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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...

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...

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...

Rotational angiography and 3 D coronary modeling : revolutions in the cardiac cath lab

the coronary arterial tree, derived from analysis of two-dimensional angiographic data. The goal of each angiographic image is to view as much of the coronary tree as possible, while at the same time minimizing vessel overlap and foreshortening of vessel segments in areas of interest. Due to marked individual variation, however, many views provide little or none of the visual information needed...