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    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions: Volume 76, Issue 4

    461-625, E87-E129
    1 October 2010
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Coronary Artery Disease

Original Studies

Improving myocardial salvage in late presentation acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction with proximal embolic protection†

Eric Larose DVM, MD, FRCPC, FAHA,  Helena Tizon-Marcos MD,  Josep Rodés-Cabau MD,  Stéphane Rinfret MD, MSc,  Jean-Pierre Déry MD, MSc,  Can M. Nguyen MD,  Onil Gleeton MD,  Jean-Rock Boudreault MD,  Louis Roy MD,  Bernard Noël MD,  Guy Proulx MD,  Jacques Rouleau MD,  Gérald Barbeau MD,  Robert De Larochellière MD,  Olivier F. Bertrand MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 461-470
  • First Published: 15 April 2010

Editorial Comment

Primary PCI for the “Late Presenter” with STEMI: How late is too late?†

Barry F. Uretsky, MD, 
  • Pages: 471-472
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Original Studies

Outcomes of diabetics receiving bare-metal stents versus drug-eluting stents

Vijay S. Ramanath MD,  Jeremiah R. Brown PhD,  David J. Malenka MD,  James T. DeVries MD,  Mandeep S. Sidhu MD, MBA,  John F. Robb MD,  John E. Jayne MD,  Bruce D. Hettleman MD,  Bruce J. Friedman MD,  Nathaniel W. Niles II MD,  Aaron V. Kaplan MD,  Craig A. Thompson MD, MMSc, 
  • Pages: 473-481
  • First Published: 01 March 2010

Editorial Comment

Drug-eluting or bare metal stents for diabetics: Clinical judgment still wins†

William B. Hillegass MD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 482-483
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Original Studies

Does on- versus off-hours presentation impact in-hospital outcomes of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients transferred to a tertiary care center?†

Manuel A. Gonzalez MD, MPH,  Itsik Ben-Dor MD,  Kohei Wakabayashi MD,  Gabriel Maluenda MD,  Michael A. Gaglia Jr. MD, MSc,  Nicholas N. Hanna MD,  Cedric Delhaye MD,  Sara D. Collins MD,  Asmir I. Syed MD,  Lavinia P. Mitulescu MD,  Rebecca Torguson MPH,  William O. Suddath MD,  Joseph Lindsay MD,  Augusto D. Pichard MD,  Lowell F. Satler MD,  Ron Waksman MD, 
  • Pages: 484-490
  • First Published: 01 March 2010

Editorial Comment

Complacency, begone†

James C. Blankenship MD, FSCAI, 
  • Pages: 491-492
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Original Studies

Radial versus femoral access for orally anticoagulated patients†

Antonios G. Ziakas, MD, PhD,  Konstantinos C. Koskinas, MD, MSc,  Stavros Gavrilidis MD, PhD,  George D. Giannoglou MD, PhD,  Stavros Hadjimiltiades MD, PhD,  Ioannis Gourassas MD,  Efstratios Theofilogiannakos MD,  Fotios Economou MD,  Ioannis Styliadis MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 493-499
  • First Published: 01 March 2010

Editorial Comment

No free lunch: Transradial access in patients on coumadin†

Thomas T. Tsai MD, MSc, 
  • Pages: 500-501
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Original Studies

Early assessment of infarct size and prediction of functional recovery by quantitative myocardial blush grade in patients with acute coronary syndromes treated according to current guidelines†

Nina Riedle MS,  Hartmut Dickhaus PhD,  Markus Erbacher MSC,  Henning Steen MD,  Martin Andrassy MD,  Dirk Lossnitzer MD,  Stefan Hardt MD,  Wolfgang Rottbauer MD,  Christian Zugck MD,  Evangelos Giannitsis MD,  Hugo A. Katus MD,  Grigorios Korosoglou MD, 
  • Pages: 502-510
  • First Published: 19 March 2010

Editorial Comment

Quantitative myocardial blush grade: Prepped for a core lab standardization†

Christoph Hehrlein MD, 
  • Pages: 511-512
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Original Studies

Efficacy and safety of bivalirudin in patients receiving clopidogrel therapy after diagnostic angiography for percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes†

