Stents, scaffolds and DCB

543 results

Complications lost scaffold: a dislodged bioresorbable scaffold

20 Feb 2019

Consult this clinical case by C. Y. Chin and S. T. Lim from the National Heart Centre, Singapore on OCT findings and management of a dislodged bioresorbable scaffold: a young 47-year-old male with LAD disease.

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Chee Yang Chin

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Soo Teik Lim

How to find a loss scaffold stent and capture it with a balloon?

15 Feb 2019

The visualisation of a scaffold stent is possible by the radiopaque markers in the stent and can be increased using enhancement technologies. Find out how!

The fate of spontaneous coronary artery dissection: insight from intravascular imaging at a late follow-up

14 Feb 2019

A 51-year-old woman was referred to our institution with an anterolateral ST-elevation myocardial infarction related to a subocclusive spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) extending to left anterior descending (LAD) and 1st diagonal (Dg1) arteries.

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N. Amabile, G. Souteyrand, P. Motreff, C. Caussin.

Case study: stent lost and retrieved

30 Jan 2019

Consult this clinical case a 72-year-old man with crescendo angina by S. Basavarajaiah and I. Mohammed on how to capture a stent loss to RCA into the ulnar artery.

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Sandeep Basavarajaiah

Retrieve the scaffold into the guiding catheter

28 Jan 2019

Do you know what is involved in retrieving a scaffold into the guiding catheter using low pressure balloon inflation? Learn about this technique here...

Case study: Is it really loose?

24 Jan 2019

Consult this clinical case on a 79-year-old male with long, tortuous and calcified LAD lesion from the Juan Ramon Jimenez Hospital, Huelva - Spain on how to handle the situation with a stent loss to the proximal LAD.

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Francisco Jose Caro Fernandez

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Jessica Roa Garrido

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Santiago Jesus Camacho Freire

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Uriel Fantino Martínez Capoccioni

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Antonio Gomez Menchero

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Jose Diaz Fernandez

A randomised comparison of healing response between the BuMA Supreme stent and the XIENCE stent

16 Jan 2019

Results of the PIONEER-II OCT trial

Authors :

T. Asano, Q. Jin, Y. Katagiri, N. Kogame, K. Takahashi, C. Chang, P. Chichareon, C. Wang, B. Shi, X. Su, G. Fu, Y. Wu, X. Zhou, Z. Yuan, J. J. Wykrzykowska, J. J. Piek, P. W. Serruys, Y. Onuma, Y. Chen

How should I treat an inflated trapped intra-coronary balloon?

04 Apr 2018

A 73-year-old male presented with acute chest pain and ST segment elevation in the inferior leads. Angiography revealed an occlusion of the mid right coronary artery. A drug-eluting stent was deployed and post-dilated throughout with a non-compliant balloon. However, the deflated balloon could not be retracted...

Coronary lost scaffold: lost off the wire

19 Dec 2018

How do you manage scaffold loss complications when the loss is off the wire? Learn how to proceed and when to stop in this step-by-step approach.

Crush technique

12 Dec 2018

What do you do when faced with a dislodged and unexpanded scaffold? Is the crush technique a valid clinical response? Learn the pro’s and con’s of this technique here…