Cases in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Read & Share cases

A 70-year-old gentleman with background of hypertension and smoking presented with STEMI. Coronary angiogram showed ectasia in the mid and distal segment with heavy thrombus burden.

An 81-year-old gentleman with a history of dyslipidemia, hypertension, presenting a new onset of angina and dyspnea in the last 2 years underwent exertional test which resulted positive for ischemia.

An 89-year-old man was referred for treatment of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis. This case describes the decision-making in performing TAVI in a patient with twin challenges of small annulus and significant LVOT calcification.

A 67-year-old female with a history of recurrent episodes of chest pain presented at the outpatient clinic. She also had a history of hyperlipidaemia, arterial hypertension, peripheral artery disease, diabetes mellitus type 2 and she was an active smoker.

A 80-year old man presented to hospital with an anterior non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and acute pulmonary edema... This case describes  a fractured microcatheters in calcific coronary arteries/chronic total occlusions.

View the case of an 85-year-old frail woman with end-stage renal disease, renal replacement therapy, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation...

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...