In this editorial, the problem of restenosis after coronary balloon angioplasty and other transluminal interventions is reviewed from the perspective of quantitative coronary angiography. The review is largely based on the experience of the Thoraxcentre in the application of quantitative angiography to the study of restenosis over the past decade, with incorporation and discussion of relevant a...

Angiographic assessment of epicardial coronary artery blood flow has played a pivotal role in our understanding of the “time-dependent open artery hypothesis” and in the evaluation of reperfusion strategies over the past 2 decades.1–8 It has become increasingly apparent, however, that clinical outcomes are not only associated with angiographic flow in the epicardial artery, but also with angiog...

AIMS In many countries, drug-eluting stent implantation is the dominant interventional strategy. We evaluated the clinical, angiographic, procedural, and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) predictors of angiographic restenosis after sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation. METHODS AND RESULTS SES implantation was successfully performed in 550 patients with 670 native coronary lesions. Six-mon...

AIM To present our experience on transarterial treatment of dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) with ONYX in adult patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between March 2008 and November 2012, 27 adult patients with DAVFs treated by transarterial ONYX embolization were included. Clinical data, including hospital records, operative reports, and angiograms, were reviewed and analyzed. RESULTS Complet...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Because recanalization of coiled cerebral aneurysms is reported to occur, follow-up imaging is mandatory, ideally noninvasively. Our study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of an optimized angiographic CT by using intravenous contrast material injection in the assessment of coiled cerebral aneurysms, compared with MR angiography and digital subtraction angiography, the crite...

T he study reported by Hess et all in this issue of Circulation presents a timely opportunity to discuss several issues that are directly relevant to use of angiographic methods for estimating myocardial perfusion. These issues are motivation for use of angiographic methods, limitations of the gold standard used, limitations of the angiographic method, limitations of the conceptual model used a...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether eptifibatide decreases the incidence of in-laboratory angiographic complications and to determine the relationship of angiographically evident complications to elevations of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) enzyme levels during percutaneous coronary intervention. BACKGROUND In the Enhanced Suppression of the Platelet IIb/IIIa Receptor with Integrilin Therap...

OBJECTIVES We sought to assess the relation between plasma lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels, clinical variables and angiographic coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with chronic stable angina. BACKGROUND The relation between plasma Lp(a) levels and the severity and extent of angiographic CAD has not been studied in well characterized patients with stable angina pectoris. METHODS We inves...