04 2020 - 8 articles
When performing revascularisation of a chronic total occlusion, contralateral injection is essential to visualise the distal bed of the occluded vessel, adding to procedural success. Here we describe a case of antegrade recanalisation of a left anter...
Significant progress in the treatment of cardiovascular disease has been achieved in the past decades [...]
De Winter syndrome is a rare presentation in patients with acute left anterior descending artery occlusion, thus an equivalent of anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) requiring immediate coronary angiography. We present a case of de Wi...
Coronary artery aneurysm formation following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents is a known, infrequent complication, causing late acquired strut malapposition, a potential trigger for in-stent thrombosis [...]
We report the case of a 44-year-old woman who developed a thrombus of life-threatening size in the right atrium. The thrombus had formed around the catheter tip of her tunnelled central venous catheter, which was inserted for haemodialysis. Because o...
A 69-year-old female patient previously treated for a non- ST-elevation myocardial infarction with implantation of a drug-eluting resorbable magnesium stent (RMS) in the right coronary artery (RCA) was readmitted after 8 months because of unstable an...
BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease and renal failure are conditions with severe clinical impact. Current evidence indicates a close link between acutely impaired kidney function and adverse cardiovascular outcomes after percutaneous coronary interve...
Syncope is a common symptom in emergency department visits and, despite extensive evaluation, still remains unexplained in a significant number of cases. Our study compared the clinical characteristics of patients with syncope of unexplained aetiolog...
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