discussion the reason is that we assess the relative and not absolute differences of the tracer uptake in this imaging modality. there may be other findings on mpi images which could help us overcome this pitfall, including detecting wall motion abnormalities, lung uptake of the tracer, or transient ischemic dilation. another important issue is the ecg changes during exercise stress testing, wh...

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy is the leading cause of death after the first year of heart transplantation. The optimal treatment for unprotected left main coronary artery disease in orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) patients is unknown. Two OHT patients with left main disease following heart transplantation underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Technical success was achieved...

SEE PAGE 318 T raditionally, left main coronary artery disease had been regarded as a dominion of the cardiac surgeons on the basis of results from the classic trial comparing medical treatment and bypass surgery (1,2). However, several brave pioneers in interventional cardiology have continued to evaluate the performance of “less invasive” coronary stenting for the left main coronary artery st...