Invasive blood pressure monitoring is fairly common in acute care setting, using a small cannula in radial artery connected to a pressure transducer system.
Symptoms pointing to specific valvular lesions: PND in MS, angina in AS, exertional palpitation in MR/AR, syncope in AS, episodic palpitation in MS with AF
Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) are devices implanted for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes and include pacemaker, ICD, CRT and ILR.
Coronary artery perforation is an important, rare complication of PCI. Perforations can be caused by guide wires, angioplasty balloons or rotablator burr.
Transvenous IVUS guided PCI for CTO is a novel technique in which the IVUS catheter is introduced through the cardiac vein parallel to the target artery