Cardiac Surgery With Percutaneous Interventional Backup

Cardiac surgery with percutaneous interventional backup: a paradigm shift.

Percutaneous coronary intervention without onsite cardiac surgery backup.

INTRODUCTION Mechanical revascularization by percutaneous coronary interventions has now become an established and preferable method of revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes. The aim of the study was to identify the clinical indications for percutaneous coronary interventions and in-hospital outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions in a tertiary-level hospital witho...

Interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery in Cambodia.

www.thelancet.com Vol 379 March 31, 2012 1197 One must use extreme caution in accepting the published trial data as proof of the concept of B-cell-driven pathogenesis in multiple sclerosis. Indeed, most authors of this paper were also involved with the clinical trial of B-cell-targeted treatment with atacicept that was terminated by the sponsor because of serious worsening of disease in the tre...

Percutaneous Common Carotid Artery Access for Pediatric Interventional Cardiac Catheterization.

BACKGROUND Surgical cutdown for access to the common carotid artery provides a more direct route for certain pediatric cardiac interventions and avoids femoral artery injury in small infants. The safety of percutaneous carotid access (PCA) in children is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Retrospective review of PCA at Texas Children's Hospital and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. From July 2006 t...

Percutaneous coronary intervention without onsite cardiac surgery.

INTRODUCTION Danish health authorities have major concerns with regard to the risk and the quality of care of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) without onsite cardiac surgery. We report the results of the first Danish PCI centre without onsite cardiac surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 245 patients underwent 254 elective PCIs during a six-month study period. The outcome measures ...