Myocardial Revascularization: PCI/Stent or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft—What Is Best for Our Patients?Cardiac resynchronization therapyChildrenHeart failureIsolated left ventricular non-compactionIn my opinion, decisions regarding which type of revascularization is to be performed on a specific patient ...
Read Jim Hoag’s Journey to Heart Recovery: Learn How a Protected PCI Procedure Improved His Ejection Fraction Learn more about complex heart disease and advanced heart failure. Find out how you can talk with your cardiologist and discover if Protected PCI is right for you. Watch...
This involves inserting a catheter into the blood vessels to diagnose and assess blocked arteries, determine the presence of heart disease, and evaluate heart function. During cardiac catheterization, invasive cardiologists can also perform angioplasty and stenting. Angioplasty is a procedure that ...
Patients who received an ACE/ARB tended to be younger; had fewer comorbidities before AMI admission; had high-risk AMIs; were more likely to have had a cardiac catheterization during their AMI admission; were less likely to have conditions related to ACE/ARB side effects either before or ...
Many corporate and even physician owned hospitals make an interesting arrangement: they make the referring physicians visiting consultants so that they can be paid referral fee as consultation fee; sometimes they even “wash up” for the procedure or surgery (at least on paper) when as a matter...
Currently, a hybrid approach is recommended when undertaking CTO-PCI, as it emphasizes flexibility in addressing the CTO at the onset and during the procedure (Figure 1).13 The most common reason for CTO-PCI failure is the inability to cross a lesion with a guidewire. Three main strategies ...
rupture is considered a stable plaque. The vulnerable plaque is characterized by a thin fibrous cap, large lipid-rich core, and plaque inflammation. It is not necessarily the bigger plaque. Plaque rupture is an important mechanism underlying most cases of acute heart attack and sudden cardiac ...
The TandemHeart was placed in the patient through cardiac surgery. Tandem Heart Indications Prolonged ischemia during the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may have severe hemodynamic effects in individuals with poor left ventricular function and high-risk coronary lesions. Tandemheart is a short-te...
Another interesting and innovative aspect of this trial is the so-called state-of-the-art approach for PCI. This approach combines physiologically guided intervention, the use of a novel thin strut (70 µm, with abluminal biodegradable polymer coating stent—SYNERGY, Boston Scientific) and a man...
Reperfusion therapy is one of the treatments for patients suffering from or at risk of having a heart attack. It can raise a patient’s chances of survival by 50%, and improve his quality of life. In order to choose the most suitable type of reperfusion therapy, the patient must be exami...