Live case presentations are increasingly common at interventional cardiology conferences. Taking advantage of significant advances in communication technology, broadcasts of procedures can be viewed as an extension of traditional medical education targeted to large groups of practitioners. However, there are important ethical, commercial, and patient safety issues associated with live cases tha...

It was not long ago that I was a medical student at McGill. I graduated in the class of 1996. When I started to do interventional work as a Cardiology Resident at McGill, we were well into the era of coronary intervention. Almost every balloon angioplasty was followed by the implantation of a stent, which had been shown to improve the immediate and long-term results of interventional therapy. L...

This randomized controlled trial examined a discharge nursing intervention aimed at promoting self-regulation of care for early discharge interventional cardiology patients. The purpose of this study was to compare medication adherence, patient satisfaction, use of urgent care, and illness perception in patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing interventional revascularization procedures ...

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Hietzing, Vienna, Austria; Interventional Cardiology, Clı́nico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,...

Arnoud W. J. van ‘t Hof1, Suzanna T. deVries1, Fernando Nadal2, Marcela Niella2, Marion J. Fokkert3, Robbert J. Slingerland3, Angela H. E. M. Maas1, Gee C. van Enst4 1Department of Cardiology, Isala klinieken, Zwolle, The Netherlands; 2Department of Interventional Cardiology, Hospital Espanol, Mendoza, Argentina; 3Department of Clinical Chemistry, Isala klinieken, Zwolle, The Netherlands; 4Depa...

Current management of patients with AIS relies primarily on conservative approach. Suggested streamlined fast-track single-stop approach should expedite the workflow and improve clinical outcomes. Given the broadly available interventional cardiology expertise cardiologist should play an active and sensible role in the development of new interventional concepts of care of patients with acute is...

During the last 10 years, there have been major technological achievements in pediatric interventional cardiology. In addition, there have been several advances in cardiac imaging, especially in 3-dimensional imaging of echocardiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and cineangiography. Therefore, more types of congenital heart diseases can be treated in the cardiac catheter...