Dmitriy N. Feldman MD,  Robert M. Minutello MD,  Geoffrey Bergman MD,  Issam Moussa MD,  S. Chiu Wong MD, 
  • Pages: 513-524
  • First Published: 19 March 2010

Editorial Comment

It is standard practice, but is it really best practice or clinical biocreep?†

Ian C. Gilchrist MD, FSCAI, 
  • Pages: 525-526
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Case Reports

Postmortem in situ micro-ct evaluation of coronary stent fracture†

Jason Foerst MD,  Timothy Ball MD, PhD,  Aaron V. Kaplan MD, 
  • Pages: 527-531
  • First Published: 23 February 2010

3D reconstruction from contrast coronary angiography in magnetic percutaneous coronary intervention†

Mark Patterson, MRCP, MBBS, 
  • Pages: 532-535
  • First Published: 01 March 2010

Percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion in a left anterior descending coronary artery using an ipsilateral intraseptal bridging collateral tracking technique†

Makoto Suzuki MD,  Yaemi Takagi MD,  Etsuo Tsuchikane MD, 
  • Pages: 536-540
  • First Published: 26 March 2010

Editorial Comment

Progress in angioplasty for chronic total occlusions†

Shigeru Saito MD, FACC, FSCAI, 
  • Pages: 541-542
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Coronary Artery Disease

Interventional Rounds

Left main coronary artery compression from pulmonary artery enlargement due to pulmonary hypertension: A contemporary review and argument for percutaneous revascularization†

Michael S. Lee MD,  Jared Oyama MD,  Ravi Bhatia MD,  Young-Hak Kim MD,  Seung-Jung Park MD, 
  • Pages: 543-550
  • First Published: 15 April 2010

Non-Invasive Angiography

Case Report

Aortic coarctation by cardiovascular CT angiography†

Ambarish Gopal MD,  Lee Loewinger MD,  Matthew J. Budoff MD, 
  • Pages: 551-552
  • First Published: 30 April 2010

Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

Original Studies

Stenting of aortic coarctation: Acute, intermediate, and long-term results of a prospective multi-institutional registry—Congenital cardiovascular interventional study consortium (CCISC)†

Ralf Holzer MD,  Shakeel Qureshi MD,  Abdolrahim Ghasemi MD,  Julie Vincent MD,  Horst Sievert MD,  Daniel Gruenstein MD,  Howard Weber MD,  Luis Alday MD,  Alejandro Peirone MD,  Thomas Zellers MD,  John Cheatham MD,  Michael Slack MD,  Jonathan Rome MD, 
  • Pages: 553-563
  • First Published: 15 April 2010

Shunt reduction with a fenestrated Amplatzer device†

Oliver Kretschmar MD,  Anca Sglimbea MD,  Roberto Corti MD,  Walter Knirsch MD, 
  • Pages: 564-571
  • First Published: 19 March 2010

The immediate release patch in the correction of experimental atrial septal defects†

Basilios Sideris BS,  Eleftherios Sideris MD,  Marco Calachanis MD,  Vasilios Papantoniou MD,  Spiridon Moulopoulos MD, 
  • Pages: 572-577
  • First Published: 26 March 2010

Case Reports

Swan-Ganz-induced pulmonary artery rupture: Management with stent graft implantation†

Andrea Zuffi MD,  Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai MD,  Federico Colombo MD, 
  • Pages: 578-581
  • First Published: 26 March 2010

Editorial Comments

It was a nice sunny day: It was just a right heart catheterization†

Samuel M. Butman MD, FSCAI, 
  • Pages: 582-583
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Case Reports

Use of stingray re-entry system in treatment of complex tibial artery occlusive disease†

Ivan P. Casserly MB, BCh,  R. Kevin Rogers MD, MSCI, 
  • Pages: 584-588
  • First Published: 24 June 2010

Editorial Comment

Treating tibial chronic total occlusions: The next frontier in peripheral vascular disease†

Hernan A. Bazan, MD, 
  • Page: 589
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Case Reports

Giant splenic artery aneurysm: Managed in the cardiovascular catheterization laboratory using the modified neck remodeling technique†

Reji Pappy MD,  Candice Sech MD,  Thomas A. Hennebry MBBCh, BAO, FSCAI, FACC, 
  • Pages: 590-594
  • First Published: 15 April 2010

