Interventional cytopathology in the COVID‐19 era

Nuclear Cardiology — In the Era of the Interventional Cardiology

Angiographic predictors of adverse outcomes in the modern interventional era.

The development of preprocedural angiographic risk stratification criteria was meaningful in the balloon angioplasty era (1). Acute ischemic complications consisted of angiographic complications with impairment of epicardial coronary blood flow. The demonstration that these postpercutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ischemic complications were related to the preprocedural angiographic complex...

Exercise testing post-MI: still worthwhile in the interventional era.

Valeur et al. report findings from a substudy of the DANAMI-2 trial. The paper describes the prognostic importance of a pre-discharge maximal exercise test following acute myocardial infarction in the era of aggressive reperfusion treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Exercise testing has been validated and adopted for risk stratification before discharge in patients with acu...

Era of diagnostic and interventional ultrasound.

It is an era of diagnostic and interventional ultrasound (US). Various new techniques such as three-dimensional US (3D US), interventional US, and contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) have been introduced into clinical practice. Dr. Xu and his colleagues have taken advantage of these techniques and carried out a series of relevant studies. Their use of 3D US in the liver, gallbladder, liver tumor volume...

Percutaneous interventional procedures in an era of liver transplantation

Percutaneous needle biopsy 1-4 under image guidance have been increasingly used in the diagnostic work-up of focal hepatic lesions. In addition, percutaneous ethanol injection therapy (PEIT) 5 and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) 6 are useful in managing hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC). A liver mass with an elevated serum α-fetoprotein (AFP) does not automatically indicate HCC. Moreover, AFP is an...