BACKGROUND Despite advancements in the devices and techniques used for percutaneous coronary intervention, side branch (SB) wiring remains highly challenging in certain complex bifurcation intervention cases. METHODS AND RESULTS In this report, we demonstrate the efficacy and safety of the balloon block and support technique (BBST), which comprises inflation of an appropriately sized balloon ...

This paper examines how a firm’s financial distress and the legal environment regarding the ease of bankruptcy reorganization can alter product market competition and supplier-buyer relationships. We identify three effects, predation, bail-out, and abetment, that can change firms’ behavior from their actions in the absence of financial distress. The predation effect increases competition before...

BACKGROUND The optimal treatment of patients with left main coronary artery (LMCA) dissection during catheter-based procedure remains uncertain. HYPOTHESIS In cases with significant LMCA dissection occurring during catheter-based procedure, prompt stent implantation may be safe and associated with favorable clinical outcome. METHODS We evaluated the acute and long-term results of bail-out s...

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of ventricular tachycardia (VT) can fail because of inaccessibility to the VT substrate. Transarterial coronary ethanol ablation can be effective but entails arterial instrumentation risk. We hypothesized that retrograde coronary venous ethanol ablation can be an alternative bail-out approach to failed VT RFA. METHODS AND RESULTS Out of 334 consecutive...

Abstract In the course of Covid-19 global pandemic, corporate restructuring laws worldwide underwent a stress test as financial health companies significantly deteriorated. response to public demand, legislators in Czech Republic adopted various bail-out programmes and bail-in measures order provide debtors who ran into temporary problems connection with pandemic additional protection against i...

Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. INTRODUCTION The for-profit bail bonding industry has relied upon several recent studies to make the claim that commercial surety bonds are the most effective type of pretrial release. This paper provides an overview of those s...

Alan Mitchell, the first doctor to be elected president of European Committee for Prevention Torture, emphasises impact increased restrictions in prisons during pandemic, including cells being locked prolonged periods.1 In UK, confinement alone or with a cellmate has extended 22-24 hours each day.2 A recent joint report from charities Medical Justice and Bail Immigration Detainees describes ef...

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Thoracic endovascular aortic reconstruction (TEVAR) is increasingly used in the management of descending aortic pathology including aneurysms, dissections and transaction. When treating aortic arch pathology, hybrid procedures have been devised, in which major supra-aortic arteries are translocated using a variety of techniques. Such hybrid procedures offer an attractive alternative to open arc...