October 2007

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Volume 15 Issue 10

Editorial Staff

Clinical Editor
Morton Kern, MD
Executive Editor
Laurie Gustafson
Managing Editor
Rebecca Kapur
Production Manager
Elizabeth Vasil

Editorial Correspondence

Rebecca Kapur, Managing Editor, Cath Lab Digest
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Saints Medical Center Cardiac Cath Lab is a TEAM in every sense of the word!Left to right: Dave Green, RN, BSN, EMT-P; James Waters, MD, Medical Director, Cardiac Cath Lab; Jennifer McCarthy, MSN, RN, Director of Cardiovascular Services; Rich Snyder, RN;
Saints Medical Center
What type of procedures are performed at your lab? We perform elective heart caths, angioplasty, stent implants, pacemaker implants, trans-esophageal echos (TEE) and cardioversions. We perform approximately 20 cases per week and recently have…
Figure 1. Conventional angiography. Panel A: Tight narrowing with a small aneurysm of 2 mm at the trifurcation of the left renal artery. Post balloon dilatation dimensions are shown in Panel B.
Fibromuscular Dysplasia in Children and Adolescents
Furthermore, some may present with stroke, cardiac failure or other manifestations of end organ damage or ischemia. Typical clinical manifestations are renovascular hypertension, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, abdominal angina or claudication of th…