Cases in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Read & Share cases

In this unusual STEMI case of a 75 year old hypertensive woman, find out how medical history can guide the therapeutic choices and how the interventional cardiologist can resist stent implantation...

STEMI patients treated with primary PCI have a high risk of cardiovascular events. However, the diagnosis of Microvascular obstruction (MVO) in cathlabs immediately after PCI remains difficult due to the lack of validated algorithm.

The COVID-19 barrier box is a modified aerosol box for intubation for continuous use in the Cathlab. View an illustrated example of how it can be used in this case of a 70-year-old woman with ACS and inferior AMI STEMI with fibrinolysis and transferred for angiography...

A 54-year-old male was admitted with an inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography (CAG) showed a thrombotic occlusion of the RCA and a total chronic occlusion (CTO) of the LAD and PCI on the RCA was performed.

A young male patient presents with STEMI. Coronary angiogram revealed a giant coronary aneurysm with large thrombus burden in right coronary artery branch: what would you do? Share your opinion!

A 20-year-old male with no history of previous illness presented to the emergency department because of chest pain that had started around three hours after physical exercise (soccer match)...

Consult this case of a 43-year-old male, smoker, who presented with acute inferior myocardial infarction (severe retrosternal chest pain of 2-hour duration, associated with ST elevation in the inferior leads) for PPCI...

A 52-year-old lady with no prior cardiac history or risk factors was admitted due to NSTEACS... 

In patients with advanced chronic kidney disease who require revascularization, PCI may safely be performed without contrast using imaging and physiological guidance with high procedural success and without complications. Find out more.

Consult this case with complications of knotted wire and severely disrupted stent during LAD PCI on a 51-year-old male.