[Mentalizing as in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy].

Based on the psychological stress caused by theCovid 19 pandemic in families, this article explores the fundamental question of how the psychological process of mentalizing - metaphorically speaking - can act as a psychosocial vaccination in stressful times. To this end, we look at the developments in the psychosocial context under the conditions of the pandemic and consider the effects on child and adolescent psychotherapy on the basis of a vignette of a group therapy session.

Left ventricular end-systolic volume response post-stress echocardiography: Dilation as a marker of multi-vessel coronary artery disease.

Background: Transient ischemic dilation of the left ventricle (LV) during stress echocardiography indicates extensive myocardial ischemia. It remains unclear whether the change of LV end-systolic volume (ESV) or end-diastolic volume (EDV) better correlated with significant coronary artery disease (CAD). Meanwhile, the clinical significance of the extent of the volumetric change post-stress has not been investigated.

The effects of intra-arterial vasodilators on radial artery size and spasm: implications for contemporary use of trans-radial access for coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Transradial access (TRA) offers advantages including decreased vascular complications, reduced length of hospital stay, and reduced cost. The size of the radial artery (RA) limits the equipment that can be used via TRA. Intra-arterial (IA) vasodilators prevent and treat RA spasm, yet are not uniformly used in TRA and their effect on the absolute size of the RA remains unknown.

Topical nitroglycerin and lidocaine to dilate the radial artery prior to transradial cardiac catheterization: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial: the PRE-DILATE Study.

Background/objectives: Transradial access (TRA) is being increasingly used for both diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures. Use of TRA offers many advantages: decreased bleeding, vascular complications, reduced length of hospital stay, and reduced cost. However, the small size of the radial artery limits the size of the equipment that can be used via this approach.

An unusual case of bilateral subclavian-carotid artery graft occlusion with coronary steal syndrome managed in the cath lab.

A 65-year-old man, s/p coronary bypass surgery (CABG) with left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to the left anterior descending (LAD) artery 12 years previously, presented to his local hospital with left upper extremity pain, dizziness, falls, and chest pain. At the outside hospital, a proximal total left subclavian occlusion was found and the patient underwent left subclavian artery to common carotid artery (SCA-CCA) bypass surgery. Shortly thereafter, the patient developed right subclavian thrombosis, and underwent right SCA-CCA bypass surgery.

The Impella 2.5 L for percutaneous mechanical circulatory support in severe humoral allograft rejection.

Heart transplant recipients who experience humoral rejection are at risk for hemodynamic instability. We report a case of a 64-year-old male with cardiogenic shock due to allograft rejection requiring mechanical support while undergoing intense immunosuppression. He underwent implantation of a micro-axial endovascular pump (Impella).

Successful retrograde recanalization of a left anterior descending artery chronic total occlusion through a previously placed left anterior descending-to-diagonal artery stent.

Since the introduction of the retrograde technique, the success rate of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has increased significantly in patients with suitable anatomy. To our knowledge, retrograde recanalization of a CTO from the abluminal side of a previously placed stent has not been reported. We describe a case of retrograde PCI of a mid left anterior descending (LAD) artery CTO through a previously placed proximal LAD stent which extended into the diagonal artery.