
Patient with Renovascular Hypertension
Patient with Renovascular Hypertension
Renal artery stenosis (RAS) can result in renovascular hypertension and nephrosclerosis, and accounts for approximately 1 to 3% of all causes of hypertension. The current treatment of choice for atherosclerotic renal artery disease in selected patien…
According to the newly-updated guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease, surgical aortic valve replacement is still the gold standard for treatment of symptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS).1 However, the g…
Coronary-subclavian-steal syndrome (CSSS) is a known cause of myocardial infarction. This entity has been observed in individuals who present with angina. However, this case is unique because this is the first reported patient presenting not only wit…
Recent advances in balloon and stent technology have increased procedural success rates have resulted in expanded indications for percutaneous treatment of complex peripheral arterial disease. As a consequence, lesions traditionally approached with a…
Case PresentationA 69-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, s/p coronary artery bypass graft in 1994 (saphenous vein graft [SVG] to the right coronary artery [RCA], SVG to the diagonal branch, SVG to the obtuse marginal artery…
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an unusual cause of acute myocardial ischemia, with approximately 300 cases reported in the literature.1,2 It is often fatal and is mostly recognized at postmortem examination in young victims of sudde…
Coronary artery perforation is an infrequent but serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), occurring in some 0.3–0.6%.1–4 The classification by Ellis et al1 describes perforation as type I, an extraluminal crater without extra…