Faaiq N Aslam, Kevin Tayon, Jeanwoo Yoo, Abdallah El Sabbagh, Danesh Kella, Christoffel J van Niekerk
{"title":"Percutaneous mechanical aspiration prior to transvenous lead extraction and implantable cardioverter defibrillator removal in infective endocarditis.","authors":"Faaiq N Aslam, Kevin Tayon, Jeanwoo Yoo, Abdallah El Sabbagh, Danesh Kella, Christoffel J van Niekerk","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800731","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":"Routine coronary procedures via distal transradial access in male versus female patients: insights from the DISTRACTION registry.","authors":"Marcos Danillo Oliveira, Adriano Caixeta","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00130","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have highlighted the benefits of distal over proximal transradial access, including lower rates of radial artery occlusion and faster hemostasis. Despite the increasing adoption of distal transradial access by interventionalists, there is a lack of data addressing gender-specific differences. This study aimed to assess those differences in routine coronary procedures via distal transradial access.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of a large, real-world sample of 6871 consecutive all-comers who underwent coronary procedures via distal transradial access using data from the DISTRACTION registry.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean patient ages were 63.8 ± 15.7 years, 63.5 ± 17.7, and 64.4 ± 11.1 years for total, male, and female groups, respectively; 65% of the patients were male. In the female group, there was statistically significant predominance of hypertension (82.2% vs 74%), diabetes (46.8% vs 37%), obesity (29.3% vs 22.2%), severe mitral valve disease (3.1% vs 1.1%), coronary angiography-only (48.7% vs 36%), and access-site crossovers (3.1% vs 1.5%). In the male group, there were more rates of former or current smoking (54.2% vs 40.8%), previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (29.8% vs 19.7%), previous coronary artery bypass grafting (4.5% vs 1.9%), ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (24.2% vs 18.5%), PCI (66.1% vs 52.5%), left main PCI (2.6% vs 1.7%), redo right distal transradial access (15.3% vs 9.9%), and 7F sheath size (2.6% vs 0.9%). No major adverse cerebrovascular and cardiac events directly related to distal transradial access, no hand/thumb dysfunction or ischemia after any procedure, and no relevant access-site-related bleeding were recorded.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The adoption of distal transradial access by proficient operators as the default approach for routine coronary procedures appears to be safe and feasible in both male and female patients, with very low rates of access site crossovers and complications.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800732","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":"Non-invasive imaging-guided transcatheter closure of aorto-right atrial shunt in a young man.","authors":"Jie Wang, Ping Hu, Ya-Feng He, Xiao-Jing Ma","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800727","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":"Ventricularization of the right atrial pressure.","authors":"Neha Chopra, Shitij Chaudhary, Sourabh Agstam, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800736","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}
Stavros E Mountantonakis, Elad Anter, Jerry Marschke, Waruiru Mburu, Reece Holbrook, Hae W Lim, Tyler L Taigen
{"title":"Electrophysiology lab efficiency simulation: a comparison between novel dual-energy lattice-tip and conventional contact-force sensing radiofrequency ablation systems.","authors":"Stavros E Mountantonakis, Elad Anter, Jerry Marschke, Waruiru Mburu, Reece Holbrook, Hae W Lim, Tyler L Taigen","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Increasing atrial fibrillation (AF) disease-related healthcare burden, coupled with positive evidence on catheter ablation for AF, has led to pressure on hospital procedure efficiency. Medtronic's Sphere-9 system (a novel lattice-tip dual-energy pulsed field and radiofrequency [RF] ablation catheter) demonstrated non-inferiority in effectiveness and superiority in procedural times compared with a contact-force sensing RF catheter (ThermoCool SmartTouch SF [STSF]). This analysis evaluated the impact of procedural efficiencies on electrophysiology (EP) lab utilization.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A discrete event simulation model evaluated EP lab efficiency using procedure times from the SPHERE Per-AF trial for pulmonary vein isolation-only cases and those with additional ablation lesion sets. Lab day ran from 7 am to 7 pm with 1 hour needed to perform an additional non-ablation EP case, and same-day discharge was allowed for cases ending by 5 pm.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analysis included 211 patients in the Sphere-9 arm and 207 in the STSF arm. Procedure times were 100.8 ± 31 minutes for Sphere-9 and 125.9 ± 49 for STSF. Sphere-9 resulted in more than a 10-fold reduction in cumulative overtime hours (41 hours for Sphere-9 vs 424 for STSF). Overtime occurred on 7% of lab days with Sphere-9 and 36% with STSF. Additionally, 73% of Sphere-9 lab days allowed for 1 additional non-ablation EP case compared with 40% of STSF lab days. Finally, 38% of Sphere-9 lab days allowed for same-day discharge for the third case compared with 17% of STSF lab days.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In patients with persistent AF, the Sphere-9 system was more efficient and predictable compared with STSF, leading to significant improvements in EP lab efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800724","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}
Kwong-Yue Eric Chan, Daniel Tai-Leung Chan, Simon Cheung-Chi Lam, Michael Shu-Yue Sze, Ka-Chun Un, Yui-Ming Lam, Ricky Wang-Hei Leung, Jamilla Li, Helen Wong, Harinder Gill, Chun-Ka Wong
{"title":"Transient hemolysis following transcatheter mitral valve replacement with a simplified BATMAN technique.","authors":"Kwong-Yue Eric Chan, Daniel Tai-Leung Chan, Simon Cheung-Chi Lam, Michael Shu-Yue Sze, Ka-Chun Un, Yui-Ming Lam, Ricky Wang-Hei Leung, Jamilla Li, Helen Wong, Harinder Gill, Chun-Ka Wong","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00037","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/25.00037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494319","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":"10.25270/jic/25.00029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","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}
{"title":"Enhancing productivity: how AI chatbots can benefit cardiologists.","authors":"Michaella Alexandrou, Dimitrios Strepkos, Arun Mahtani, Yader Sandoval, Emmanouil S Brilakis","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00052","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/25.00052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736255","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":"Correction to: mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair with PASCAL vs MitraClip: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"","doi":"10.25270/jic/23.00218.cx","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/23.00218.cx","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This corrects the article doi: 10.25270/jic/23.00218.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":"37 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144795916","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}