abstract：:A 67-year-old male with prior history of myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass grafting (individual vein grafts to the left anterior descending artery [LAD] and right coronary artery) presented with an acute anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. The vein graft to the LAD was occ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Shah RA,Khanal S,Kugelmass A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to review current studies relevant to the link between impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of the reduction in life expectancy in patients with diabetes. Seventy-five percent of diabetic patients die prematurely of ca...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Schnell O

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of the "vulnerable" plaque has recently emerged to explain how quiescent atherosclerotic lesions evolve to cause clinical events. The morphologic and immunologic determinants specific for the vulnerable plaque have been reported: a large lipid core (>or=40% plaque volume) composed of free cholesterol cryst...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Toutouzas K,Drakopoulou M,Stefanadi E,Siasos G,Stefanadis C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol septal ablation is increasingly being offered as a therapy for patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. The procedure is most often performed in stable patients with a history of increasing symptoms. We describe a patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy with an acute decompensation s...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Rohatgi S,Wiegers SE,Hsia H,Herling I,Herrmann HC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been growing interest in transcatheter closure of interatrial septal defects (IASDs) for a variety of indications, but reports are limited in patients with hypoxia from right-to-left shunting. METHODS:Between August 2000 and October 2004, 181 patients were referred to our institution for elective ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Ilkhanoff L,Naidu SS,Rohatgi S,Ross MJ,Silvestry FE,Herrmann HC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the progress made in acute angiographic evaluation and obtaining durable reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the past two decades, cardiac free wall rupture (FWR) is still one of the causes of mortality following AMI. In this study, we evaluated the role of thrombolysis in the risk of FWR i...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Okino S,Nishiyama K,Ando K,Nobuyoshi M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal embolic protection devices have been shown to reduce the risk of peri-procedural complications associated with saphenous vein graft intervention. However, there are several important anatomic limitations that may preclude routine device use. We analyzed the angiograms of 624 consecutive saphenous vein graft int...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Webb LA,Dixon SR,Safian RD,O'Neill WW

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextrocardia is a rare anomaly affecting 0.01% of newborns. We report on a case of a 60-year-old female with mirror-image dextrocardia who presented with an acute myocardial infarction and underwent primary angioplasty of the left circumflex artery. A review of the literature and technical challenges of the case will ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Jauhar R,Gianos E,Baqai K,Roethel M,Kaplan BM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a common diagnosis in young adults with congenital heart disease. The aim of this study was to determine if ocular symptoms following percutaneous treatment are due to microemboli. The study group included 20 adult patients (9 men, 11 women, mean age 57.2 years) with ASD who had undergone...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Ehrlich R,Mutzmacher L,Averbuch L,Dotan G,Hirsh R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the growing use of drug-eluting stents, restenosis remains to occur especially in high risk subgroups like patients with diffuse in-stent restenosis. This observation is supporting the search for new and potentially even more effective drug eluting stent systems. Everolimus has been used in conjunction with a ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Störger H,Grube E,Hofmann M,Schwarz F,Haase J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-eluting stents have altered the practice of interventional cardiology by dramatically reducing the risk of angiographic and clinical restenosis following percutaneous coronary intervention. Based on extensive preclinical study and clinical trial data, the polymer-based, slow rate-release paclitaxel-eluting TAXUS ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Halkin A,Stone GW

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Conventional percutaneous coronary intervention for the treatment of in-stent restenosis (ISR) has shown a high rate of ISR (30-55%). Considering the need for both extrusion of hyperplastic intima and additional stent expansion, a cutting balloon might be more effective for the treatment of ISR. METHODS:W...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Rahel BM,Suttorp MJ,ten Berg JM,Bal ET,Ernst SM,Rensing BJ,Kelder JC,Plokker HW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Irrigated tip radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmias was developed to increase the size of the radiofrequency-induced lesion, since cooling of the electrode tip allows use of higher power settings. The purpose of this study was to determine if the increased lesion size during irrigated tip ablation...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Petersen HH,Roman-Gonzalez J,Johnson SB,Hastrup Svendsen J,HaunsØ S,Packer DL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study assesses clinical outcomes in patients from the Potential Angina Class Improvement From Intramyocardial Channels (PACIFIC) trial of percutaneous transmyocardial revascularization (PTMR) who had previously been considered "no-option," but who subsequently underwent percutaneous coronary inte...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Lowe HC,Oesterle SN,He KL,Macneill BD,Burkhoff D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The latest generation of interactive cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) scanners has made cardiac interventions with real-time MRI possible. To date, cardiac MRI has been mostly applied to measure myocardial perfusion, viability, and regional function, but now the application of cardiac MRI can be extended to c...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Rickers C,Gallegos R,Seethamraju RT,Wang X,Swingen C,Jayaswal A,Rahrmann EP,Kastenberg ZJ,Clarkson CE,Bianco R,O'Brian T,Verfaillie C,Bolman RM 3rd,Wilke N,Jerosch-Herold M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral Regurgitation (MR) is a common medical problem. MR is also a prognostic factor; patients with severe symptomatic MR have a poor prognosis with an annual mortality rate of 5% without surgical intervention. An anatomic understanding of the normal and regurgitant mitral valve is essential in order to evaluate appr...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Condado JA,Vélez-Gimón M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interventional management strategies involving early angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are increasingly widespread in the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Notwithstanding the benefits of early intervention, there is a significant risk of postprocedural thrombotic compl...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Grines CL,O'Neill W

