State-of-the-Art Developments in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2024) | Viewed by 1864
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chronic total occlusion; percutaneous coronary intervention; PCI; interventional cardiology; coronary angiography; myocardial infarction; coronary CTOPCI
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Though it has been over 40 years since the inception of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), PCI is not yet on a par with surgical revascularization (CABG) for occlusive coronary stenoses. While the adoption of Drug Eluting Stent (DES), high-speed atherectomy, dual-antiplatelet agents, intravascular imaging, and the therapeutic algorithm has contributed enormously to maximizing PCI procedural success, coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI remains the last frontier of interventional cardiology in terms of procedural success in comparison with non-CTO PCI. Since every coronary artery disease (CAD) is different, given lesion complexities, patient co-morbidities, and financial equities available in the healthcare system, much more than specialist expertise is needed to successfully treat the condition. While PCI has been proven to improve angina symptoms (an indication justifying the procedure), novel therapies have been developed and implemented with potentially durable, better clinical outcomes.
In this Special Issue, we welcome authors to submit papers on the clinical advancements of complex PCI or CTO PCI, thereby improving current indication, technicality, and device application.
Dr. Masahisa Yamane
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- chronic total occlusion
- cto-pci
- drug eluting stent
- drug coating balloon
- intravascular lithotripsy
- intravascular imaging
- coronary computed tomography angiography
- complex high-risk coronary intervention
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