Monthly Archives: September 2020

Assessment of acute injuries and chronic intimal thickening of the radial artery after transradial coronary intervention by optical coherence tomography. Yonetsu T, Kakuta T, Lee T, Takayama K, Kakita K, Iwamoto T, Kawaguchi N, Takahashi K, Yamamoto G, Iesaka Y, Fujiwara H, Isobe M, Japan. AIMS: Transradial coronary intervention (TRI) introduces a trauma to the…

Preventing Leg Amputations in Critical Limb Ischemia With Below-the-Knee Drug-Eluting Stents. The PaRADISE (PReventing Amputations using Drug eluting StEnts) Trial. Andrew J. Feiring, Mari Krahn, Lori Nelson, Amy Wesolowski, Daniel Eastwood, and Aniko Szabo, Division of Cardiac and Vascular Intervention, Columbia-St. Mary’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Department of Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College…

Letter to the Editor of Transradial Approach to All Interventional Procedures. A Matter of the Learning Curve. Tomasz Pawlowski, Tomasz Kulawik, Robert J. Gil. Recently, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions published a report describing the role of transradial approach (TRA) in interventional cardiology (1). Its authors pointed out that the TRA is as feasible and effective as…

Effectiveness of enoxaparin for prevention of radial artery occlusion after transradial cardiac catheterization. Hasan Feray, Cemil Izgi, Diler Cetiner, Ebubekir Emre Men, Yelda Saltan, Ayhan Baltay and Reyhan Kahraman, Department of Cardiology, Gaziosmanpasa Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, Esat Is Cad. Sifa Sok, 15/4, 34710 Moda, Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of this study was to assess…

Radial vs. femoral approach for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in octogenarians. Michael Koutouzisa, Gran Matejkaa, Gran Olivecronab, Lars Gripa, Per Albertssona. Background: The transradial approach is associated with fewer bleeding complications during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) but is more technically challenging and associated with prolonged times during intervention. The aim of this study is to…

Successful Percutaneous Endovascular Management of Acute Post-traumatic Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection Using a Transradial Approach. Patel T, Kuladhipati I, Shah S. Acute aortic dissection extending into the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) following a blunt trauma is an extremely rare complication. We report a case of acute post-traumatic SMA dissection presented with an acute abdominal syndrome. Computed…

Treatment for LMCA ostial stenosis using a bifurcation technique with a retrograde approach. Shinichi Shirai, Tatsuki Doijiri, Masashi Iwabuchi, Division of Cardiology, Kokura Memorial Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan. A 69-year-old man who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery in February 2008. The surgery included grafting of the left internal thoracic artery (LITA) to the diagonal branch (D1)…

The way to the heart is through the wrist. New procedure reduces recovery time. Michael Glover, St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue springs. Blue Springs, MO – Dr. Daniel Dunker, a cardiologist at St. Mary’s Medical Center, specializes in a catheterization procedure that is safer and more comfortable for patients. It’s called transradial catheterization. It’s…

Open Sesame Technique for chronic total occlusion. Shigeru Saito, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Division of Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratories, Heart Center of Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, 1202-1 Yamazaki, Kamakura City, Japan. Angioplasty for chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the coronary artery is still technically challenging. New techniques to improve the success rate are still required. The…