Aditya Belamkar, Aishwarya Pastapur, Nausheen Akhter, Daniel Schimmel
{"title":"Expanding the PERT paradigm: incorporating oncology expertise into multidisciplinary management of cancer-associated thrombosis.","authors":"Aditya Belamkar, Aishwarya Pastapur, Nausheen Akhter, Daniel Schimmel","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pulmonary artery rupture: Swan-Ganz is your friend and foe.","authors":"Neeraj Shah, Fouad Jabbour, Michael Akinyemi","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Totally percutaneous transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement via synthetic vascular grafts: a single-center case series.","authors":"Hussein Sliman, Amnon Eitan, Hashem Hayeq, Avinoam Shiran, Keren Zissman, Ronen Jaffe","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Transfemoral (TF) vascular access is the preferred route for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with severe aortic stenosis; however, patients with prior peripheral vascular surgery are often treated via alternative, more invasive access sites. The authors aimed to assess the feasibility of valve delivery via synthetic vascular grafts in patients with aortobifemoral bypass surgery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors report 3 consecutive patients with peripheral vascular disease and a history of aortobifemoral bypass graft surgery who underwent TF-TAVR via direct puncture of the synthetic vascular grafts. Preprocedural computed tomography angiography (CTA) guided access site selection and vascular closure strategy in all cases.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Prophylactic 0.014-inch safety wires were delivered to the primary access sites via a secondary access site in order to facilitate hemostasis and enable percutaneous vascular repair if necessary. Self-expanding and balloon-expandable valves were successfully delivered via synthetic grafts in all 3 procedures. A prophylactic occlusive balloon was inflated within the abdominal aorta in 1 case in order to prevent potential hemorrhage during sheath removal. Successful hemostasis was achieved in all patients, using a plug-based vascular closure device (VCD) in 1 patient and combined suture-mediated VCDs and plug-based closure devices in 2 patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Percutaneous TF-TAVR with valve delivery via synthetic vascular grafts appears feasible in select patients. VCDs achieved access site hemostasis in all cases. Procedural planning based on CTA appears essential for selecting the optimal vascular access strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impella entrapment in the mitral subvalvular apparatus in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy: snare-assisted retrieval.","authors":"Tomoki Nakatsu, Ryota Usui, Masahiko Narita, Hana Fukuta, Yuya Tamaru, Yusuke Okazaki","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaïs Ouerghi, Victor Mateus, Tahar Lazizi, Loïc Bière
{"title":"Ablation of the ablator: accidental guide catheter machining by a 1.75-mm burr in a 6F Amplatz guide.","authors":"Kaïs Ouerghi, Victor Mateus, Tahar Lazizi, Loïc Bière","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00032","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/26.00032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146126606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafey Feroze, Marco Frazzetto, Luis Augusto Palma Dallan, Mohammed Alghammass, Yusef Saeed, Maedeh Z Nikoo, Alexander Cove, Nawaf Alhabdan, Abdullah Altorbag, Andreas A Towers, Steven J Filby
{"title":"Imaging insights into endothelial response: cardiac computed tomography assessment of WATCHMAN FLX and FLX Pro.","authors":"Rafey Feroze, Marco Frazzetto, Luis Augusto Palma Dallan, Mohammed Alghammass, Yusef Saeed, Maedeh Z Nikoo, Alexander Cove, Nawaf Alhabdan, Abdullah Altorbag, Andreas A Towers, Steven J Filby","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00003","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/26.00003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric J Kim, Yash Prakash, Hassan Beesley, Grigory Manyak, Mihir Prakash, Lakshay Chopra, Akarsh Sharma, Carlo Mannina, George D Dangas, Lucy M Safi, Sahil Khera, Samin K Sharma, Annapoorna S Kini, Gilbert H L Tang, Stamatios Lerakis
