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The Anchor-Balloon Technique for Difficult Chronic Total Occlusions
May 3, 2013
Rajiv Goswami, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, TexasThis report describes intervention on a 73-year-old female with significant left main and triple-vessel coronary artery disease. We describe the sequence of multi-vessel intervention on the left main, obtuse marginal, and left anterior descending coronary artery CTO. Success in this…
Revisiting the Angiographic “Dot” Sign: A Useful Clue to Diagnose Anomalous Origin of Coronary Arteries
April 8, 2013
Visualization of the “dot” sign on the left ventricular (LV) angiogram in the RAO view (just posterior and to the left of the posterior aortic margin) is an easy clue to the identification of an anomalously arising circumflex artery with a retroaortic course. 
Two Louisiana Interventional Cardiologists Find a Good Fit with CardioSolution: 7 Days On, 7 Days Off
February 7, 2013
Two board-certified interventional cardiologists have found the unique model offered by CardioSolution to be a good fit. Dr. Yunus Moosa is an interventionalist practicing in Zachary, Louisiana (close to Baton Rouge) and Dr. Chris Mallavarapu is an interventionalist practicing out of Lafayette, Louisiana. Both are seasoned interventional cardiologists with experience doing no-surgical-backup…
Aberrant Circumflex Coronary Artery Intervention Using the “Anchoring Wire” Technique
February 6, 2013
Mzee Ngunga, MD, William Hui, MD, FRCPC, FACC, CK Hui Heart Centre, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Canada
Percutaneous Intervention of a Complex Ventricular Septal Defect
January 2, 2013
Harit Desai, DO, Nemalan Selvaraj, DO, Ulrich Luft, MD, and Jon C. George, MD, Division of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey A 62-year-old female with a known history of congenital heart disease, including coarctation of aorta post-angioplasty and a ventricular septal defect (VSD), presented to our facility for a second…
Transradial Renal Artery Stenting
December 3, 2012
Kintur Sanghvi, MD, David Hsi, MD, Deborah Heart & Lung Institute, Browns Mills, New JerseyA 69-year-old black female with previous history of coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass surgery, uncontrolled hypertension and hyperlipidemia was evaluated for repeated episodes of congestive heart failure. She had refractory hypertension with very high systolic blood pressure on each of…
Coronary Angiography Through the Eyes of the Interventional Cardiologist
October 15, 2012
Forward: Thomas H. Maloney, RT, RCIS, Richmond, Virginia Presentation: George W. Vetrovec, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University Pauley Heart Center, Richmond, Virginia
Robotic-Assisted PCI – A New Approach to the Transcatheter Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
October 1, 2012
Joseph P. Carrozza Jr., MD, Steward St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Tufts University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts   "While operating the robotic-assisted system, the interventional cardiologist can elect to wear a protective apron under a sterile gown, and perform functions at the bedside and the interventional cockpit, or he/she may elect not to scrub and manipulate the PCI…
Assessment of Geriatric Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
September 4, 2012
Geriatric patients may have diminished physiological reserves that can impact their ability to recover from PCI. Cath Lab Digest talks with Sarwat I. Chaudhry, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Fibromuscular Dysplasia: The Registry and Results
July 31, 2012
Registry data regarding patients with fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) was recently published in Circulation.1 Cath Lab Digest talks with Pam Mace, RN, FMD patient, Executive Director, Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America, Rocky River, Ohio, about the registry and her long experience with FMD.