Medicine (Baltimore)
August 2023
Rationale: Although IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can affect various organs, its association with a cardiac mass is exceptionally rare. Here, we report a case of a woman with IgG4-RD and a cardiac mass and discuss 10 similar cases reported previously.
Patient Concerns: A 65-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for chest discomfort and back pain.
Background: It has been reported that early detection and treatment of cancer therapy- related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) improves its prognosis. The detailed relationships between electrocardiographic repolarization indices and decreased left ventricular function in CTRCD have not been elucidated. We closely assessed such relationships in patients with doxorubicin (DOX)-induced CTRCD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 68-year-old man was scheduled to undergo percutaneous coronary intervention for in-stent total occlusion of the severely tortuous right coronary artery. Intravascular ultrasound revealed heavy in-stent calcification. Lesion atherectomy was required; however, severe proximal vessel tortuosity was detected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to evaluate the additional debulking efficacy of low-speed rotational atherectomy (RA) after high-speed RA by using intravascular imaging. A total of 22 severe calcified coronary lesions in 19 patients (age, 74 ± 10 years; 74% male) were retrospectively analyzed. All of these lesions underwent RA under optical coherence tomography (OCT) or optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) guidance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 63 year-old woman with claudication underwent endovascular therapy for diffuse stenosis of the right superficial femoral artery in our hospital. We performed paclitaxel-coated balloon angioplasty using the IN.PACT™ Admiral™ and achieved acceptable results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the clinical impact and predictors of slow flow after endovascular treatment (EVT) using the Crosser catheter for debulking infrapopliteal lesions associated with critical limb ischemia.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included 65 patients with critical limb ischemia (70 limbs, 90 infrapopliteal lesions), who underwent EVT using the Crosser catheter between November 2011 and February 2017. The Crosser catheter was used when the balloon catheter could not be passed through the lesion or could not be dilated sufficiently.
Little is known about the superiority of balloon angioplasty vs. stent implantation for femoropopliteal (FP) lesions according to subgroup. This study involved 1,018 de novo (balloon angioplasty, n=462; stent implantation, n=556) and 114 in-stent restenosis (ISR) FP lesions (balloon angioplasty, n=69; stent implantation, n=45) treated with endovascular therapy.
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