Atul D Bali, Sadrine Lebrun, Abduljabar Adi, Varinder Singh, Michael C Kim, Arber Kodra
{"title":"Intravascular brachytherapy for the management of drug-eluting in-stent restenosis.","authors":"Atul D Bali, Sadrine Lebrun, Abduljabar Adi, Varinder Singh, Michael C Kim, Arber Kodra","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/24.00341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study aimed to evaluate the utilization and clinical outcomes of coronary intravascular brachytherapy (IVBT) as a treatment modality for multilayer in-stent restenosis (ISR).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This multicenter study retrospectively analyzed 101 patients who presented for percutaneous intervention of recurrent drug-eluting stent ISR using IVBT from 2019 to 2023. The primary outcome assessed was target lesion revascularization (TLR) at 1 year. Secondary endpoints were aimed to establish procedural safety. All lesions had evaluation by either angiography, intravascular ultrasound, or both.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The majority of ISR was related to neointimal hyperplasia (61.4%), with stent underexpansion (11.9%) being the second most common cause. The average layer of stents in the sample was 1.90 layers. Prior to delivery of IVBT, lesions were prepared with balloon angioplasty, laser atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy, or a combination of pretreatment strategies. The average time of the IVBT dwell period was 11 minutes, with an average dose of 21.76 Gy. Of the 101 patients evaluated, TLR occurred in 10.9% of patients at 1 year. Readmission at 30 days was 4.9% and vascular complications occurred in 3.9% of the patients. Major adverse cardiac events were limited to 0.9% of the patients, and no peri-procedural myocardial infarctions, urgent need for revascularization within 24 hours, need for mechanical support, nor cardiac arrest were observed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this study, IVBT proved to be a safe and effective treatment modality for multilayer ISR. The study generates the hypothesis for the routine use of IVBT in this commonly encountered clinical scenario. Larger and prospective randomized studies are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574351","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":"Percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion in patients with prior coronary artery bypass graft: the current situation.","authors":"Soichiro Ebisawa, Etsuo Tsuchikane, Koichi Kishi, Yoshiaki Ito, Hisayuki Okada, Satoru Sumitsuji, Yuji Oikawa, Ryohei Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/24.00301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The equipment and strategies used for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusion (CTO) have been improved. However, CTO-PCI for patients with prior coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) remains challenging. This study aimed to compare the strategies and initial success rates of CTO-PCI in patients with and without prior CABG.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors extracted data from the Japanese CTO-PCI expert registry for this study. They enrolled 11 605 patients who underwent CTO-PCI by Japanese operators from 2014 to 2022. The cohort was divided into 2 groups: post-CABG (n = 830) and no-CABG patients (n = 10775).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The post-CABG patients were older than the no-CABG patients (70.3 ± 9.2 vs 67.5 ± 11.1 years, P less than .01). The post-CABG group exhibited more prevalent long, tortuous, and calcified lesions, as well as higher Japanese Multicenter CTO Registry scores than the no-CABG group (1.8 ± 1.1 vs 1.4 ± 1.1, P less than .01). The post-CABG patients opted for the primary and rescue retrograde approaches more frequently than the no-CABG patients (52.4% vs 40.7%, P less than .02), and the post-CABG patients exhibited a lower success rate than the no-CABG patients (82.2% vs 90.2%, P less than .01). However, an improvement in success rates was observed in the post-CABG patients compared with that of Japanese data from 1999 to 2011 (71%-82.2%). Additionally, the procedure time decreased from 210 to 191 minutes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Compared with no-CABG patients, the initial success rate of CTO-PCI for post-CABG patients remains low, and the retrograde approach is more commonly chosen. However, the success rate has improved over previous data.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574352","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}
