AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2026-03-19eCollection Date: 2026-03-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00094
Luís Felipe Duarte Coutinho, Erika Correa Vrandecic
{"title":"Letter: The AHEAD score in acute myocardial infarction: a call for more rigorous validation.","authors":"Luís Felipe Duarte Coutinho, Erika Correa Vrandecic","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00094","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"12 1","pages":"68-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12987390/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2026-03-19eCollection Date: 2026-03-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00044
Cheuk Bong Ho, Calvin Leung, Michael Chi Shing Chiang, Alan Ka Chun Chan, Kam Tim Chan, Michael Kang Yin Lee
{"title":"Real-time IVUS-guided wiring in spontaneous coronary artery dissection.","authors":"Cheuk Bong Ho, Calvin Leung, Michael Chi Shing Chiang, Alan Ka Chun Chan, Kam Tim Chan, Michael Kang Yin Lee","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00044","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"12 1","pages":"66-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12987395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2025-10-10eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00028
Andreas Y Andreou
{"title":"Ultralow-contrast aorto-ostial percutaneous coronary intervention under live intravascular ultrasound guidance.","authors":"Andreas Y Andreou","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00028","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"11 3","pages":"210-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12494081/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2025-10-10eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-E-25-00005
Ramesh Daggubati, Abhishek Chaturvedi
{"title":"Hydra valve with active release mechanism: GENESIS of a new contender in TAVI space.","authors":"Ramesh Daggubati, Abhishek Chaturvedi","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-E-25-00005","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-E-25-00005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"11 3","pages":"151-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12494078/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accuracy in adversity: double-stitch injury during balloon mitral valvotomy managed with device closure followed by interval balloon mitral valvotomy in an antenatal care patient at 7 months of gestational age.","authors":"Kalyan Munde, Hariom Kolapkar, Anant Munde, Akshat Jain, Mohan Paliwal, Anagh T Shetru, Jayakrishna Niari","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-D-24-00032","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-D-24-00032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"11 3","pages":"205-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12494083/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2025-10-10eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00021
Shao-Liang Chen, Jing Kan, Teguh Santoso, Tak W Kwan, Imad Sheiban, Tanveer S Rab, Muhammad Munawar, Wei-Hsian Yin, Fei Ye, Lianglong Chen, Junjie Zhang, Kwan Seung Lee, On Behalf Of The Provisional Stenting Versus Systematic Two-Stent Dkcrush X Collaborator Group
{"title":"Double-kissing crush versus provisional stenting in patients with true coronary artery bifurcation lesions: a pooled individual patient-level analysis of randomised trials (DKCRUSH X trial).","authors":"Shao-Liang Chen, Jing Kan, Teguh Santoso, Tak W Kwan, Imad Sheiban, Tanveer S Rab, Muhammad Munawar, Wei-Hsian Yin, Fei Ye, Lianglong Chen, Junjie Zhang, Kwan Seung Lee, On Behalf Of The Provisional Stenting Versus Systematic Two-Stent Dkcrush X Collaborator Group","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00021","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Provisional stenting is the standard treatment for patients with coronary artery bifurcation lesions.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This pooled individual patient data (IPD) analysis aims to evaluate the long-term (six-year) outcomes of provisional stenting versus upfront two-stent techniques in patients with true coronary bifurcation lesions treated with drug-eluting stents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic review and IPD analysis of randomised trials with centrally adjudicated endpoints was conducted to assess the efficacy and safety of provisional stenting versus upfront two-stent approaches in patients with true coronary bifurcation lesions undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents. All patients were prospectively followed, with their intervention having been completed at least six years earlier. The primary endpoint, re-evaluated by an independent clinical event committee, was target lesion failure (TLF) - a composite of cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction, or clinically driven target lesion revascularisation - assessed at the final follow-up on 8 November 2024.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 6,225 citations were screened, and four randomised trials met the inclusion criteria. Among 1,573 patients in the intention-to-treat population, TLF at six years occurred in 144 patients (Kaplan-Meier estimate 18.2%) in the upfront two-stent group and 193 (Kaplan-Meier estimate 24.7%) in the provisional stenting group (hazard ratio [HR] 0.71, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.57-0.89; p=0.0022, τ²=0.00, I<sup>2</sup>=0%). These results were consistent across both unadjusted and per-protocol analyses. In patients with complex coronary bifurcation lesions, TLF occurred in 88 patients (Kaplan-Meier estimate 19.6%) in the two-stent group and 115 (Kaplan-Meier estimate 27.6%) in the provisional stenting group (HR 0.68, 95% CI: 0.52-0.90; p=0.0066).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This IPD analysis provides robust long-term evidence that upfront two-stent techniques, particularly double-kissing crush stenting, significantly reduce TLF over a six-year follow-up period compared with provisional stenting, especially in patients with complex bifurcations.</p>","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"11 3","pages":"178-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12494082/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2025-10-10eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-E-25-00006
Arsalan Abu-Much, Ajay J Kirtane
{"title":"Fine-tuning the arc of orbital atherectomy: navigating eccentric calcium in tortuous vessels.","authors":"Arsalan Abu-Much, Ajay J Kirtane","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-E-25-00006","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-E-25-00006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"11 3","pages":"153-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12494073/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AsiaInterventionPub Date : 2025-10-10eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00006
Mohammad Reza Movahed, Allistair Nathan, Mehrtash Hashemzadeh
{"title":"The obesity paradox revisited - influence on the results of percutaneous coronary interventions.","authors":"Mohammad Reza Movahed, Allistair Nathan, Mehrtash Hashemzadeh","doi":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00006","DOIUrl":"10.4244/AIJ-D-25-00006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The \"obesity paradox\" has been seen in patients with cardiovascular disease. However, the role of the obesity paradox in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is controversial.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>Our study aims to investigate the effect of weight categories on mortality in patients undergoing PCI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The National Inpatient Sample database for the years 2016-2020 was analysed using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes in adult patients >18 years of age. Patients undergoing PCI were identified and stratified using weight categories. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 10,069,454 patients who had undergone PCI. Compared to patients in the normal-weight category, cachectic patients had the highest mortality at 9.78% (odds ratio [OR] 3.88, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.65-4.12; p<0.001). Mortality was lowest in overweight patients at 1.28% (OR 0.46, 95% CI: 0.39-0.55; p<0.001), followed by obese patients at 1.61% (OR 0.58, 95% CI: 0.56-0.61; p<0.001). In the morbidly obese category, this protective effect was much less, with mortality being measured at 2.05% (OR 0.75, 95% CI: 0.42-0.78; p<0.001; vs 2.72% in the normal-weight category). After multivariate analysis, mortality remained high in cachectic patients (OR 3.65, 95% CI: 3.42-3.90; p<0.001) and remained low in overweight (OR 0.51, 95% CI: 0.43-0.61; p<0.001) and obese (OR 0.68, 95% CI: 0.66-0.71; p<0.001) patients, but the protective value of weight almost disappeared in the morbidly obese category (OR 0.96, 95% CI: 0.96-1.00; p=0.04).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The obesity paradox held only partially, with the lowest mortality in the overweight category, followed by patients with obesity, then an almost complete loss of protection in those with morbid obesity, and the highest mortality in cachectic patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":72310,"journal":{"name":"AsiaIntervention","volume":"11 3","pages":"199-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12494072/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}