Category Archives: Angiography and Interventions

P-QRS-T axes – computer generated All the three (QRS axis, P wave axis and T wave axis) axes are within the left lower quadrant. This indicates that QRS [..]

RCA in LAO 50 degree view   Right coronary artery (RCA) angiogram from trans radial route in left anterior oblique (LAO) 50 degree view. Mild plaque seen in [..]

Michifumi Tokuda and colleagues from Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston along with Frédéric Sacher from Univ Bordeaux II, Hospital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, Bordeaux-Pessac, France [..]

Prior to endovascular aortic repair (EVAR), make sure of the patency of superior mesenteric artery (SMA) as inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) will be blocked by the graft. If [..]

MACE = major adverse cardiovascular event(s) Components of MACE are death, reinfarction, ischemia-driven target vessel revascularization, and stroke. NACE = net adverse clinical event(s); NACE = (MACE + [..]

Medina classification of coronary bifurcation Medina classification of coronary bifurcation lesions [Kaplan S, Barlis P, Dimopoulos K, et al. Culotte versus T-stenting in bifurcation lesions: immediate clinical and [..]

Coronary bifurcations with an angle of less than seventy degrees are known as Y-shaped bifurcations. Access to side branch is easier in Y-shaped bifurcations, though plaque shift while [..]

RCA LAO 45 Cranial 20 Right coronary artery (RCA) angiogram from trans radial route in left anterior oblique (LAO) 45 degree with a cranial tilt of 20 degree. [..]

Angiographic classification of Takayasu’s arteritis was suggested by Moriwaki R et al after a review of 102 Indian and 80 Japanese patients with Takayasu arteritis. [Clinical manifestations of [..]

Rheolytic thrombectomy can be considered when there is contraindication to systemic thrombolysis in patients with pulmonary embolism and right ventricular dysfunction [Ferrigno L et al. Management of pulmonary [..]