Paraganglioma-induced reverse takotsubo syndrome treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a young patient with a history of malignancy: a case report.

Background: Reverse takotsubo-like cardiomyopathy (rTCC) is a rare type of stress-induced cardiomyopathy associated with catecholamine surges. Reverse takotsubo-like cardiomyopathy is characterized by basal and mid-ventricular hypokinesis with apical sparing. Paragangliomas are catecholamine-secreting neuroendocrine tumours outside the adrenal gland that can cause palpitations, hypertension, and rarely cardiomyopathy.

Coronary Orbital Atherectomy Through Newly Deployed Left Main Coronary Stent.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in complex, calcified coronary lesions can be assisted with orbital atherectomy (OA). OA is generally avoided when there are lesions amendable to OA distal to a newly deployed stent due to the risk of device-stent interaction, burr entrapment, and stent avulsion. We present a case documenting the successful passage of an OA system through a recently deployed left main stent to prepare a chronically occluded left anterior descending for PCI.

Percutaneous thrombectomy in patients with intermediate- and high-risk pulmonary embolism and contraindications to thrombolytics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Catheter-directed interventions have slowly been gaining ground in the treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE), especially in patients with increased risk of bleeding. The goal of this study is to summarize the evidence for the efficacy and safety of percutaneous thrombectomy (PT) in patients with contraindications to systemic and local thrombolysis. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis using MEDLINE, Cochrane, Scopus and the Web of Science databases for studies from inception to March 2022.

Burden of cardiovascular disease attributable to particulate matter pollution in the eastern Mediterranean region: analysis of the 1990-2019 global burden of disease.

Aims: Particulate matter pollution is the most important environmental mediator of global cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Air pollution evidence from the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) is limited, owing to scarce local studies, and the omission from multinational studies. We sought to investigate trends of particulate matter (PM2.