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Managing Coronary Thrombus in the Cath Lab During PCI

The last two articles specifically address the question of therapeutic maneuvers for dealing with intracoronary thrombus during PCI. Either the thrombus is removed by aspiration or manual thrombectomy or embolic protection devices are deployed to prevent downstream embolization. Are there any other methods in selected cases? No one in the symposium has considered thrombolytic therapy as a metho...

Cath lab accreditation: our ACE in the hole.

This morning on the Fox News program ‘‘House Call,’’ internist and commentator Dr. Marc Siegel told viewers that one out of every seven patients who receives an angioplasty does not meet the criteria for it and that one out of every two patients gets an unnecessary stent. What people must do, he said, is make sure they have ‘‘a proper cardiologist treating you . . . one who won’t have a knee je...

Radiation exposure in different cardiac catheterization procedures in cath lab.

BACKGROUND Interventional procedures render cardiologolists and their team members to high doses of radiations. This study was conducted to assess the radiation exposure in various cardiac catheterization procedures. METHODS This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at the catheterization laboratory of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar from November 2008 to December 2009. Patients wer...

Left Atrial Myxoma Hypervascularized from the Right Coronary Artery: An Interesting Cath Lab Finding

Primary cardiac tumors are rare and approximately half of them are atrial myxomas. They rarely remain asymptomatic, especially if large. The imaging of a myxoma by contrast dye during coronary angiography is an infrequent sign, which clarifies the vascular supply of the tumor. We report herein an interesting and rare case of a left atrial myxoma hypervascularized from the right coronary artery.