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Catheter intervention

"60-year-old man with crescendo angina."

"67-year-old man who had received 3 single venous aortocoronary bypass grafts in 1978."

"A48-year-old male saxophone player underwent successful PTCA to the left circumflex coronary artery..."

"A 49-year-old woman with symptomatic pulmonary stenosis underwent percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty."

"A 46-year-old woman presented with 3 hours of severe chest pain, sweating, and nausea."

"A 56-year-old woman was admitted with an atrial septal defect of the secundum type."

63-year-old woman with right leg and arm TIAs and a right neck bruit. Where might the stenosis be?

"A continuous murmur heard on the 10th day of life in a 590-g infant..."

"Lesions typical of atheroembolism are apparent on the feet (Panel A) of a 65-year-old man who had undergone left heart catheterization through the femoral approach four weeks earlier."

"A 65-year-old woman was referred to the vascular laboratory after coronary angiography and stent insertion via an 8F right femoral artery sheath."

"An 87-year-old woman underwent placement of a permanent pacemaker for recurrent near-syncope and sick sinus syndrome."

"A 67-year-old woman presented with clinical evidence of expansion of an aortic aneurysm..."

"70-year-old man with exertional angina presented for cardiac catheterization..."

"A 61-year-old man with a history of coronary artery aneurysms was referred to our institution for evaluation of dyspnea on exertion."

"...episodes of atrial flutter triggered spurious therapies from the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator..."

"An 83-year-old woman was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital with postinfarction angina and cardiogenic shock 24 hours after thrombolytic therapy for an inferior myocardial infarction."

"A 59-year-old man underwent primary angioplasty during inferior myocardial infarction..."

"A 62-year-old woman presented with unstable angina. "

"A 68-year-old man presented with an incessant supraventricular tachycardia 3 months after heart transplantation..."

Angina after radiation therapy for in-stent restenosis.

Distal coronary embolization during angioplasty.

"A 35-year-old woman presented with exertional dyspnea that had been present for 3 months."

"A proximal stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery (arrow in Panel A) was found in a 41-year-old man during coronary arteriography for unstable angina."

"The patient was a 12-year-old boy who was born with a coarctation of the thoracic aorta."

"A 50-year-old white man presented with in-stent restenosis in April 1998."

"60-year-old man was admitted because of unstable angina."

"A Dacron prosthetic graft was sutured to a balloon-expandable metallic stent and inserted under local anesthesia through a right femoral-artery cutdown in a 70-year-old woman with an enlarging, tender 5.6-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm."

"A10-year-old boy with aortic valve stenosis treated by surgical valvotomy when he was 6 months old underwent balloon dilatation of recurrent aortic stenosis."

"A 69-year-old patient with unstable angina presented to cardiac catheterization with a tight lesion in the mid right coronary artery... and moderate lesions in the left main and left anterior descending coronary arteries."

Edited by Donald L Vine MD

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