Percutaneous coronary intervention of severely/moderately calcified coronary lesions using single-burr rotational atherectomy: A retrospective study.

Objective: This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention in moderately and severely calcified coronary lesions, which are either not crossed or dilated using a Scoreflex balloon at nominal pressure, using single-burr rotational atherectomy (burr-artery ratio, ≤0.6) followed by scoring balloon dilatation (balloon-artery ratio, 0.9).

Microbiological Surveillance of Operation Theatres: Five Year Retrospective Analysis from a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India.

Introduction: Microbiological contamination of air and environment in the operation theaters (OTs) are major risk factor for surgical site and other hospital-associated infections.

Objectives: The aim was to identify bacterial colonization of surfaces and equipment and to determine the microbial contamination of air in the OTs of a tertiary care hospital.

Materials And Methods: Five years (January 2010-December 2014) retrospective analysis of the data obtained from routine microbiological surveillance of the five OTs of the hospital was done.

Transcatheter endovascular therapy of a traumatic common hepatic artery aneurysm.

Dilemma was encountered regarding diagnosis and treatment when a farmer presented with a progressively increasing pulsatile abdominal mass and signs of obstructive jaundice. A computerized tomographic scan reported it to be a pancreatic pathology, but angiographically it was found to be a large aneurysm arising from the common hepatic artery. Surgery was thought to be highly risky; therefore, a transcatheter technique was successfully applied to tackle this life-threatening situation.