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Endovascular management of a spontaneous aorto-caval fistula resulting from abdominal aortic aneurysm: case report and literature review

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Endovascular stent graft repair represents a practical approach to managing this fatal condition.Case presentationA 75-year-old male patient was admitted to the nephrology department of our hospital, complaining of acute back pain, hematuria, and repeated vomiting for one week.

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Expert human ECG interpretation and/or the Queen of Hearts could have saved this patient's anterior wall

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A man in his mid 60s with history of CAD and stents experienced sudden onset epigastric abdominal pain radiating up into his chest at home, waking him from sleep. The patient's laboratory studies revealed troponin mildly elevated at 25 ng/L but liver enzymes, lipase were normal. It is stented with good angiographic result.

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Variation in Vessel Size and Angiographic Outcomes Following Stent?Retriever Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke: STRATIS Registry

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Such medium or distal arterial segments have not been assessed with respect to thrombectomy devices used during endovascular therapy. Arterial diameters were measured at all these sites.

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Three-Dimensional CT for Preprocedural Planning of PCI for Ostial Right Coronary Artery Lesions: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

BACKGROUND:Geographic stent-ostium mismatch is an important predictor of target lesion failure after percutaneous coronary intervention of an aorto-ostial right coronary artery lesion. Optimal visualization of the aorto-ostial plane is crucial for precise stent implantation at the level of the ostium.

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Who Needs a CT Coronary Angiogram?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Conventional coronary angiograms are obtained by injecting medications directly into the coronary arteries and imaging them with X-ray equipment in cardiac catheterization laboratory. CT coronary angiogram is also useful to evaluate coronary artery bypass vein grafts and larger coronary stents.

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LVH with anterior ST Elevation. When is it anterior STEMI?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

All these factors, again, support an ECG diagnosis of LVH The patient was nonetheless taken for emergency angiography, and a 99% mid-LAD lesion was found and stented. Electrocardiograhic findings resulting in inappropriate cardiac catheterization laboratory activation for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol.

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Wide-complex tachycardia that didn’t follow the rules

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

They had a history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (EF 30%), as well as PCI with one stent. That the regular WCT in ECG #1 was not VT was subsequently established — because EP study could not induce VT in the laboratory. Home medications included metoprolol, but no calcium- or sodium-channel blocking agents.