Paclitaxel crystal visualization by intravascular imaging following drug-coated balloon angioplasty: A report of 2 cases.

Drug-coated balloons (DCB) have evolved as an alternative to drug-eluting stents in coronary interventions without the addition of an extra metal layer while delivering antiproliferative drugs. However, the delivery of the drug at the target site cannot be objectively assessed in routine practice. Hence, the success of a DCB angioplasty is limited to luminal gain alone.

Changing spectrum of infective endocarditis in India: An 11-year experience from an academic hospital in North India.

Objective: Several studies have demonstrated a shift in the spectrum of infective endocarditis (IE) in the developed world. We aimed to investigate whether demographic and microbiologic characteristics of IE have changed in India.

Design: A retrospective analysis of patients with in north India between 2010 and 2020.

Real world perspective of coronary chronic total occlusion in third world countries: A tertiary care centre study from northern India.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, angiographic profile and predictors of outcome for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) of coronary chronic total occlusions (CTO) in a tertiary referral centre of north India.

Background: There is no data on the prevalence and very few reports on clinical characteristics, angiographic profile and outcome of PCI in CTO from India.

Methods: Retrospective analysis was done for the data of 12,020 patients undergoing coronary angiography (CAG) between January 2018 to January 2019 at our centre.