Volume 3 Number 5 March 2008

The challenge of innovation: lost opportunities and new and uncharted futures

• Serruys PW

EuroInterv.2008;3:533

Have we been misled by the ESC DES firestorm?

• Cook S,
• Meier B

EuroInterv.2008;3:535-537

Residual shunting after treatment of a persistent arterial duct

• Witsenburg M,
• Bogers A

EuroInterv.2008;3:539-540

Patient and staff radiation doses should be known by interventional cardiologists

• Vano E

EuroInterv.2008;3:541-542

EAPCI membership: converging worlds and techniques

• Wijns W

EuroInterv.2008;3:543-545

Tryton I, First-In-Man (FIM) study: six month clinical and angiographic outcome, analysis with new quantitative coronary angiography dedicated for bifurcation lesions

• Onuma Y,
• Müller R,
• Ramcharitar S,
• van Geuns R-J,
• Louvard Y,
• Morel M-A,
• Morice M-C,
• Davis R,
• Kaplan A,
• Lefèvre T,
• Grube E,
• Serruys PW

EuroInterv.2008;3:546-552

A novel dedicated quantitative coronary analysis methodology for bifurcation lesions

• Ramcharitar S,
• Onuma Y,
• Aben J-P,
• Consten C,
• Weijers B,
• Morel M-A,
• Serruys PW

EuroInterv.2008;3:553-557

First-in-human feasibility and safety study of a true bifurcated stent for the treatment of bifurcation coronary artery lesions (DBS stent): six month angiographic results and five year clinical follow-up

• Dibie A,
• Chevalier B,
• Guyon P,
• Fajadet J,
• Lefèvre T,
• Slama M,
• Royer T,
• Glatt B,
• Philippe F,
• Laborde F,
• Larrazet F

EuroInterv.2008;3:558-565

Differentiated analysis of an everolimus-eluting stent and a paclitaxel-eluting stent among higher risk subgroups for restenosis: results from the SPIRIT II trial

• Khattab A,
• Richardt G,
• Verin V,
• Kelbaek H,
• Macaya C,
• Berland J,
• Miquel-Hebert K,
• Dorange C,
• Serruys PW

EuroInterv.2008;3:566-573

First clinical comparison of Nobori-Biolimus A9 eluting stents with Cypher-Sirolimus eluting stents: NOBORI CORE nine months angiographic and one year clinical outcomes

• Ostojic M,
• Sagic D,
• Beleslin B,
• Jung R,
• Perisic Z,
• Jagic N,
• Nedeljkovic M,
• Mangovski L,
• Milosavljevic B,
• Stojkovic S,
• Orlic D,
• Antonic Z,
• Miloradovic V,
• Topic D,
• Paunovic D

EuroInterv.2008;3:574-579

Optical coherence tomography to assess malapposition in overlapping drug-eluting stents

• Tanigawa J,
• Barlis P,
• Dimopoulos K,
• Di Mario C

EuroInterv.2008;3:580-583

Percutaneous closure of previously surgical treated arterial ducts

• Kusa J,
• Szkutnik M,
• Czerpak B,
• Bialkowski J

EuroInterv.2008;3:584-587

Use of endovascular clamping as neuroprotection during carotid stenting in the presence of a critical ipsilateral stenosis of the external carotid artery

• Stabile E,
• Sorropago G,
• Tesorio T,
• Salemme L,
• Ambrosini V,
• Cioppa A,
• Popusoi G,
• Nammas W,
• Biamino G,
• Rubino P

EuroInterv.2008;3:588-592

A multicentre survey of patient exposure to ionising radiation during interventional cardiology procedures in France

• Bar O,
• Maccia C,
• Pagès P,
• Blanchard D

EuroInterv.2008;3:593-599

Haemodynamic effects, safety, and tolerability of haemoglobin-based oxygen carrier-201 in patients undergoing PCI for CAD

• Serruys PW,
• Vranckx P,
• Slagboom T,
• Regar E,
• Meliga E,
• de Winter R,
• Heyndrickx G,
• Schuler G,
• van Remortel E,
• Dubé GP,
• Symons J

EuroInterv.2008;3:600-609

Ischaemic events and bleeding in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with concomitant bivalirudin treatment

• Madsen JK,
• Chevalier B,
• Darius H,
• Rutsch W,
• Wójcik J,
• Schneider S,
• Allikmets K

EuroInterv.2008;3:610-616

A novel penetration catheter (Tornus) as bail-out device after balloon failure to recanalise long, old calcified chronic occlusions

• Reifart N,
• Enayat D,
• Giokoglu K

EuroInterv.2008;3:617-621

Spelling out risk reduction strategies for intracoronary stenting

• Lanzer P,
• Prechelt L

EuroInterv.2008;3:622-626

Myocardial infarction in a patient with sickle cell trait. Treatment dilemmas and imaging findings at follow-up

• van Mieghem CAG,
• Ramcharitar S,
• Barlis P,
• Oosterhuis W,
• Kik C,
• de Feyter P,
• Serruys PW

EuroInterv.2008;3:627-634

The vPredict™ Optical Catheter System: Intravascular Raman Spectroscopy

• Brennan III JF,
• Nazemi J,
• Motz J,
• Ramcharitar S

EuroInterv.2008;3:635-638

ClearWay™ RX - Rapid exchange therapeutic perfusion catheter

• Saraf S,
• Ong P,
• Gorog DA

EuroInterv.2008;3:639-642