{"title":"Right coronary artery takeoff plane and implications for brachiocephalic interventions and next generation transcatheter aortic valve intervention embolic protection devices.","authors":"Umair Bajwa, Mohammad Chaudhry, Danielle Retcho, Sohira Idrees, Lukasz Partyka, Rajiv Tayal, Arash Salemi, Sergio Waxman, Najam Wasty","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00140","DOIUrl":"10.25270/jic/25.00140","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The authors hypothesized that the origin of the right coronary artery (RCA) is a direct continuation of the major aortic arch branches (MAAB) takeoff plane, which may have implications for brachiocephalic interventions and next generation transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI) embolic protection devices (EPDs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this single-center, retrospective, cross-sectional study, the authors analyzed computed tomographic angiography (CTA) images from 92 patients undergoing TAVI evaluation to determine the spatial relationship between the origin of the RCA and the MAAB takeoff plane. Patients with prior cardiothoracic or aortic interventions and those with anomalous RCA origin were excluded. Using double oblique imaging planes, the authors assessed whether the RCA and MAAB takeoffs were visualized within the same sagittal plane.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age of the patients was 76.4 years; 52% were female. Most patients had hypertension (90%), coronary artery disease (65%), or a history of smoking (47%). The RCA origin aligned with the forward and downward continuation of the MAAB plane in 77.1% of the patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This novel anatomical relationship, not previously described in literature, may be clinically useful during cardiac catheterization when cannulating brachiocephalic vessels to visualize right and left internal mammary arteries and during brachiocephalic interventions such as subclavian and carotid stenting. Additionally, the findings suggest that some third generation TAVI EPDs with anchoring probes resting in the aortic root may lie in close proximity to the RCA ostium. This proximity could hinder urgent RCA cannulation during TAVI procedures. As new EPD designs gain traction globally, it is essential for TAVI operators to understand this anatomical nuance.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034519","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}
Valentina Balint, Mihajlo Farkic, Jovan Petrovic, Matija Furtula, Milos D Babic, Dragan Topic, Ida Subotic, Vladimir Zobenica, Alfonso Ielasi, Luca Testa, Milovan Bojic, Aleksandra Nikolic
{"title":"Early outcomes of the Myval Octacor transcatheter heart valve in transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a single-center study from Serbia.","authors":"Valentina Balint, Mihajlo Farkic, Jovan Petrovic, Matija Furtula, Milos D Babic, Dragan Topic, Ida Subotic, Vladimir Zobenica, Alfonso Ielasi, Luca Testa, Milovan Bojic, Aleksandra Nikolic","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular heart disease, with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) now preferred for select severe cases. This study evaluated the early safety and performance of the new Myval Octacor Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) (Meril Life Sciences), for which limited clinical data exist.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors retrospectively analyzed 43 consecutive patients with severe AS who underwent TAVI using the Myval Octacor THV at a tertiary cardiac center. Primary outcomes included all-cause mortality, stroke, major vascular complications, conduction abnormalities, new pacemaker implantation, paravalvular leak, and valve failure at 30 days follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The median age was 81 years (IQR: 7), and 22 patients (51.2%) were female. Coronary artery disease was present in 24 (55.8%). Technical success rate was 100%. Mean pressure gradient decreased significantly post-procedure (55 mm Hg [IQR: 24] vs 5 mm Hg [IQR: 2]; P ≤ .001). No in-hospital deaths occurred. Two patients (4.7%) received permanent pacemakers during hospitalization, and 3 (7.0%) required pacemakers within a week because of conduction issues. Two patients (4.7%) experienced Bleeding Academic Research Consortium Type 3a bleeding. At 30 days, 42 patients remained in follow-up (98%), with 55% improved to New York Heart Association Class I. No vascular complications, stroke, acute kidney injury, valve thrombosis, or endocarditis occurred. One patient had valve failure from a significant paravalvular leak and 1 noncardiac death occurred 2 weeks post-discharge.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Early outcomes suggest that the Myval Octacor THV is a safe and effective option for TAVI in severe AS; however, larger studies with longer follow-up are required.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146094655","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}
Jeong Hwan J Kim, Leili Pourafkari, Jonathan Lalezari, Ali Sovari
{"title":"Right internal jugular pulsed field ablation for atrial fibrillation in a patient with an inferior vena cava filter.","authors":"Jeong Hwan J Kim, Leili Pourafkari, Jonathan Lalezari, Ali Sovari","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146094721","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}
Nicolas Bradt, Maxim Verlee, Christophe Borin, Hans Vandekerckhove, Laurens De Vos
