{"title":"Feasibility of combined therapy: percutaneous left atrial appendage closure and transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.","authors":"Nobuyuki Fukuda, Teruhiko Imamura, Shuhei Tanaka, Naoya Kataoka, Ryuichi Ushijima, Hiroshi Ueno, Koichiro Kinugawa","doi":"10.1007/s12928-024-01065-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-024-01065-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) often present with concomitant significant mitral regurgitation (MR). Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) is indicated for patients with AF to prevent thromboembolism and reduce the need for long-term anticoagulation. Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) is recommended for patients with significant MR. However, the feasibility and efficacy of combining these therapeutic interventions remain uncertain. This study included consecutive patients who underwent LAAC. Feasibility was assessed by comparing outcomes between those undergoing combined LAAC + TEER and those receiving LAAC alone. Among 192 patients, 11 underwent the combined LAAC + TEER procedure, while 181 underwent LAAC alone. Procedural success was high in both groups (100% vs. 99%). At the 1-year follow-up, the incidence of significant device leak and device-related thrombus did not differ significantly between the groups (0% vs. 1.1% and 0% vs. 6.7%, respectively; p > 0.05 for both). Additionally, the cumulative incidence of thromboembolic and bleeding events was comparable between the two groups (thromboembolic p = 0.57 and bleeding p = 0.42). The combination of LAAC + TEER may be a feasible and effective therapeutic strategy when performed in carefully selected patients at high-volume, experienced centers.</p>","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":" ","pages":"400-413"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142738519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection and nanagement of stent under-expansion in self-expanding TAVR using a steep right anterior oblique view.","authors":"Umihiko Kaneko, Daisuke Hachinohe, Ryo Horita, Ryo Otake, Kazuki Mizutani, Ken Kobayashi","doi":"10.1007/s12928-024-01078-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-024-01078-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":" ","pages":"438-440"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142853034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CVIT 2025 clinical expert consensus document on intravascular ultrasound.","authors":"Yuichi Saito, Yoshio Kobayashi, Kenichi Fujii, Shinjo Sonoda, Kenichi Tsujita, Kiyoshi Hibi, Yoshihiro Morino, Hiroyuki Okura, Yuji Ikari, Ken Kozuma, Junko Honye","doi":"10.1007/s12928-025-01090-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-025-01090-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) provides precise anatomic information in coronary arteries including quantitative measurements and morphological assessment. To standardize the IVUS analysis in the current era, this updated expert consensus document summarizes the methods of measurements and assessment of IVUS images and the clinical evidence of IVUS use in percutaneous coronary intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":" ","pages":"211-225"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11910423/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051740","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":"Early clinical outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the NAVITOR system.","authors":"Kosuke Fujita, Koichiro Matsumura, Keishiro Sugimoto, Kyohei Onishi, Kazuyoshi Kakehi, Ayano Yoshida, Takayuki Kawamura, Masakazu Yasuda, Hiroki Matsuzoe, Kazuki Mizutani, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Masafumi Ueno, Genichi Sakaguchi, Gaku Nakazawa","doi":"10.1007/s12928-024-01081-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-024-01081-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) using the NAVITOR system has been relatively underreported due to its recent introduction in Japan. This study aimed to assess the short-term outcomes of TAVI with the NAVITOR in real-world clinical practice. Patients with severe aortic stenosis who underwent TAVI using the NAVITOR system at our institution between December 2022 and December 2023 were prospectively enrolled. We evaluated the 30-day post-TAVI outcomes using the Valve Academic Research Consortium 3 (VARC-3). Among 32 consecutive patients (mean age, 84 years; 19% female), technical success was achieved in 31 (96.8%). One patient developed a subclavian artery vascular dissection, requiring balloon angioplasty during the TAVI procedure, and another received a permanent pacemaker due to persistent advanced atrioventricular block. At the 30-day follow-up, device success was achieved in 31 (96.8%) patients, with early safety observed in 27 (84.3%). One patient experienced sudden unexplained death after discharge. None of the patients experienced myocardial infarction, valve embolisation, life-threatening bleeding, or acute kidney injury within 30 days after the procedure. Echocardiographic follow-up showed a median effective orifice area index of 1.26 ± 0.27. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography was performed in 19 patients 30 days after the procedure, revealing hypo-attenuated leaflet thickening (HALT) in 10 (52.6%). Although the 30-day outcomes of TAVI using the NAVITOR system appeared promising, a relatively high incidence of HALT was observed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":"40 2","pages":"378-388"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11910440/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630202","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":"Deep dive into intravascular coronary imaging in calcified lesions.","authors":"Hiroyuki Jinnouchi, Kenichi Sakakura, Hideo Fujita","doi":"10.1007/s12928-025-01096-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-025-01096-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Percutaneous coronary intervention has been developed for patients with coronary artery disease. Calcified lesions are recognized as an unsolved issue where many clinical devices have evolved and some disappeared. Understanding intracoronary imaging of the calcified lesions can help operators to make decisions during the procedure. There are several potential stories of progression of calcification, although a precise mechanism of progression of calcification remains unknown. In the process of a large