Author: Johnson Francis

Pannus is the ingrowth of fibrous tissue into the valve apparatus of prosthetic valves, causing valve dysfunction and increasing transvalvular gradients.

Using an anchor balloon for guide support can be tried when there is difficulty in passing a stent into a vessel.

Better to use an undersized stent than an oversized stent for SVG intervention. Distal overhang of the stent is required to reduce distal embolization.

IABP is a useful tool while performing unprotected left main stenting. Unprotected left main is one which is not protected by a patent graft or collaterals.

In SKS, it is difficult to reenter the lesion as the wire can pass through the struts of one stent and reenter the opposite vessel.

PCI in situs inversus with dextrocardia provides certain challenges to the interventionalists.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is being explored as an option for high operative risk moderate to severe functional mitral regurgitation.

Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great arteries, double outlet right ventricle and truncus arteriosus are the common types of conotruncal anomalies.

Staged PCI was independently associated with a lower all cause mortality at thirty days and one year in an analysis of HORIZONS-AMI trial.

Wide QRS tachycardia on Holter documented by Holter monitoring.