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcatheter dilatation is considered the elective treatment of residual coarctation. In the presence of native coarctation, dilatation is often effective but in the first months of life, and the risk of aneurysm formation is not low. The use of stents in adolescents and adults provides excellent results and seems to...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Piéchaud JF

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The aim of this study was to determine the impact of previous with cytomegalovirus (CMV) on restenosis after aggressive angioplasty with provisional stenting. DESIGN:We prospectively studied 78 consecutive patients scheduled for 6-month follow-up coronary angiography as part of the SIPS study. Anti-CMV IgG ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Mueller C,Hodgson JM,Bestehorn HP,Brutsche M,Perruchoud AP,Marsch S,Roskamm H,Buettner HJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using a modular bifurcated stent-graft requires the initial placement of the main component in the infrarenal aorta, followed by insertion of additional iliac stent-graft(s) to exclude aneurysm and to securely affix the device. Placement of the contralateral iliac componen...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Dawson DL,Terramani TT,Loberman Z,Lumsden AB,Lin PH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different coils have been used to close the patient ductus arteriosus (PDA). In small- and moderate-sized PDA, coils are an adequate alternative to surgery and/or to other devices. The aim of the study is to review and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using coils (excluding PFM coils PFM Medical, Germany) t...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Galal MO

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catheter closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) is an accepted procedure among pediatric cardiologists. We report our early experience with the newest of these devices in clinical trials in the United States. Between April and October 2001, 14 patients were enrolled in an FDA phase II multicenter trial comparing the ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Vincent RN,Raviele AA,Diehl HJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local delivery of immunosuppressive or antiproliferative agents using a drug-eluting stent is a new technology that is supposed to inhibit in-stent restenosis, thus providing a biological and mechanical solution. This technique is a very promising. To date, several agents have been used, including paclitaxel, QP-2, ra...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Grube E,Büllesfeld L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catheter-based vascular interventions have been in development worldwide for several decades, leading to remarkable progress in device technology. Mechanical interventional devices, such as angioplasty balloons, atherectomy devices, and stents, were invented and have contributed greatly to the treatment of atheroscler...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Kataoka T,Honda Y,Bonneau HN,Yock PG,Fitzgerald PJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with an intracardiac intravenous catheter fragment in the right heart that was found during fluoroscopy. The catheter fragment had broken off from an intravenous catheter inserted 25 years previously when the patient was admitted after a road accident. There were no complications during these yea...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Van Den Akker-Berman LM,Pinzur S,Aydinalp A,Brezins M,Gellerman M,Elami A,Roguin N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct stenting could potentially lead to a reduction in dissections, time, and restenosis at 6-month follow-up. Using the premounted Palmaz-Schatz Crown stent elective stenting was performed without predilatation in 61 consecutive patients who were compared with a control group of provisional stenting. All patients u...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Rahel BM,Suttorp MJ,Ten Berg JM,Bal ET,Ernst SM,Mast EG,Kelder JC,Plokker HW

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three consecutive patients with 85 coronary total occlusions undergoing coronary angioplasty were retrospectively studied. Patients were divided into two groups according to the occlusion age that was < 30 days (subacute total occlusion [STO]: 25 patients; range 1-30 days) or > 30 days (chronic total occlusion ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Piscione F,Galasso G,Maione AG,Pisani A,Golino P,Leosco D,Indolfi C,Chiariello M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant proportion of patients with coronary artery disease have symptoms refractory to medical treatment, yet are unsuitable for conventional revascularization techniques, like percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass surgery. Such patients are potential candidates for alternative forms of ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Harjai KJ,Chowdhury P,Grines CL