{"title":"Septal coronary artery fistula after implantation of a left bundle branch area pacemaker.","authors":"Nicolas Bradt, Maxim Verlee, Christophe Borin, Hans Vandekerckhove, Laurens De Vos","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146094732","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":"Mechanical reperfusion of subocclusive plaque erosion: 30-month outcome of an optical coherence tomography-guided stentless strategy.","authors":"Kaïs Ouerghi, Tahar Lazizi, Victor Mateus","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146068161","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}
Konstantinos Filippou, Konstantinos Manousopoulos, Panagiotis Varelas, Dimitrios Karelas, Ioannis Kouloulias, Alexandros Zaraggas, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Ioannis Nenekidis, Ioannis Tsiafoutis
{"title":"A challenging case of left main chronic total occlusion and the reverse T-stenting and small protrusion (TAP) technique: success with the investment strategy.","authors":"Konstantinos Filippou, Konstantinos Manousopoulos, Panagiotis Varelas, Dimitrios Karelas, Ioannis Kouloulias, Alexandros Zaraggas, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Ioannis Nenekidis, Ioannis Tsiafoutis","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146068101","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}
Giuseppe Colletti, Gregory A Sgueglia, Adrien Jossart, Caroline Lepièce, Olivier Gach, Alexandre Natalis, Laura Peter, Silviu Dumitrascu, Claudiu Ungureanu
{"title":"SWITCHing to Distal RaiL: a tracking technique for rotational atherectomy procedures-short-term outcomes and impact on clinical practice (the SWITCH D-RIL registry).","authors":"Giuseppe Colletti, Gregory A Sgueglia, Adrien Jossart, Caroline Lepièce, Olivier Gach, Alexandre Natalis, Laura Peter, Silviu Dumitrascu, Claudiu Ungureanu","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00355","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Despite the preference for transradial access (TRA) in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), many operators still use large-bore guiding catheters through the transfemoral approach (TFA), especially in complex cases. This study evaluated the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of the Distal RailTracking (DRT) technique, a sheathless approach via distal radial access (DRA), and investigated its impact on clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The multicenter SWITCH D-RIL study enrolled patients who required treatment of severely calcified coronary disease by rotational atherectomy, and compared those who underwent PCI before (pre-DRT, n = 97) and after (post-DRT, n = 99) DRT was adopted as the primary approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Procedural success rates without access site crossover were similar between groups. No significant differences were found in periprocedural complications, in-hospital and 30-day major adverse cardiovascular events, and access- and non-access-related major bleedings. The post-DRT group exhibited a significantly higher use of large-bore guiding catheters (97.1% vs 31.7%). Overall, DRA was used in 90.5% of cases in the post-DRT group, with TFA accounting for 9.5%; the pre-DRT group primarily employed conventional TRA (82.2%), with the remaining cases involving TFA and 1 transbrachial access. The post-DRT group demonstrated increased usage of burrs larger than 1.5 mm (51.4% vs 13.9%) and additional calcium modifying tools (42.9% vs 24.8%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The DRT technique demonstrated feasibility, safety, and efficacy in treating severely calcified coronary disease. This study highlights the reliability of DRA, even when large bore guiding catheters are necessary, emphasizing its potential to provide a safer approach while ensuring radial artery preservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146068174","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}
Mireia Martínez, Paula Vela, Juan Casanova-Sandoval, Kristian Rivera
{"title":"Intravascular ultrasound-guided management of early stent thrombosis secondary to coronary intramural hematoma.","authors":"Mireia Martínez, Paula Vela, Juan Casanova-Sandoval, Kristian Rivera","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146068110","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}
Miguel A Martín-Arena, Joaquín Vila-García, Clara Ugueto-Rodrigo, Cristina Contreras-Lorenzo, Ricardo Martínez-González, Carmen Labarta-Bello, Guadalupe Buitrago Weiland, Sandra Rosillo-Rodríguez, Santiago Jiménez-Valero, Raúl Moreno
{"title":"Very late thrombosis of a hemi-Cabrol coronary graft: a rare cause of cardiogenic shock.","authors":"Miguel A Martín-Arena, Joaquín Vila-García, Clara Ugueto-Rodrigo, Cristina Contreras-Lorenzo, Ricardo Martínez-González, Carmen Labarta-Bello, Guadalupe Buitrago Weiland, Sandra Rosillo-Rodríguez, Santiago Jiménez-Valero, Raúl Moreno","doi":"10.25270/jic/25.00390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/25.00390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145985529","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}
Alexander G Truesdell, Megan Terek, Ramesh Singh, Michelle Ferri, Shashank S Sinha
{"title":"\"War on shock\" redux: a decade of progress, promise, and potential.","authors":"Alexander G Truesdell, Megan Terek, Ramesh Singh, Michelle Ferri, Shashank S Sinha","doi":"10.25270/jic/26.00001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25270/jic/26.00001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49261,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Invasive Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145917512","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}