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Author(s): Abhishek Joshi , Andrew Wragg Added: 3 years ago
Simulator training provides the opportunity to acquire and practise technical skills in a safe, controlled and reproducible environment without the risk of harming patients. Although there is no evidence to prove that patient outcomes are worse if trainees undertake interventional procedures, there is an inevitable concern that procedures may not be as safe or successful if undertaken by doctors… View more

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Intervention
Precision Medicine in Interventional Cardiology
Author(s): Thijmen W Hokken , Joana M Ribeiro , Peter P De Jaegere , et al Added: 3 years ago
Evidence-based medicine is the foundation of contemporary clinical practice and results in better clinical outcomes than experience-based medicine.1 Meta-analyses of homogenous randomised controlled clinical trials are the pinnacle of evidence-based medicine and the backbone of the highest recommendations in clinical guidelines. These randomised trials pertain only to the selected patients who… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Digital Health
Author(s): Giovanni Amoroso Added: 3 years ago
The increased incidence of coronary artery disease, as well as the advances in device technology and improved potentialities of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), have resulted in a dramatic rise in the number of invasive coronary procedures (both diagnostic catheterisations and PCIs).1 These procedures normally used the transfemoral access, which involves the insertion of a catheter… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

Intervention
Author(s): Thomas J Fogarty Added: 3 years ago
The embolectomy balloon catheter is the quintessential tool of the interventional cardiologist. Today, there are many variations on the basic design: they can be used to dilate or occlude vessels, for dissection or anatomical development of planes or to deploy stents, for example. Interventionalists are finding new ways all the time to use them in the vasculature throughout the body. Today's… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Salvatore Brugaletta , Hector M Garcia-Garcia , Patrick W Serruys Added: 3 years ago
The identification of vulnerable plaques has been a longstanding challenge for interventional cardiologists. Plaque composition is regarded as an important feature for assessment of plaque vulnerability. Histopathologists have in particular shown that the type of plaque most commonly prone to rupture in vivo is the thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA), in which the presence of lipid core (also called… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Lead Protected Cap in the Cath Lab
Author(s): Yasar Sattar , Prasanna M Sengodan , Mustafa Sajjad Cheema , et al Added: 10 months ago

Standards & Guidelines

Intervention
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Personal History Dr. Pilar Jiménez-Quevedo is a specialist in Interventional Cardiology based in Madrid, Spain. Academic History In 1997, Dr Jiménez-Quevedo earned her Degree in Medicine from the University of Navarra. She has a masters in Interventional Cardiology (2005) and a Doctor Cum Laude in Medicine and Surgery (2007) from the Complutense University of Madrid. From 2005 to… View more
Added: 5 years ago
The Joint Interventional Meeting JIM 2019 was held in Milan, Italy. This International Course of Interventional Cardiology was mainly concentrated on the practical and educational aspects associated with case demonstrations. Theselive case videos wereprovided courtesy of the Joint Interventional Meeting (JIM). To register for the upcoming JIM 2021 being held in Milan on February 11… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Intervention
Craig Thompson
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director
Personal History Dr. Thompson is based in Hartford Connecticut, where he works as Director of Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology for Hartford HealthCare. Academic History Dr. Thompson holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, a medical degree from the University of Mississippi and a Masters of Medical Science in clinical investigation… View more