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Eagle’s Eye View: Quantitative Coronary Angiography vs Intervascular Ultrasound to Guide PCI, Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Catheters, PCI vs Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Left Main Disease and Diabetes

American College of Cardiology

In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at the difference between quantitative coronary angiography versus intervascular ultrasound to guide PCI. He then discusses paclitaxel-coated balloon catheters vs uncoated balloon angioplasty for treating coronary in-stent restenosis.

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Case Report: Extended cardiopulmonary resuscitation in sudden cardiac arrest after acute myocardial infarction

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

However, the patient's cardiac Doppler ultrasound indicated poor cardiac contractions, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was started immediately. Coronary artery bypass grafting was performed after the patient's condition stabilized, and he was finally discharged.

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Smith comment: This patient did not have a bedside ultrasound. Had one been done, it would have shown a feature that is apparent on this ultrasound (however, this patient's LV function would not be as good as in this clip): This is recorded with the LV on the right. In fact, bedside ultrasound might even find severe aortic stenosis.

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The correlation between severe asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis and severe multi-organ dysfunction after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

All enrolled patients underwent carotid artery ultrasound prior to OPCAB. The information was extracted independently by two authors of the study from the medical records. Both univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted.ResultsA total of 562 patients met the inclusion criteria for the current study.

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Minimizing stroke risk in off-pump CABG: the role of clampless devices and the piggyback proximal anastomosis technique

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

IntroductionNumerous techniques have been developed to minimize risk of perioperative stroke during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), including off-pump approach, preoperative and intraoperative imaging of the ascending aorta (CT scan and epiaortic ultrasound), anaortic CABG with bilateral internal thoracic artery, clampless devices for the construction (..)

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Pulmonary edema, with tachycardia and OMI on the ECG -- what is going on?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I suspect pulmonary edema, but we are not given information on presence of B-lines on bedside ultrasound, or CXR findings. The patient was again sent home with a plan for surgical aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting to the PDA. We certainly know that there is hypoxia.