Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Clinical Updates and Perspectives
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiovascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2024 | Viewed by 128
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Cardiology, Mitera General Hospital, 151 23 Athens, Greece
Interests: coronary artery disease; atherosclerosis; coronary intervention; myocardial infarction; sudden cardiac death; takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It has been more than 40 years since the first percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PCI) was performed. Since then, significant advances in the field of interventional cardiology have been accomplished. In contemporary clinical practice, radial artery is considered the safest site for access, substituting the femoral artery as the by-default option for gaining access. Intracoronary imaging (intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography)-guided PCI has been associated with better outcomes compared to conventional PCI. Whether the functional assessment of lesions is beneficial for the patient or not is contested, with both positive and negative studies published recently. New cutting-edge devices have been added to the armamentarium of the interventional cardiologist, facilitating PCI and improving its results. Intravascular lithotripsy is a safe and effective option for the preparation of severely calcified lesions. New-generation stent platforms have reduced the rates of in-stent restenosis, and they have overcome first-generation drug-eluting stents’ Achilles hill, namely stent thrombosis, while drug-eluting balloons aspire to overcome stent-related complications by leaving no material in the patient's coronary artery tree. Although complete revascularization in the setting of myocardial infarction should be the ultimate goal of every interventional cardiologist, the impact of PCI on hard endpoints concerning stable coronary artery disease is under dispute.
Dr. Iosif Xenogiannis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
- intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
- optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- radial access
- drug-eluting balloons (DEB)
- drug-eluting stents (DES)
