Category Archives: Interventional Cardiology

2/2024 vol. 20 1. Zaidat OO, Fifi JT, Nanda A, et al Continue reading →

View Larger Image Muhammad Ali Zulqarnain, M.D. Nov Continue reading →

Fascinated by the prospect of a glorious Michigan summer evening waiting for me, I sat in a dimly lit darkroom wrapping up an imaging study report. It was later than I had hoped to still be at the hospital, and as I was getting ready to pack up, my phone pinged. Continue reading →

THE LEADERS IN HEART CARE ARE AT HAMILTON. Continue reading →

November 20, 2023 A groundbreaking advancement in the treatment of patients with uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) has been achieved with the recent U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of two renal denervation (RDN) systems. Continue reading →

November 22, 2023 Medinbox, a leading global provider of video integrated collaboration systems for interventional rooms and labs, has launched its latest product suites to enhance live collaboration for medical education, proctoring and remote support in the interventional space. Continue reading →

Brahmananda Narayana Multi-speciality Hospital,Jamshedpur (a unit of Narayana Health), welcomed the esteemed addition of Dr. Continue reading →

According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, more than 6.2 million Americans have heart failure. The condition is common, and you might be surprised to know that it doesnt always mean your heart is acutely failing. Continue reading →

A new network analysis adds yet more evidence that PCI performed with angiography alone is inferior to procedures performed either with adjunctive intravascular imaging or invasive functional tests. The meta-analysis, which included 32 randomized, controlled trials with more than 22,600 patients, showed that functionally guided PCI with primarily fractional flow reserve (FFR) or instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR), as well as intravascular imaging using IVUS or optical coherence tomography (OCT), outperformed angiography-guided PCI alone for reducing MACE over follow-up ranging from 6 months to 5 years. Currently, functional testing with FFR or iFR is a class 1 recommendation to help guide decisions around PCI, while use of IVUS is a class 2a recommendation to help reduce the risk of ischemic events in left main CAD or complex coronary lesions, with optical coherence tomography (OCT) considered a reasonable alternative to IVUS. Continue reading →

The most famous textbook in interventional cardiology, Grossman and Baims Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography and Intervention, now bears the name of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on its inside cover. Marc D. Feldman, MD, emeritus and adjoint professor of medicine in the Janey and Dolph Briscoe Division of Cardiology, worked with Mauro Moscucci, MD, of the University of Michigan, to co-edit the first paperback version of the classic book. Continue reading →