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2007 Focused Update of the ACC/AHA Guidelines

Managing patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

By Eric R. Bates, MD

Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation

An overview of percutaneous options for repair of the pulmonic valve.

By Timothy D. Smith, MD; Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD, FACC; and Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FSCAI, FACC

A History of ASD Closure

A review of atrial septal closure, including the surgical evolution and the subsequent progression of transcatheter device closure.

By Terry D. King, MD; Noel L. Mills, MD; and Nancy B. King, PNP, MBA

Treatment Options and Outcomes for Tricuspid Regurgitation

An update on the rapidly evolving landscape of surgical and transcatheter techniques and devices for tricuspid valve disease treatment.

By Gorav Ailawadi, MD, MBA; Charles Davidson, MD; Maurizio Taramasso, MD, PhD; and Marta Sitges Carreño, MD, PhD

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Cardiogenic Shock

A review of the current and evolving percutaneous interventions.

By Amar R. Chadaga, MD, and Timothy A. Sanborn, MD

Rapamycin-Eluting Coronary Stent for PCI: The TARGET IV Trial

A review of the TARGET IV trial evaluating the Firehawk rapamycin-eluting cobalt chromium coronary stent system. Can this new stent increase healing time, reduce adverse events, and eliminate the need for prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy?

By Christiana O. Oshotse, BA, and Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, MBA

Guidelines for STEMI

Key messages from the ACC/AHA/SCAI 2009 focused update for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

By Jeffery M. Sparling, MD; Pinak B. Shah, MD; and David O. Williams, MD

TAVI: Which Valve for Which Patient?

A review of the technical challenges and optimal valve choices in different clinical and anatomic scenarios.

By Noman Ali, PhD, and Daniel J. Blackman, MD

East Meets West: Emerging Transcatheter Aortic Valve Technologies

Emerging valve systems and iterative technologies from around the world and how they could shape global practice going forward.

By Federico Mercanti, MD; Zhen-Gang Zhao, MD; Antoinette Neylon, MD, BCh; Mao Chen, MD, PhD; and Darren Mylotte, MD, BCh

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Durability

Considering the contemporary clinical evidence on long-term TAV durability, a potential driver of TAVR adoption in younger populations.

By Nicholas J. Montarello, MD; Lars Søndergaard, MD, DMSc; and Ole De Backer, MD, PhD

Post-PCI Selection of Antithrombotic Therapy

Improvements in antithrombotic pharmacotherapy have led to important reductions in complications after percutaneous coronary intervention.

By John P. Vavalle, MD, and Robert A. Harrington, MD

TAVR Using CoreValve

World experience and an update of the United States pivotal trial.

By Peter S. Fail, MD, FACC, FACP; Edgar Feinberg, MD, FACS; and Gary Chaisson, RTR, RICA

TAV-in-TAV: Future Considerations for Intermediate- and Low-Risk Patients

Challenges to the transcatheter management of severe aortic stenosis across a lifetime.

By Akshay Kamath, MD; Shravan Rao, MD; Brett Sheridan, MD; Christian Spies, MD; and David Daniels, MD

CABG for Multivessel CAD

Recent studies show that CABG is still preferred over PCI for most patients.

By Subhasis Chatterjee, MD; John C. Alexander, MD; and Paul J. Pearson, MD, PhD

Mechanisms of Transcatheter Valve Degeneration

A translational perspective.

By Hacina Gill, BSc; David Meier, MD; Althea Lai, BSc; Geoffrey W. Payne, MSc, PhD; and Stephanie L. Sellers, MSc, PhD

Managing Transport for Primary PCI

A review of the literature and strategies to optimize patient outcomes.

By George S. Hanzel, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Team Approaches to Hypertension Management: New Opportunities for Interventionalists

A multidisciplinary approach to hypertension is necessary to achieve optimal outcomes, with interventionalists increasingly involved with the reemergence of promising nonpharmacologic options such as renal denervation.

By Klevin Roger L. Reyes, MD; Gizem Bilgili, MD; and Florian Rader, MD, MSc

Update on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy/Intravascular Ultrasound

The fundamental aspects and current clinical roles.

By Selcuk Kucukseymen, MD; Francesca Ciatti, MD; Niccolò Ciardetti, MD; Alessio Mattesini, MD; and Carlo Di Mario, MD, PhD

TAV-in-TAV

Management strategies and outcomes.

By Arber Kodra, MD; Luigi Pirelli, MD; Craig Basman, MD; Sean Wilson, MD; Denny Wang, BS; and Chad Kliger, MD