Three recent reports shed light on a topic that has so far received little attention: impeded access to the coronary arteries after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Nonoptimal alignment ...

Your catheter should be engaged in a coaxial fashion with the coronary ostium and should “seat” well, allowing contrast injections to fill the artery lumen. For the left coronary and dilated aortic ...

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With more than 20 late-breaking trials and first report sessions and nearly 800 abstracts, the program of last year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Scientific Symposium in San Francisco ...

A proposed algorithm for lesion specific techniques is illustrated in Figure 5. It is important to visualize the bifurcation branches in order to assess if a lesion is a true bifurcation. If there is ...

Although initially described in the early 1970s, technological advancements during the past 2 decades have allowed IVUS to evolve into an over-the-wire, high-resolution cross-sectional in vivo imaging ...

A recent prospective study carried out in Korea and the US investigated the location of plaque ruptures in native coronary arteries with the use of three-vessel intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). Hong ...