Euro4C Cases - the management of complex patients with calcified CAD

Find out more about a 77-year-old male patient with hypertension without good BP control, dyslipidaemia, Type II-DM, ex-smoker, who had triple CABG in 2006, EF 60% in 2017, and presented with dyspnea. 

Find out more about how the authors managed a 79-year-old male presenting with ACS and lateral ischemia with a calcified and tortuous left circumflex that could not be crossed with balloons... and a 61-year-old male with inferior STEMI presenting with an “undilatable” lesion of the right coronary artery...

Reviewers:

Michele Pighi, Pierre Deharo and Flavio Luciano Ribichini

Find out more about the case of a 72-year-old male, very active, previous smoker with hypertension, who underwent a stress echo for dyspnea on exertion...

Reviewers:

Michele Pighi et Flavio Luciano Ribichini

Find out more about the case of a 70-year-old male with previous heart transplantation at 48 yo due to IHD, claudication of the right leg, and PTA of iliac arteries...

Find out more about the case of an 85-year-old male with dyslipidemia, former smoker with previous cardiovascular events, symptomatic for worsening epigastric pain and shortness of breath...

A 74-year-old, obese, smoker, hypertensive male patient with significant COPD is seen for worsening symptoms of stable angina CCS II. As this is a high-risk profile, and given the typical symptoms observed, a coronary angiogram is recommended as the first-line examination.

An 83-year-old male admitted for heart failure and chest pain, needs to undergo TA-TAVI because of severe PAD and has concomitant CAD with critical calcified lesion of the ULM-LAD...

View this case of an 81-year-old man with severely calcified critical stenosis at ostial-prox RCA...

View this case of a 79-year-old woman complaining of atypical chest pain for 3 months, with diabetes and end-stage chronic kidney disease. Coronary CT revealed diffuse calcifications BUT critical coronary artery stenosis was excluded...

View this case of a 57-year-old woman, with a negative cardiovascular history, but who is a heavy smoker (40xday >20 years) and hypertensive, and who suffered typical chest pain at rest. She arrived at the Emergency Room of a peripheral hospital without a cathlab facility. Her...