T here is increasing interest in registry data to get a clear picture of contemporary practice in various fields, however many existing registries have significant limitations. The OPEN registry of PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) used a large number of centres (42% of interventional centres in France) and thus is probably truly representative of national practice. In all centres, conse...

BACKGROUND It is unknown whether the appropriate use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has improved over time and whether trends in PCI appropriateness have been accompanied by changes in the use of PCI. METHODS AND RESULTS We applied appropriate use criteria to determine the appropriateness of all 51 872 PCI performed in Washington State from 2010 through 2013. We evaluated the num...

A retrograde approach through the collateral channels was recently proposed as one of the most promising current techniques for percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion in coronary arteries (CTO). This report describes the case of a 68-year-old man in whom CTO was successfully crossed with a wire by the retrograde approach using septal collateral, but the patient suffered f...

2010;56;254-263 J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. John S. Rumsfeld Masoudi, Charles McKay, Kathleen Hewitt, Ralph G. Brindis, Eric D. Peterson, and Gregg C. Fonarow, David Dai, Anita Y. Chen, Lloyd W. Klein, Frederick A. Matthew T. Roe, John C. Messenger, William S. Weintraub, Christopher P. Cannon, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Treatments, Trends, and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction and This ...

The further that I read into Whittle and colleagues’ editorial on patients’ optimism about percutaneous coronary interventions, the more the suspense grew. Imagine my surprise when I found no real reference to the effect of the cardiologist’s needs and wants on the frequency of the procedure being offered. The more powerful person in the therapeutic relationship is the doctor, not the patient, ...

We report on the use of Perc NCircle atraumatic stone forceps to retrieve stones during laparoscopic ureterolithotomy. We think that it is a safe, simple device and that it has significant advantages over other methods.

OBJECTIVES To assess the timeframe of postprocedural complications following transradial percutaneous intervention in selected nonlow-risk risk patients as a feasibility study for same day discharge. BACKGROUND Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is traditionally performed as an inpatient procedure. Transradial access with its lower complication rate facilitates safe and same day dischar...