March 2009

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Volume 21 Issue 3
In-Situ Wire Technique in Coronary Fistula Closure
From the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Interventional services, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York. Disclosure: Dr. Carlos Ruiz is a consultant to AGA Medical Corporation. Neither Dr. Schneider nor Dr. Jain have conflicts relat…
Treatment of Severe Regurgitation of Stentless Aortic Valve Prosthesis with a Self-Expandable Biological Valve
From the Division of Cardiology, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Italy. Disclosure: Dr. Gian Paolo Ussia is a proctor for CoreValve Inc. None of the other authors report any conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript…
Septal Infarction and Complete Heart Block following PCI of the LAD (full title below)
From the *SUNY Buffalo Cardiology Fellowship, Buffalo, New York, and §Buffalo VA Medical Center, Buffalo, New York. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted November 17, provisional acceptance g…
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and the Role for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: To Treat or Not To Treat?
From the *Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, and the §Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham,…
Nonsurgical Closure of Recurrent Rupture of Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm in the Presence of Aortic Prosthesis
From the Department of cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted September 2, 2008, provisional a…
Focus: Adjunctive Pharmacotherapy
Medical Director The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and The Lindner Center for Research and Education Professor of Clinical Medicine Ohio State University ___________________________________________ “If I had an enemy, I would teach him…
Editor's Message - March 2009
Dear Readers, The March 2009 issue of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology coincides with the 58th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology and includes original research articles, commentaries and case reports with interesting…
A Calcified Neointima — “Stent” within a Stent
From the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Dr. Džavík was supported in part by the Brompton Funds Professorship…
Critical Ostial Celiac Trunk Stenosis Presenting as Abdominal Angina during Massive Pulmonary Embolism with Cardiogenic Shock
From the Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology and Angiology, General Teaching Hospital, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. The authors report no financial relationships or conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manus…
Bivalirudin Use during PCI for Stent Thrombosis in a Patient with Subacute Intracranial Hemorrhage
From the *Department of Internal Medicine, and the §Division of Cardiology, Baystate Medical Center, The Western Campus of Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, Massachusetts. Disclosures: Dr. Giugliano is on the speaker’s bureau of Sche…