Abstract Objectives This study sought to determine whether intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance compared with angiographic guidance reduces long-term risk of cardiac death in patients undergoing complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Background Although IVUS is a useful tool for accurate assessment of lesion profiles and optimal stent implantation, there are limited data on long-term clinical outcomes between IVUS-guided and angiography-guided PCI for patients with complex lesions...
#1Jun-Jie Zhang(Nanjing Medical University)H-Index: 26
#2Xiao-Fei Gao(Nanjing Medical University)H-Index: 16
Last. Shao-Liang Chen(Nanjing Medical University)H-Index: 38
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Abstract Background Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation is associated with fewer major adverse cardiovascular events compared with angiography guidance for patients with individual lesion subset. However, the beneficial effect on major adverse cardiovascular event outcome of IVUS guidance over angiography guidance in all-comers who undergo DES implantation still remains understudied. Objectives This study aimed to determine the benefits of IVUS guidance o...
Last. James Slater(NYU: New York University)H-Index: 47
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BACKGROUND: Intravascular imaging with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important adjunct to invasive coronary angiography. OBJECTIVES: The primary objective was to examine the frequency of intravascular coronary imaging, trends in imaging use, and outcomes of patients undergoing angiography and/or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the United States. METHODS: Adult patients ≥18 years of age undergoing in-hospital cardiac catheterization from ...
Last. Xiaofan Wu(Capital Medical University)H-Index: 1
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Background Although several meta-analyses have demonstrated the utility of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in guiding drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation compared to angiography-guidance, there has been a dearth of evidence in the left main coronary artery (LMCA) lesion subset.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies are frequently performed, but no widely accepted guidance is available at present. We performed a systematic scoping review of published methodological recommendations on how to systematically review and meta-analyse observational studies. We searched online databases and websites and contacted experts in the field to locate potentially eligible articles. We included articles that provided any type of recommendation on how to conduct ...
Last. Gregg W. Stone(NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital)H-Index: 63
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Abstract The advent of intravascular imaging has been a significant advancement in visualization of coronary arteries, particularly with optical coherence tomography (OCT) that allows for high-resolution imaging of intraluminal and transmural coronary structures. Accumulating data support a clinical role for OCT in a multitude of clinical scenarios, including assessing the natural history of atherosclerosis and modulating effects of therapies, mechanisms of acute coronary syndromes, mechanistic ...
Last. Gregg W. Stone(NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital)H-Index: 63
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Summary Background Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is most commonly guided by angiography alone. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance has been shown to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) after PCI, principally by resulting in a larger postprocedure lumen than with angiographic guidance. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides higher resolution imaging than does IVUS, although findings from some studies suggest that it might lead to smaller luminal diameters after ...
Abstract The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance for drug-eluting stent (DES) optimization is limited by the number of adequately powered randomized control trials (RCTs). We performed an updated meta-analysis, including data from recently published RCTs and observational studies, by reviewing the literature in Medline and the Cochrane Library to identify studies that compared clinical outcomes between IVUS-guided and angiography-guided DES implantation from January 1995 to January 2...
Aims To examine the cost-effectiveness of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) use during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES) in treating coronary artery disease (CAD).
Importance Use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) promotes better clinical outcomes for coronary intervention in complex coronary lesions. However, randomized data demonstrating the clinical usefulness of IVUS are limited for lesions treated with drug-eluting stents. Objective To determine whether the long-term clinical outcomes with IVUS-guided drug-eluting stent implantation are superior to those with angiography-guided implantation in patients with long coronary lesions. Design, Setting, and ...
#1Juan Guo(Huada: Beijing University of Chemical Technology)H-Index: 1
#2Xueting Pan(Huada: Beijing University of Chemical Technology)H-Index: 10
Last. Huiyu Liu(Huada: Beijing University of Chemical Technology)H-Index: 35
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Low-intensity ultrasound-triggered sonodynamic therapy (SDT) is a promising noninvasive therapeutic modality due to its strong tissue penetration ability. In recent years, with the development of nanotechnology, nanoparticle-based sonosensitizer-mediated SDT has been widely investigated. With the increasing demand for precise and personalized treatment, abundant novel sonosensitizers with imaging capabilities have been developed for determining the optimal therapeutic window, thus significantly ...
BACKGROUND A patient has presented with type A aortic dissection and computed tomography aortogram revealed proximal and distal aorta intimointimal intussusception. MATERIAL & METHODS The patient has undergone successful aortic root replacement surgery and on the way to his recovery, he developed inferolateral myocardial infarction with the troponin I leak. RESULTS The coronary angiogram showed a small contrast leak around the left button with no luminal compromise. CONCLUSION An intravascular u...
Although medical therapy is the preferred first-line treatment for patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS), revascularization remains an important consideration. We present a review that identifies the three diagnostic technologies most important to guiding the decision to revascularize patients with CCS: (1) cardiac computed tomography, (2) intracoronary imaging, and (3) lesion-specific physiological guidance.
Die Kooperation von Medizinern, Ingenieuren und anderen Naturwissenschaften bringt weiterhin effektive Produkte auf den Markt, die dazu geeignet sind, die Dominanz der endovaskularen Techniken im Bereich der peripheren arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit (pAVK) weiter auszubauen. Begleitend werden zunehmend bildgebende Verfahren weiterentwickelt oder neu entwickelt, die helfen konnen, die Strahlenbelastung fur Patient und Anwender trotz wachsender Zahlen strahlenbasierter Therapieverfahren deutlich ...
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a diagnostic modality used during percutaneous coronary intervention. However, specialist skills are required to interpret IVUS images. To address this issue, we developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) program that categorizes vessel components, including calcification and stents, seen in IVUS images of complex lesions. When developing our AI using U-Net, IVUS images were taken from patients with angina pectoris and were manually segmented into the followi...
Background null The interventional treatment of calcified lesions with severe tortuosity in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) was challenging and the report of rotational atherectomy with mother-and-child technique has been scarce. null Case presentation null An 84-year-old woman was hospitalized for non-ST-segment acute coronary syndrome. Coronary angiography revealed a calcified nodule in the LAD. During rotational atherectomy of the calcified and tortuous lesion in the proximal LAD, e...
#2Diana Wolfe(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)H-Index: 5
Last. Anna E. Bortnick(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)H-Index: 5
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Cardiovascular disease is an escalating cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. Women are at risk for acute myocardial infarction (MI), and more are living with risk factors for ischemic heart disease (IHD). The purpose of this review is to describe the evaluation and management of women at risk for and diagnosed with IHD in pregnancy. RECENT FINDINGS Pregnancy can provoke MI which has been estimated as occurring in 1.5-10/100, 000 deliveries or 1/12,400 hospitalizations, wi...
Abstract null null Segmentation of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) images into Lumen and Media (interior and exterior) artery vessel walls is highly clinically relevant in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. When fused with position data, such segmentations also play a key role in reconstructing 3D representations of arteries. Automated segmentation in real-time is known to be a difficult image analysis problem, primarily due to artefacts commonly pres...
