Cases in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Read & Share cases

Let's try to guess which foreign body was found in a 23-year-old male patient with a diagnosis of lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma under treatment with chemotherapy, and how it was safely removed.

It is challenging to treat bending calcified coronary lesions with CA. Using a guide extension catheter-supported back-up force to advance a bulky atherectomy device and a guidewire bias to the calcified lesion enabled imaging observation and sufficient dilation using a scoring balloon, which led to stent-less...

A 44-year-old man, smoker, overweight, recently declared healed from COVID-19, was admitted to our institution for acute myocardial infarction with inferior ST-Segment elevation...

An 81-year-old male underwent PCI of an extensively calcified LAD coronary artery. Lesion preparation was done using cutting and scoring balloons, followed by drug-eluting stent implantation. Despite serial dilations, including the use of a very High-Pressure NC balloon, stent expansion could not be achieved...

A 74-year-old female with a history of peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes presented to our outpatient clinic with atypical angina and shortness of breath on exertion...