Volume 6 Number 9 April 2011

To be equal before them: natural tragedies, gender and a shrinking world

• Serruys PW

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1025-1027

Gender outcomes in acute myocardial infarction: are women from Venus and men from Mars?

• Sweeny J,
• Mehran R

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1029-1031

Plumbers and electricians: you need both to build a house

• Di Mario C,
• Auricchio A

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1033-1035

Transcatheter mitral valve stent implantation

• Lozonschi L,
• Lutter G

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1036

First-in-man evaluation of intravascular optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) of Terumo: a comparison with intravascular ultrasound and quantitative coronary angiography

• Okamura T,
• Onuma Y,
• García-García HM,
• van Geuns R-J,
• Wykrzykowska J,
• Schultz C,
• van der Giessen WJ,
• Ligthart J,
• Regar E,
• Serruys PW

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1037-1045

Efficacy and safety of clopidogrel after PCI with stenting in patients on oral anticoagulants with acute coronary syndrome

• Persson J,
• Lindbäck J,
• Hofman-Bang C,
• Lagerqvist B,
• Stenestrand U,
• Samnegard A

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1046-1052

Relation between clopidogrel discontinuation and early cardiovascular events after percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents

• Lemesle G,
• Torguson R,
• Bonello L,
• de Labriolle A,
• Maluenda G,
• Ben-Dor I,
• Collins S,
• Syed A,
• Xue Z,
• Satler L,
• Pichard A,
• Waksman R

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1053-1059

Five-year outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention compared to bypass surgery in patients with multivessel disease involving the proximal left anterior descending artery: an ARTS-II sub-study

• Garg S,
• Sarno G,
• Gutiérrez-Chico J-L,
• García-García HM,
• Gomez-Lara J,
• Serruys PW

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1060-1067 - DOI10.4244/EIJV6I9A185

Gender-related differences in mortality after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a large multicentre national registry

• Sadowski M,
• Gasior M,
• Gierlotka M,
• Janion M,
• Polonski L

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1068-1072

Female gender is an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality after STEMI in the era of primary PCI: insights from the greater Paris area PCI Registry

• Benamer H,
• Tafflet M,
• Bataille S,
• Escolano S,
• Livarek B,
• Fourchard V,
• Caussin C,
• Teiger E,
• Garot P,
• Lambert Y,
• Jouven X,
• Spaulding C

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1073-1079

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction in nonagenarian patients: results from a Spanish multicentre registry

• Salinas P,
• Galeote G,
• Martin-Reyes R,
• Perez-Vizcayno M,
• Hernandez-Antolín R,
• Mainar V,
• Moreu J,
• de la Torre J,
• Zueco J,
• Tello A,
• Jimenez-Valero S,
• Sánchez-Recalde A,
• Calvo L,
• Plaza I,
• Alfonso F,
• Mariscal F,
• de Sa E,
• Macaya C,
• López-Sendón J-L,
• Moreno R

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1080-1084

Hybrid strategy of a bare metal stent combined with a drug-eluting stent versus exclusive drug-eluting stent implantation for multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention

• Syed A,
• Ben-Dor I,
• Li Y,
• Collins S,
• Torguson R,
• Wakabayashi K,
• Gonzalez M,
• Maluenda G,
• Delhaye C,
• Belle L,
• Gaglia M,
• Jr. J,
• Xue Z,
• Kaneshig K,
• Bernardo N,
• Kent K,
• Suddath W,
• Satler L,
• Pichard A,
• Lindsay J,
• Waksman R

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1085-1090

CT measurement of changes in cerebral perfusion in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis undergoing carotid stenting prior to cardiac surgery: "proof of principle"

• Van der Heyden J,
• Waaijer A,
• Van ES W,
• van Neerven D,
• Sonker U,
• Suttorp M,
• Bal E,
• Prokop M

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1091-1097

Retrospective image-based gating of intracoronary optical coherence tomography: implications for quantitative analysis

• Sihan K,
• Botha C,
• Post F,
• de Winter S,
• Gonzalo N,
• Regar E,
• Serruys PW,
• Hamers R,
• Bruining N

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1098-1103

USage of chitosan for Femoral (USF) haemostasis after percutaneous procedures: a comparative open label study

• Arbel J,
• Rozenbaum E,
• Reges O,
• Neuman Y,
• Levi A,
• Erel J,
• Haskia A,
• Caneti M,
• Sherf M,
• Mosseri M

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1104-1109

Comparison between the first and second generation bioresorbable vascular scaffolds: a six month virtual histology study

• Brugaletta S,
• García-García HM,
• Diletti R,
• Gomez-Lara J,
• Garg S,
• Onuma Y,
• Shin E,
• van Geuns R-J,
• de Bruyne B,
• Dudek D,
• Thuesen L,
• Chevalier B,
• McClean D,
• Windecker S,
• Whitbourn R,
• Dorange C,
• Veldhof S,
• Rapoza R,
• Sudhir K,
• Bruining N,
• Ormiston J,
• Serruys PW

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1110-1116

Renal insufficiency following contrast media administration trial II (REMEDIAL II): RenalGuard system in high-risk patients for contrast-induced acute kidney injury: rationale and design

• Briguori C,
• Visconti G,
• Ricciardelli B,
• Condorelli G

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1117-1122

Clinical expert consensus document on standards for acquisition, measurement and reporting of intravascular ultrasound regression/progression studies

• Mintz G,
• García-García HM,
• Nicholls S,
• Weissman N,
• Bruining N,
• Crowe T,
• Tardif J-C,
• Serruys PW

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1123-1130

How should I treat a long and huge coronary pseudoaneurysm after spontaneous coronary artery dissection?

• Furuichi S,
• Montorfano M,
• Godino C,
• Murino M,
• Sangiorgi G,
• Colombo A

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1131-1136

Tools & Techniques: the antegrade recanalisation technique for CTO

• Werner G

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1137-1139

Anomalous origin of the left anterior descending and circumflex coronary arteries from two separate ostia in the right aortic sinus of Valsalva

• Abramowitz Y,
• Aviram G,
• Finkelstein A,
• Banai S

EuroIntervention 2011;6:1140-1141