Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, Delaware, has received the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA).
I love hemodynamics in the cath lab and appreciate the opportunity to address problems with measurements and their interpretation. Dr. Safwan Kassas, from the Michigan Cardiovascular Institute, asked the following questions concerning hemodynamic cal…
We present herein a case of successful intervention of sequential lesions in an aberrant circumflex artery arising from the right coronary ostium, using a 5 French guide catheter and an anchoring wire into the normal right coronary artery to enable s…
We present a case of a lesion within a previously placed right coronary artery stent that was determined to be thrombotic in nature, thereby guiding the strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention.
In order to decrease the rate of systemic or coronary air embolization during intracoronary medication delivery, our cardiac catherization laboratory has modified a 3-line manifold by inserting a stopcock pigtail attached to a 5 mL drug (nitroglyceri…
We report the case of a 22-year-old male with a dissected right coronary artery following a motor vehicle collision while riding his bicycle, and the steps taken to repair the dissection.