Migration of covered stents from hemodialysis A-V access to the pulmonary artery: Percutaneous stent retrieval and procedural trends†

Neil Dashkoff MD, FSCAI, FACC,  George A. Blessios MD, PhD, FACS,  Matthew R. Cox MD, 
  • Pages: 595-601
  • First Published: 19 March 2010

Valvular and Structural Heart Diseases

Original Studies

Optimal projection estimation for transcatheter aortic valve implantation based on contrast-aortography†: Validation of a Prototype Software

Apostolos Tzikas MD,  Carl Schultz MD, PhD,  Nicolas M. Van Mieghem MD,  Peter P.T. de Jaegere MD, PhD,  Patrick W. Serruys MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 602-607
  • First Published: 07 July 2010

Series of transcatheter valve-in-valve implantations in high-risk patients with degenerated bioprostheses in aortic and mitral position†

Moritz Seiffert MD,  Olaf Franzen MD,  Lenard Conradi MD,  Stephan Baldus MD,  Johannes Schirmer MD,  Thomas Meinertz MD,  Hermann Reichenspurner MD, PhD,  Hendrik Treede MD, 
  • Pages: 608-615
  • First Published: 30 April 2010

Case Report

Suicide left ventricle following transcatheter aortic valve implantation†

William M. Suh MD,  Christian F. Witzke MD,  Igor F. Palacios MD, 
  • Pages: 616-620
  • First Published: 29 April 2010

Hemodynamic Rounds

Retrograde left-ventricular hemodynamic assessment of mechanical aortic and mitral valve gradients using a high-fidelity pressure wire: A case series†

Theophilus E. Owan MD, MSc,  Bhavananda T. Reddy MD,  Andrew D. Michaels MD, MAS, 
  • Pages: 621-625
  • First Published: 19 March 2010

Online Only Manuscripts

Free Access

The SCAI Structural Heart Disease Council: Toward addressing training, credentialing, and guidelines for structural heart disease intervention†

Ted Feldman MD, FACC, FSCAI,  Carlos E. Ruiz MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI,  Ziyad M. Hijazi MD, FACC, FSCAI, 
  • Pages: E87-E89
  • First Published: 02 July 2010

Core Curriculum

Free Access

Interventional fellowship in structural and congenital heart disease for adults†

Carlos E. Ruiz MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI,  Ted E. Feldman MD, FACC, FSCAI,  Ziyad M. Hijazi MD, FACC, FSCAI,  David R. Holmes Jr. MD, FACC, FSCAI,  John G. Webb MD, FACC, FSCAI,  E. Murat Tuzcu FACC, FSCAI,  Howard Herrmann MD, FACC, FSCAI,  Gerard R. Martin MD, FACC, 
  • Pages: E90-E105
  • First Published: 02 July 2010
Free Access

Results of the society of cardiac angiography and interventions survey of physicians and training directors on procedures for structural and valvular heart disease†

Howard C. Herrmann MD, FACC, FSCAI,  Sandra Baxter PhD,  Carlos E. Ruiz MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI,  Ted E. Feldman MD, FACC, FSCAI,  Ziyad M. Hijazi MD, FACC, FSCAI, 
  • Pages: E106-E110
  • First Published: 02 July 2010
Free Access

SCAI/ACCF/HRS/ESC/SOLACI/APSIC statement on the use of live case demonstrations at cardiology meetings†‡§: Assessments of the Past and Standards for the Future

Gregory J. Dehmer MD (Chair),  John S. Douglas Jr. MD (Co-chair),  Alexander Abizaid MD, PhD,  Jessica W. Berg JD, MPH,  John Day MD,  Roger Hall MD,  Martin B. Leon MD,  Ziyad M. Hijazi MD,  Francis Marchlinski MD,  Seung-Jung Park MD,  Jeffrey J. Popma MD, 
  • Pages: E111-E125
  • First Published: 22 September 2010

Interventional Rounds

Free Access

Interventional cardiology live case presentations: Regulatory considerations†

Andrew Farb MD,  Sheila A. Brown RN, CCRC,  Deborah A. Wolf JD,  Bram Zuckerman MD, 
  • Pages: E126-E129
  • First Published: 22 September 2010