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    • August 2018
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    Volume 26
    Issue 8
    What Type of AS Does Your Patient Have? Sorting Out Differences in the Low-Flow, Low Gradient Severe AS Patients

    Jeannie Yu1,2,3, MD, FACC, FSCCT, and Morton J. Kern1,2,3, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC

    How we understand patients with aortic stenosis has changed as the therapeutic approach has evolved.

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   644 reads
    What Would Happen to Your Hospital PCI Program Today if CMS Reimbursed for Elective PCI in the Ambulatory Setting?

    Anne Beekman, RN, BSN, NEC, focuses on a very relevant and growing challenge for many cardiac programs — competing and surviving in this new and rapidly changing healthcare environment, an environment that demands a population health focus with a heavy dose of consumerism. 

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   367 reads
    No More Crush on the AT: SOBE Vascular Balloon Protection Technique With the MicroMedical Stent System

    Cath Lab Digest talks with Robert E. Beasley, MD, 

    Section Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, and 

    Timothy E. Yates, MD, RPVI, Associate Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 

    Miami Beach, Florida.

    The Mount Sinai Medical Center featured the first in-man MicroStent and has thus far completed 5 total cases, all with procedural success and no complications in up to 30-day follow-up.

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   658 reads
    The Amputation Prevention Center at Rose Medical Center

    Cath Lab Digest talks with Sameer Mehta, MD, Heather Harris, Cardiovascular Director, and Andrew Burke, Lab Supervisor, Denver, Colorado.

    “We have seen a proliferation of wound care centers, but still felt there was a lack specifically for the patients with diabetic wounds and critical limb ischemia.”

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   475 reads
    Spotlight: Saint Vincent Hospital

    Kevin Tobin, RN, RCIS, Manager 

    Heart and Vascular Center, Erie, Pennsylvania

    The Saint Vincent Hospital Cath Lab is a combination cardiac and special procedures unit. Our department has a 6-bay pre/post unit, 3 procedure rooms, and will utilize a hybrid OR room as necessary.

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   4,646 reads
    A Comprehensive Evidence-Based Decision Algorithm for Assisting Clinicians and Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease in Selecting Revascularization Strategy in Multivessel Disease

    Lloyd W. Klein, MD1 and William S. Weintraub, MD2

    The adoption and consistent use of evidence-based information, rather than reliance on subjective judgment and its inherent biases, requires considerable effort and tools that are easily utilized in the clinical environment.

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   105 reads
    Minimizing Risk of Kidney Injury During Cardiac Evaluation in a Kidney Transplant Patient

    Jimmy Locklear1, MD, FACC, Kevin Lee2, MD 

    A 42-year-old Caucasian female with a long history of chronic kidney disease status post living donor-related kidney transplant 18 years prior cautiously underwent angiography as part of her workup for a second kidney transplant due to significantly declining kidney function.

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   6,804 reads
    Redefining Outpatient Care: Saving Lives & Limbs in Office-Based Labs

    Athar Ansari, MD, Director, California Heart & Vascular Clinic, 

    El Centro, California

    In increasing numbers, operators are choosing to treat their patients outside of hospitals within office-based labs (OBLs), and, equally importantly, patients are increasingly seeking these alternatives to hospital settings. 

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    Volume 26 - Issue 8 - August 2018   |   1,687 reads