Other coronary interventions

View this case of a 79-year-old woman complaining of atypical chest pain for 3 months, with diabetes and end-stage chronic kidney disease. Coronary CT revealed diffuse calcifications BUT critical coronary artery stenosis was excluded...

View this case of a 57-year-old woman, with a negative cardiovascular history, but who is a heavy smoker (40xday >20 years) and hypertensive, and who suffered typical chest pain at rest. She arrived at the Emergency Room of a peripheral hospital without a cathlab facility. Her...

Consult this case by Takayuki Warisawa et al. of the retrieval of disrupted balloon catheter with trapping.

Takayuki Warisawa1,2, Takanobu Mitarai2, Shunichi Doi2, Mizuho Kasahara2, Norio Suzuki2, Manabu Takai2, Hisao Matsuda2, Christopher M. Cook1, Justin E. Davies1, Yoshihiro J. Akashi2

1. Cardiovascular Science, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital - UK
2. Division of...

View this case of a 79-year-old male with a diagnosis of hepatocarcinoma and severe AVS, mild mitral regurgitation and AF under oral anticoagulation who was admitted for TAVI…

View this very uncommon case in which balloons do not expand even after a rather aggressive rotational atherectomy: a 43-year-old male with hypertension, smoking and dyslipidemia presents with total occlusion of proximal left anterior descending artery with fresh thrombus...

Consult this case study by I. Cigalini on how to manage LAD type III perforation with persistant leak: a 78-year-old female with hypertension.

This is the case of an 84-year-old woman in good general condition, with severe AVS on medical management, chronic atrial fibrillation and admitted with heart failure and chest pain...

Guidewire loss when the jailed wire is seen to protrudes into the aorta can occur: learn the step-by-step approach to managing this complication here.

This is the case of an 83-year-old woman with arterial hypertension, hypercolesterolemia, onset of continuous chest pain at rest with anterior STEMI on ECG and medicated with ASA and Ticagrelor and transferred to the cathlab.

This is the case of a 63 y/o male, who experienced CAD with stenting for LCx 3 years ago, who suffers from hypertension and Diabetes mellitus type 2 and is in the end stage of renal disease with hemodialysis.