Journal of Transcatheter Interventions

ABSTRACT Background Current guidelines recommend the use of coronary intravascular ultrasound as an adjunctive tool in challenging situations. Objective To characterize the use of intravascular ultrasound in Portugal and compare outcomes after left main percutaneous coronary intervention, with or without intravascular ultrasound. Methods A retrospective multicentric observational study analyzed patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention between January 2012 and December 2018 and were included in the Portuguese Registry on Interventional Cardiology of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia . A two-sided […]

ABSTRACT Cardiac transplantation is the common final route of severe heart disease in eligible patients. Among the challenges of this treatment is cardiac allograft vasculopathy, the main cause of morbidity and late mortality after heart transplantation, accounting for 12.5% of deaths after the first year. In the last two decades, numerous studies have been published validating the measurement of maximum intimal thickening observed in intracoronary ultrasound as a predictor of poor prognosis when greater than 0.5mm. We report a case […]

ABSTRACT Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure is an invasive option for cardioembolic event prevention and it is indicated for patients presenting non-valvular atrial fibrillation and oral anticoagulation therapy failure or contraindication. There is limited data addressing the technical success of percutaneous left atrial appendage closure in patients with complex anatomy and history of previous atrial septal defect repair surgery. We report a case of left atrial appendage closure performed with the LAmbre™ device (LifeTech Scientific, Shenzhen, China) in a patient […]