OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the long-term impact of endoluminal low power red laser light (LPRLL) on restenosis in an atherosclerotic rabbit model. BACKGROUND Despite widespread application of balloon angioplasty for treatment of coronary artery disease, restenosis limits its clinical benefits. Restenosis is a complex process and may be partly attributed to the inability of the vascular e...

BACKGROUND Time to treatment with thrombolytic therapy is a critical determinant of mortality in acute myocardial infarction. Little is known about the relationship between the time to treatment with direct coronary angioplasty and clinical outcome. The objectives of this study were to determine both the time required to perform direct coronary angioplasty in the Global Use of Strategies to Ope...

Acute embolic occlusion of the intracranial internal carotid bifurcation is associated with a poor prognosis. Recanalization rates of this lesion with intravenous or intraarterial thrombolysis are exceedingly low. We describe the use of balloon angioplasty after failed thrombolysis to achieve immediate recanalization of acute carotid T occlusions in two patients. At 1-month follow-up, both pati...

Presently described is the case of a 55-year-old man who developed localized pain, allodynia, hyperpathia, and swelling over the right ankle joint following coronary balloon angioplasty, which had been performed via right femoral arterial access. Bone scan confirmed the diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome. Various analgesics were administered, along with physiotherapist-assisted exercis...

Implantation of coronary drug-eluting stent (DES) became a predominant therapeutic strategy for coronary artery disease. One of the possible complications after DES implantation is in-stent restenosis (ISR) and today it becomes a significant issue for interventional cardiologists that requires further sustained and efficacious treatment. Widely accepted classification of DES-ISR is morphologica...

A 62-year-old male was undergoing treatment of NHL with bone marrow involvement with thrombocytopenia. After 15min of starting of IV infusion of rituximab, he started having severe retrosternal chest pain, diagnosed as acute ST elevation inferior wall MI. Patient was pre-loaded with dual anti platelets. Coronary angiogram showed 100% occlusion of proximal RCA. Thrombosuction of this culprit RCA...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to assess whether coronary stenting produces better results compared with balloon angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after failed thrombolysis. BACKGROUND Little evidence exists on the value of rescue mechanical reperfusion after failed thrombolysis. METHODS This open-label, randomized study enrolled 181 patients with AMI refer...

W hen Odysseus attempted to sail unharmed between Scylla and Charybdis, he could not have dreamt to ever be quoted in relation to restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). To be truly successful, balloon dilatation should change the preexistent stenotic lesion to the extent that sufficient luminal widening is achieved and restenosis does not occur. Nevertheless, ap...

D uring the last 5 years, there has been a tremendous interest in the development of new devices for percutaneous treatment of peripheral and coronary artery obstructive arterial disease.1 As during the development of balloon angioplasty, many of these devices were first tested in peripheral arteries before their use in coronary arteries. Although this stage of new device development may no lon...

Although uncomplicated type B dissection is well established to be treated conservatively, adult aortic coarctation is still considered a surgical candidate in the presence of peak-to-peak coarctation gradient >20 mmHg. The treatment for aortic coarctation included surgical repair, balloon angioplasty, and stenting [17]. While balloon angioplasty is the preferred treatment for discrete coarctat...