44 results
Intercostal embolization of a stuck rotational atherectomy burr
02 Mar 2021
An elective right coronary artery PCI was scheduled in an 83-year-old gentleman. Due to the presence of severely diffuse and calcified disease, rotational atherectomy was decided, but the burr got entrapped in the severely calcified and tortuous proximal segment of the artery...
Interventional management of an aortic root fistula after aortic-valve endocarditis
25 Jan 2021
This is a 44-year old male patient with an aortic root fistula to the right heart after past infective aortic valve endocarditis. Interventional shunt occlusion was successfully performed using a transcatheter closure device.
The Controlled Antegrade and Antegrade Tracking (CAAT) technique for left main trunk bifurcation divided by a flap-like structure
29 Jan 2021
The authors present a case of PCI for left main trunk bifurcation divided by a flap-like structure in a 67-year-old man suffering from effort angina, in which they successfully used a novel tracking technique by modifying the reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde tracking (CART), which they called...
Multimodality guided management of an unusual case of STEMI
22 Dec 2020
A 47-year-old woman without previous medical history was admitted for chest pain with ST-segment elevation in the inferolateral leads. Echocardiography showed inferior and infero-lateral wall hypokinesia with preserved global left ventricular function...
IMPELLA supported PCI via a single access sheath - Introduction and rapid adoption: the Power of Social Media
22 Dec 2020
This manuscript examines Impella single access technique, which provides a case example of the central role social media can play in the introduction of a new interventional approach.
Three-dimensional optical coherence tomography-guided double kissing crush stenting
14 Dec 2020
The authors present a case of percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesion in a 73-year-old man suffering from effort angina, in which they successfully performed double kissing crush stenting using optical coherence tomography.
A percutaneous solution to transcatheter aortic valve thrombosis refractory to anticoagulation: valve-in-valve implantation of a supra-annular self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve
03 Aug 2020
A 56-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis underwent transapical TAVR in 2012. In 2017, the patient was referred for exertion dyspnea and transesophageal echocardiogram showed severe stenosis of the bioprosthesis...
Swinging through the Web; Mitraclip implantation in a patient with giant Chiari Network
17 Jul 2020
A 42-year-old man with primary MR secondary to P2 prolapse of the mitral valve (MV), presented with dyspnea on exertion...
Complex PCI supported by a guide catheter extension system through the frames of a self-expandable trans-catheter heart valve
05 Jun 2020
An 84-year-old man with arterial hypertension and previous hepatocellular carcinoma was admitted to our Emergency Department for new onset of exertional angina (CCS 3). The patient had a history of three-vessel coronary artery disease treated by complete surgical revascularization in 2007...
Angiography-based quantitative flow reserve in coronary vasospastic angina
03 Jun 2020
A 60-year-old woman with a history of cardiac arrest associated with MINOCA (myocardial infarction with no coronary artery disease) event in the territory of the left main artery, underwent coronary angiography for recurrent episodes of chest pain leading to 4 hospitalizations in the last 2 years...
