Cases in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Read & Share cases

A 70-year-old male patient was referred to hospital with signs of acute myocardial infarction. Echocardiography confirmed impaired left ventricular function and severe low flow, low gradient aortic valve stenosis. Would you go for surgical aortic valve replacement or transfemoral TAVI?

An 81-year-old lady with past history of surgical aortic valve replacement followed by implantation of dual-chamber permanent pacemaker was admitted for recurrent episodes of right heart decompensations. The echocardiographic evaluation revealed massive TR and moderate primary MR due to a retracted posterior leaflet. What would be...

Conduction disturbances remain the most common complications of TAVI and its main drawback compared to surgery. How would you treat this 82-year-old man, height 1.68 m, weight 112 kg, with peripheral artery disease, who presented with severe aortic stenosis and symptoms of NYHA Class 3 breathlessness?

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.