Myocardial laser revascularization

Myocardial laser revascularization.

Some patients with severe angina have coronary artery disease which is unsuitable for conventional forms of revascularization — coronary angioplasty/ stenting or coronary artery bypass surgery. These patients have usually undergone previous revascularization procedures and have disease which is diffuse and affects the distal part of the coronary circulation. Transmyocardial laser revascularizat...

Myocardial perfusion after transmyocardial laser revascularization.

Laser Revascularization To the Editor: I read with interest the report of Iskandrian et al.1 The authors described a case of improvement of perfusion in the right coronary artery territories (after transmyocardial revascularization), as well as in the territory of the left anterior descending artery and the circumflex artery (after CABG surgery). I’d like to ask the authors why they were sure t...

Transmyocardial and percutaneous myocardial laser revascularization.

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Myocardial revascularization.

Percutaneous laser revascularization does not equal transmyocardial laser revascularization.

We appreciate the suggestions of Dr. Veyrat regarding our study (1) and agree that it would be of interest to trigger the computed tomographic (CT) images at the time point of maximal aortic valve opening as previously calculated with Doppler velocity-time integral. However, some technical and logistic considerations arising from the CT perspective should be taken into account. The heart rate m...