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Ice-Assisted Transcatheter Closure of Interatrial Shunts: Ten-Year Follow-Up

Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is rapidly becoming a necessary tool in the catheterisation laboratory. We sought to prospectively evaluate…

Occupational Risks of Chronic Low Dose Radiation Exposure in Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory: The Italian Healthy Cath Lab Study

Contemporary interventional cardiologists have an exposure per person, per year, two to ten times higher than that of diagnostic radiologists. Cumulative…

The Woest Study: Is Now Time to Update the Recommendations Regarding the Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients with Indication for Oral Anticoagulation Undergoing Coronary Stent Implantation?

Triple therapy (TT) of warfarin, aspirin, and clopidogrel is currently recommended as the antithrombotic therapy for patients with an indication for oral…

Importance of Plaque Modification Before Coronary Artery Stenting

Lately, the importance of plaque modification prior to stent implantation, particularly the use of cutting and scoring balloons, has been a subject of…

Retrograde Approach for Chronic Total Occlusions: The Importance of Experience and Proctorship

Recanalisation of chronic total occlusions has remained suboptimal in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Hopes for a better outcome…

Multivariate Analysis and Outcomes in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; from Statistics to Cath Lab

High quality randomised clinical trials (RCTs) and meta-analysis represent the highest levels of evidence, but in everyday clinical practice…

Update on Drug-Eluting Balloons for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Restenosis prevention continues to be a challenge to the interventional cardiologist. The introduction of stents has virtually eliminated the problems of…

Pacemaker-Dependence After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as an alternative for multimorbid patients not suitable for open heart surgery. The vicinity…