Pitt Lim

Oct 8, 2024 | bjcardio.co.uk | Pitt Lim

A quiet revolution without fanfare took place at a meeting, witnessed by over 1,000 people both in London and live streamed across the globe on 31 January 2024. It was unprecedented, going against received wisdom. That, it was possible to treat atherosclerotic coronary artery disease with an updated Andreas Grüntzig’s balloon alone, without the safety net and comfort of implanting a single stent.

Feb 16, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Pitt Lim

Hostname: page-component-5d59c44645-hb754Total loading time: 0Render date: 2024-02-16T12:41:51.281ZHas data issue: falsehasContentIssue false Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2024 Abstract References Keywords coronary artery compressioncoronary anomalypost-cardiotomyCHD Type Letter to the Editor Information Cardiology in the Young ,Volume 34 ,Issue 2 , February 2024 , pp. 465 - 466 Copyright © The Author(s), 2024.

Nov 10, 2023 | bjcardio.co.uk | Pitt Lim

Andreas Grüntzig, an ardent angiologist crafted an indeflatable sausage-shaped dual-lumen balloon-catheter, designed its delivery to the heart, launched minimally invasive coronary intervention and taught by beaming live demonstration. Subsequent advances are just incremental tweaks and tinkers around this fully formed framework from 1978.

Mar 3, 2023 | onlinecjc.ca | Pitt Lim

I read with interest Irfan and colleagues’ case reporton purported coronary microvascular spasm and panic attack during a functional coronary angiogram. The patient did not stop her calcium channel blocker on the day of procedure. This could confound the procedure, i.e. blunting either coronary epicardial or microvascular spasm if acetylcholine was given, which was not. Neither was adenosine administered. How then was the coronary flow reserve (CFR) of 1.9 derived?