Category: Angiography and Interventions

MACCE including death, myocardial infarction, stroke and repeat revascularization was lower in the ischemia guided revascularization group

Left coronary angiogram showing PTCA balloon positioned at a lesion in the obtuse marginal (OM) branch of the left circumflex coronary (LCX) artery

Mehran score is useful for prediction of risk of contrast induced acute kidney injury in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Prevention of contrast nephropathy by BP cuff inflation: ischemic preconditioning with intermittent inflation

Drug eluting balloon with bare metal stent (BMS) implantation was found to be not superior to BMS alone in the DEB-AMI Trial.

Cardiac catheterisation laboratory is the place where angiography (imaging of blood vessels and the heart) and interventions are done.

Nanto’s technique is for changing a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) balloon catheter over a regular-length guide wire.

There is an inverse relation between the time to cardiac surgery after angiography and acute kidney injury.

Early stent thrombosis was calculated at thirty days, late stent thrombosis at one year and very late stent thrombosis at five years (0.26% per year).

TAP Stenting is an intentional protrusion of side branch stent within the main branch, thereby ensuring full side branch ostial coverage.