Twitter Cases in interventional cardiology

Welcome to the #CardioTwitterCase section, which aims to extend the lifespan of a selection of fascinating cases shared on Twitter by publishing them on PCRonline - so that you can revisit them whenever you want! The cases are selected by Luis Ortega-Paz and Aaysha Cader. This section covers all topics in Interventional cardiology like STEMI, NSTEMI, Stents and scaffolds, TAVI , Bifurcation, Mitral, radial access, and more ...

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Treatment of a huge femoral artery pseudoaneurysm with a suture based vascular closure device

17 Nov 2020

In this case, a few days after TAVI the heart team has to treat a femoral artery pseudoaneurysm on a 83-year woman. Learn more about their strategy!

Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

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Mohamed Abdel-Wahab
Dmitry Sulimov

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Dmitry Sulimov

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Holger Thiele
Treatment of a huge femoral artery pseudoaneurysm with a suture based vascular closure device

TAVI: The way in, where there is no other way

05 Jun 2020

Consult this Twitter case concerning a patient with severely diseased aorta, and no options for transvascular or transapical approach who underwent self-expandable TAVI through sheathless transcaval approach

Ignacio J Amat-Santos

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Ignacio J Amat-Santos
TAVI: The way in where there is no other way

"Rocky" right coronary artery

06 Feb 2020

74-year-old man with chest pain and a positive stress test with calcified coronary lesions. Nice example of calcium modification after rota burr in Optical Coherence Tomography.

Jorge Andres Chavarria Viquez

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Jorge Andres Chavarria Viquez
'Rocky' right coronary artery

Extensive spontaneous coronary artery dissection in STEMI patient undergoing fibrinolysis

06 Nov 2019

Consult this Twitter Case concerning a 39-year-old female patient with no risk factor for coronary artery disease who presented to the emergency department with anterior STEMI...

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Adriano Caixeta
Extensive spontaneous coronary artery dissection in STEMI patient undergoing fibrinolysis

BAT technique to the rescue during primary PCI

15 Jul 2019

Consult this Twitter Case concerning a 61-year-old man with a diagnosis of anterior STEMI who was immediately transferred to the cath lab for primary percutaneous coronary intervention...

Ricardo Kiamco

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Ricardo Kiamco
BAT technique to the rescue during primary PCI

Clinical and echocardiographic signs of severe aortic regurgitation due to infective endocarditis

05 Jul 2019

Patient with severe aortic regurgitation due to infective endocarditis, the echocardiogram showed a bicuspid aortic valve as the risk factor...

Cyntia Machain

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Cyntia Zulema Machain Leyva
Clinical and echocardiographic signs of severe aortic regurgitation due to infective endocarditis

Plaque rupture in young with Rheumatoid Arthritis

25 Mar 2019

Consult this Twitter Case concerning an 37-year-old woman with Non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction in a young woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Cesar Villalobos

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Cesar Villalobos
Plaque rupture

Left internal mammary artery dissection during percutaneous coronary intervention and treatment

28 Feb 2019

Consult this Twitter Case concerning a 70-year-old man with previous CABG, unstable angina and Cardiac SPECT with anterior ischemia 

Cesar Villalobos

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Cesar Villalobos
Left internal mammary artery dissection during PCI and treatment

Transradial balloon aortic valvuloplasty

23 Jan 2019

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) may still have a role in the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) era. Trans-radial BAV, herein described, has been developed to reduce peripheral complications and make the procedure safer.

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Francesco Saia
Trans-radial balloon aortic valvuloplasty

So many culprits, so little time

12 Jan 2019

Severe multi-vessel coronary artery disease in a survivor of in-hospital VF cardiac arrest – what is the best revascularisation strategy?

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Aung Myat
Andreas Kalogeropoulos

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Andreas Kalogeropoulos
So many culprits, so little time