Jason H Anderson, Gareth J Morgan, Jenny E Zablah, Allison K Cabalka
{"title":"Alterra and SAPIEN frame over-expansion for repeated valve-in-valve therapy.","authors":"Jason H Anderson, Gareth J Morgan, Jenny E Zablah, Allison K Cabalka","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574348","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}
Aparna Kuchibhatla, Nazanin Soghrati, Yazan Saleh, Greggory Rushing, Mohamed Abdel Halim, Marc Pelletier, Cristian Baeza, Mohammad El-Diasty
{"title":"Transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement in pregnant women? A comprehensive review of the current literature.","authors":"Aparna Kuchibhatla, Nazanin Soghrati, Yazan Saleh, Greggory Rushing, Mohamed Abdel Halim, Marc Pelletier, Cristian Baeza, Mohammad El-Diasty","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00065","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511382","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}
Raza Yunus, Talal Alzahrani, Roy Taoutel, Jonathan Reiner, Ramesh Mazhari, Farzad Najam, Gregory Trachiotis, Joseph Krepp, Andrew Choi, Shawn Sarin, Christian Nagy
{"title":"Comparison of two vascular closure device strategies for transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement using suture-based and collagen-plug-based techniques and associated vascular complications.","authors":"Raza Yunus, Talal Alzahrani, Roy Taoutel, Jonathan Reiner, Ramesh Mazhari, Farzad Najam, Gregory Trachiotis, Joseph Krepp, Andrew Choi, Shawn Sarin, Christian Nagy","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00251","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00251","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511377","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}
Manasa Dondapati, Chad Gier, Daniel Ohngemach, Smadar Kort, On Chen, Puja B Parikh
{"title":"Percutaneous closure of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation and concomitant patent foramen ovale for cryptogenic stroke.","authors":"Manasa Dondapati, Chad Gier, Daniel Ohngemach, Smadar Kort, On Chen, Puja B Parikh","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00268","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584604","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}
Liwei Yu, Allison K Cabalka, Nathaniel W Taggart, Donald J Hagler, Frank Cetta, Kaitlyn Krebushevski, Trevor J Simard, Alan M Sugrue, Alexander C Egbe, Jason H Anderson
{"title":"Utility of balloon-expandable covered stent graft endoprosthesis in congenital heart disease.","authors":"Liwei Yu, Allison K Cabalka, Nathaniel W Taggart, Donald J Hagler, Frank Cetta, Kaitlyn Krebushevski, Trevor J Simard, Alan M Sugrue, Alexander C Egbe, Jason H Anderson","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00275","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142607022","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}
Bahadir Simsek, Bavana V Rangan, Yousif Ahmad, Lorenzo Azzalini, Rhian E Davies, Jennifer Frampton, Jaikirshan Khatri, Ajay J Kirtane, Alexandra J Lansky, William L Lombardi, Yader Sandoval, Andrew J Sauer, Jeffrey Wilson, Emmanouil S Brilakis
{"title":"Heartbeats and bank statements: a survey of the financial pulse of cardiologists.","authors":"Bahadir Simsek, Bavana V Rangan, Yousif Ahmad, Lorenzo Azzalini, Rhian E Davies, Jennifer Frampton, Jaikirshan Khatri, Ajay J Kirtane, Alexandra J Lansky, William L Lombardi, Yader Sandoval, Andrew J Sauer, Jeffrey Wilson, Emmanouil S Brilakis","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00292","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511379","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}
Kun Wang, Hao-Nan Liu, Xiao-Mei Gao, Xiao-Fei Jiang
{"title":"Transcatheter intervention treatment of a secondary septal pouch and patent foramen ovale with an atrial septal defect occluder.","authors":"Kun Wang, Hao-Nan Liu, Xiao-Mei Gao, Xiao-Fei Jiang","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00278","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511381","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}
Oscar Lagos, Frank Coras, Ana Blanca Paloma, Santiago Camacho Freire, Jessica Roa, Antonio Gomez Menchero
{"title":"Coronary stent and balloon entrapment following delivery device perforation.","authors":"Oscar Lagos, Frank Coras, Ana Blanca Paloma, Santiago Camacho Freire, Jessica Roa, Antonio Gomez Menchero","doi":"10.25270/jic/24.00252","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/24.00252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584602","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}