{"title":"Differential effect of chronic kidney disease on right-sided extravalvular damage in low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis.","authors":"Eric J Kim, Yash Prakash, Hassan Beesley, Grigory Manyak, Mihir Prakash, Lakshay Chopra, Akarsh Sharma, Carlo Mannina, George D Dangas, Lucy M Safi, Sahil Khera, Samin K Sharma, Annapoorna S Kini, Gilbert H L Tang, Stamatios Lerakis","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00078","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/26.00078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>In the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) era, the presence of low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis (LFLG AS) itself does not preclude intervention. However, chronic kidney disease (CKD) and right-sided extravalvular damage (RSED) complicate procedural risk assessment. Both their association with each other and their joint impact on post-TAVR mortality in LFLG AS and across its subtypes remain incompletely characterized.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors performed a retrospective study of patients with LFLG AS who underwent TAVR between 2019 and 2022, stratified by CKD stage (from no CKD to end-stage renal disease [ESRD]) and LFLG AS subtype (classical vs paradoxical). RSED was defined by greater than or equal to moderate pulmonary hypertension, greater than or equal to moderate tricuspid regurgitation, or right ventricular (RV) systolic dysfunction. Poisson regression models assessed associations between CKD stage and RSED, while multivariable Cox regression models and Wald tests compared mortality across cohorts.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 402 patients (137 classical, 265 paradoxical), ESRD was independently associated with RSED and RV dysfunction, whereas earlier CKD stages were not. ESRD was associated with increased RV dysfunction in paradoxical LFLG AS but not in classical LFLG AS. Advanced CKD and RSED were each associated with increased post-TAVR mortality. In paradoxical LFLG AS, combined RSED and advanced CKD were associated with significantly higher mortality than either condition alone. This effect was not observed in classical LFLG AS patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Advanced renal dysfunction is associated with RSED in LFLG AS. In paradoxical LFLG AS, their combination has a possibly multiplicative association with mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148057852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Novelli, Jorge Sanz-Sanchez, Lea Usaj, Gabriele Luigi Gasparini
{"title":"Block the bleed: management of coronary perforation using a single 7F guide catheter.","authors":"Laura Novelli, Jorge Sanz-Sanchez, Lea Usaj, Gabriele Luigi Gasparini","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00088","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/26.00088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eileen Galvani, Oludamilola Akinmolayemi, Srivatsan Swaminathan, Carlo Mannina, Sahil Khera, Lucy M Safi, Gilbert H L Tang, Samin K Sharma, Annapoorna S Kini, Stamatios Lerakis
{"title":"Clinical outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement by sex and subtype of low-flow aortic stenosis.","authors":"Eileen Galvani, Oludamilola Akinmolayemi, Srivatsan Swaminathan, Carlo Mannina, Sahil Khera, Lucy M Safi, Gilbert H L Tang, Samin K Sharma, Annapoorna S Kini, Stamatios Lerakis","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00096","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/26.00096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Prior studies suggest sex differences in clinical outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). The authors hypothesized that among patients with low-flow aortic stenosis (LFAS), outcomes differ based on sex and subtype of LFAS: classical (cLFLG), paradoxical (pLFLG), and high gradient (LFHG).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This single-center, observational, longitudinal cohort study included adults with LFAS who underwent TAVR. Differences in clinical outcomes (all-cause mortality, heart failure hospitalization [HFH], and myocardial infarction [MI]) by subtype of LFAS within each sex were examined via Kaplan Meier curves. Log rank P-values were reported.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 599 patients with LFAS were followed for 12 months after TAVR. Of the male patients (n = 373), 25.2% had LFHG, 32.7% cLFLG, and 42.1% pLFLG AS. Of females (n = 226), 26.1% had LFHG, 13.3% cLFLG, and 60.6% pLFLG AS. Event rates in males were 13.1% all-cause mortality, 6.2% HFH, and 0.8% MI. Event rates in females included 6.6% all-cause mortality, 8.0% HFH, and 0 MI. In males, the LFHG vs cLFLG vs pLFLG subtypes demonstrated significant differences in time to all-cause mortality (P < .001), HFH (P = .014), and MI (P = .045).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this cohort, clinical outcomes in males significantly differed by subtype of LFAS, whereas these differences were not found in females.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}