Mamta Heena Buch

1 month ago | icrjournal.com | Michelle Morris |Rolf P. Kreutz |Jonathan Byrne |Mamta Heena Buch

Average (ratings) Abstract The development and progression of coronary calcification is of growing interest with the emergence of new imaging modalities and calcium modifying technologies that can facilitate optimal results during complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Coronary atherosclerotic disease typically begins within the intima with pathological intimal thickening and microcalcifications (>0.5 µm and <15 µm).

1 month ago | icrjournal.com | Jonathan Byrne |Mamta Heena Buch |Michael J. Mullen |Alison J Duncan

Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) of the mitral valve is a percutaneous catheter-based procedure used to treat patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR). It is an adaptation of a surgical technique, the Alfieri stitch, where a suture is used to bring the free margins of the mitral valve leaflets together at the site of the regurgitant jet (leaflet approximation) to create a double orifice. The technique can be used to treat both primary (degenerative) and secondary (functional) MR.