Supporting High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions With Mechanical Devices

Percutaneous circulatory assist devices for high-risk coronary intervention.

A unifying definition of what constitutes high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention remains elusive. This reflects the existence of several recognized patient, anatomic, and procedural characteristics that, when combined, can contribute to elevating risk. The relative inability to withstand the adverse hemodynamic sequelae of dysrhythmia, transient episodes of ischemia-reperfusion injury, or...

Distal protection devices during percutaneous coronary and carotid interventions

Distal embolization of particulate matter complicates percutaneous coronary and peripheral interventions more often than had been recognized until recently. A number of distal protection devices are under development. The PercuSurge GuardWiretrade mark is a balloon occlusion thrombectomy device approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for saphenous vein graft intervention. A n...

Circulatory support with Impella CP device during high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions: initial experience in Poland

Corresponding author: Dariusz Dudek MD, PhD, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Institute of Cardiology, 17 Kopernika St, 31-501 Krakow, Poland, phone: +48 12 424 71 81, fax: +48 12 424 71 84, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 1.03.2016, accepted: 14.06.2016. Circulatory support with Impella CP device during high-risk percutaneous coronary inte...

Stroke after percutaneous coronary interventions.

n this issue of the Journal, Dukkipati et al. (1) identified the ncidence, predictors, and outcomes of stroke in patients ndergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). troke occurred in hospital in 92 of 20,670 patients (0.3%) fter PCI, which is higher than the reported rates of 0.08% o 0.17% after diagnostic catheterization (2). The good news in this report is that brain injury hapened...

High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Modern Day Clinical Practice: Current Concepts and Challenges.