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consistent message that emerges from virtually every recent acute coronary syndrome (ACS) trial is that the old "standard" of using aspirin and unfractionated heparin (UFH) can be considerably improved upon. Low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) (most notably enoxaparin) are emerging as a broad replacement for UFH...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Ferguson JJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the case of a 61-year-old male patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and chest pain on exertion. Coronary angiography and intravascular ultrasound revealed an intermediate stenosis in the proximal site of the left anterior descending artery, while Tc-99m myocardial scintigraphy revealed exercise-induced ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Tsukamoto M,Azuma A,Kuribayashi T,Kawasaki T,Yamamoto K,Kawata K,Sugihara H,Nakagawa M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability, rapidity, and safety of nonsurgical, transatrial pericardial access for local cardiac therapy have been demonstrated in healthy animals. Since many patients take aspirin or have increased right-sided pressures, we evaluated the procedure's safety under these conditions. Transatrial pericardial access ...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Pulerwitz TC,Waxman S,Rowe KA,Quist WC,Lipinska I,Verrier RL

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6Fr Hydrolyser thrombectomy catheter for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) successfully removed a massive thrombus in the coronary artery in three patients. The 6Fr Hydrolyser catheter could be advanced into the right coronary artery with bare-wire methods via a 6Fr sheath at the radial artery. This approach sugge...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Yingfeng L,Nakamura S,Tanigawa J,Nakagawa A,Kitano K,Kitagawa M,Takahashi H,Matoba Y,Katoh O

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nonsurgical closure of pathologic vascular communications can be achieved by coil embolization. Different systems used in patients with congenital heart disease (e.g., patent ductus arteriosus) allow controlled release of the devices. However, they are too stiff for coil occlusion of small or tortuous vess...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Sieverding L,Breuer J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the occlusion rate and safety of Cook detachable coils versus Gianturco coils in transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). BACKGROUND:The Cook detachable coil recently was introduced in an attempt to improve the safety of transcatheter closure of PDA. METHODS:Between January 199...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Galal MO,Bulbul Z,Kakadekar A,Fatani AE,de Moor M,el-Oufi S,Solymar L,al-Fadley F,Fawzy ME

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different types of occluder systems were used to close a persistent foramen ovale (PFO) in 162 patients with paradoxical embolic events. Ninety-eight patients had ischemic stroke, 60 transient ischemic attacks (TIA) or prolonged reversible ischemic neurological deficit (PRIND), and 4 had peripheral arterial embol...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Beitzke A,Schuchlenz H,Gamillscheg A,Stein JI,Wendelin G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantable cardioverter defibrillators are devices capable of detecting and terminating ventricular tachycardias or fibrillations. They are utilized in the treatment of severe ventricular tachyarrhythmias, and their efficacy in the prevention of sudden death is demonstrated. As a matter of fact, despite the new antia...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Coumel P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of radiofrequency energy for the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia in pediatric patients has gained widespread acceptance, especially for tachyarrhythmias associated with palpitations, dizziness, presyncope or syncope, cardiomyopathy, and cardiac arrest. Ablation of the substrate supporting atrioventri...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Dorostkar PC,Dick M 2nd

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with severely impaired left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 30% were randomized between prophylactic intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) support (N = 20) and percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass (PCPB) support (N = 20). The indications f...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Kaul U,Sahay S,Bahl VK,Sharma S,Wasir HS,Venugopal P

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser thrombolysis is a new, experimental, catheter based intervention aimed at selectively removing intracoronary thrombus. This first clinical study was performed to assess the feasibility and safety of laser thrombolysis, as well as its potential therapeutic place in acute myocardial infarction. Eighteen patients w...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： den Heijer P,van Dijk RB,Pentinga ML,Hillege HL,Lie KI

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antithrombotic effect of three different types of antithrombotic agents (antithrombin:argatroban, heparin, defibrinogenating agent:batroxobin) were evaluated in canine coronary and iliac arteries. An occlusive thrombus was produced by balloon injury. One of the three agents was infused intravenously at 1 hour afte...

journal_title：Journal of interventional cardiology

authors： Tomaru T,Nakamura F,Miwa AY,Fujimori Y,Omata M,Okada R,Uchida Y

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00