Category: Angiography and Interventions

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.

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

Risk ratio of delayed neointimal coverage was 9 for nonapposed side branch struts and 9.1 for incomplete stent apposition, compared to well apposed stent struts.

Role for cardiac catheterisation in GUCH has come down remarkably with availability of echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and CT.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is being accepted more and more as an effective treatment for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis in patients at high surgical risk.

Bioresorbable vascular scaffolds or (bioabsorbable coronary stents) tend to restore the coronary configuration and systolo diastolic movements to those seen before implantation.