calcification, it is histologically believed that lipid is replaced by calcification. This process can be observed by intracoronary imaging devices, i.e., intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography. Calcified nodule is a unique type of calcifications. Among the calcified lesions, especially calcified nodule has serious clinical outcomes such as target lesion revascularization (TLR) with stent under-expansion. Additionally, in-stent calcified nodule is a distinctive type of restenosis pattern after stenting to calcified nodule, leading to malignant cycle of repeated TLR. Recently, calcified nodule is divided into two types based on the surface irregularity: (1) eruptive and (2) non-eruptive calcified nodule. Eruptive calcified nodule has higher rate of target vessel revascularization than non-eruptive calcified nodule despite greater stent expansion in eruptive calcified nodule. It is thought that there are differences of component such as the amount of fibrin and the size of calcific nodules between both, although it is common for both to include calcific nodules and fibrin. Histopathological understanding calcified nodule can be helpful to choose the treatment devices during the procedure in the area where there is no correct answer.</p>","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":" ","pages":"234-244"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143078718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical outcome of low-dose and high-dose drug-coated balloon angioplasty with intraplaque wiring for femoropopliteal chronic total occlusion lesions.","authors":"Yuki Shima, Narumi Taninobu, Akihiro Ikuta, Kazunori Mushiake, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazushige Kadota","doi":"10.1007/s12928-024-01067-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-024-01067-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic total occlusion (CTO) lesions of the femoropopliteal artery have been shown to benefit from drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty. However, because bailout stenting is often performed, the outcome of DCB angioplasty alone remains unknown, particularly the differences in outcomes between low-dose DCB (LD-DCB) and high-dose DCB (HD-DCB). To address these issues, we conducted a single-center, retrospective cohort study and enrolled 66 consecutive patients undergoing initial endovascular therapy with DCBs for femoropopliteal CTO lesions from June 2018 to February 2023. Of the 66 patients, 25 underwent LD-DCB angioplasty and 41 underwent HD-DCB angioplasty. In all lesions, no bailout stenting was performed and intraplaque wiring was confirmed by intravascular ultrasound. The primary outcome measure was 1-year primary patency and the secondary outcome measures were 1-year freedom from clinically driven target lesion revascularization (CD-TLR) and reocclusion. There were no significant differences between LD-DCB and HD-DCB angioplasty in patient and lesion characteristics, 1-year primary patency (76.4% vs. 85.9%, log-rank p = 0.51), CD-TLR (95.2% vs. 94.3%, log-rank p = 0.97), and reocclusion (95.0% vs. 94.3%, log-rank p = 0.99). Patients with two of the three risk factors for restenosis, i.e., minimum lumen area < 12.6 mm<sup>2</sup>, dissection angle > 63°, and calcification angle > 270°, had a significantly lower patency rate (no factor: 100% vs. 1 factor: 90.3% vs. 2 factors: 62.6%; log-rank p = 0.04). In patients undergoing DCB angioplasty for femoropopliteal CTO lesions, 1-year primary patency and freedom from CD-TLR were favorable, with no significant difference between LD-DCB and HD-DCB angioplasty.</p>","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":" ","pages":"337-343"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luca Fazzini, Luca Pascalis, Hristo Kirov, Antonino Di Franco, Rhanderson Cardoso, Amr Osama Moustafa, Christian Schulze, Ricardo E Treml, Torsten Doenst, Tulio Caldonazo
{"title":"Safety of crushed/chewed P2Y12 inhibitors in acute coronary syndromes - a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.","authors":"Luca Fazzini, Luca Pascalis, Hristo Kirov, Antonino Di Franco, Rhanderson Cardoso, Amr Osama Moustafa, Christian Schulze, Ricardo E Treml, Torsten Doenst, Tulio Caldonazo","doi":"10.1007/s12928-024-01066-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12928-024-01066-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The administration of crushed or chewed P2Y12 inhibitors (P2Y12i) allows faster platelet inhibition in patients presenting acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Whether this administration approach is safe needs further analysis. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing chewed/crushed to integral P2Y12i administration in patients with ACS. Major bleeding, minor bleeding, and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) were analyzed as binary outcomes. Platelet reactivity unit (PRU) was assessed as a continuous outcome to estimate the impact on platelet physiology. A subgroup analysis of P2Y12i administered was performed. Nine studies comprising 1091 patients with ACS were included, 77% were males. Overall, 87% presented with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction. Six studies administered Ticagrelor, while 3 studies used Prasugrel. The absolute risk of bleeding, assessed by TIMI, was low in both intervention and control arms (0.36% vs. 0.95% for major bleedings and 3.3% vs. 4.4% for minor bleedings), and crushed/chewed administration did not increase the relative risk of bleeding events for TIMI major or minor bleedings (RR 0.51, 95% CI 0.09-2.77, p = 0.293; RR 0.76, 95% CI 0.24-2.43, p = 0.542) or MACE (RR 0.94, 95% CI 0.28-3.19, p = 0.902). PRU was significantly reduced within 1 h after administration in the crushed/chewed P2Y12i group (MD: -70.0%, 95% CI, -89.0 to -51.1%, p<0.01) while we did not observe a significant difference after 4 h (MD: -15.1%, 95% CI -34.2 to 4.0%, p = 0.12). The type of drug did not influence the relative risk of crushed/chewed P2Y12i on major or minor bleeding (p<sub>interaction</sub> = 0.62 and p<sub>interaction</sub> = 0.23<sub>,</sub> respectively). The crushed/chewed administration of P2Y12i in the setting of ACS was not associated with an increased risk of bleeding, suggesting the safety of this strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9439,"journal":{"name":"Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics","volume":" ","pages":"268-276"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}