Alex Truesdell
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Alex Truesdell
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Interventional Cardiologist. Combat Veteran AF-IZ-XK. Father. #CardiacCriticalCare #CardiogenicShock #CTO101 #ImageFirst #RadialFirst
2/2 2/2 And…single-access Swan 🦢 monitored Impella-assisted IVUS 👁️ guided LM-LAD-LCX DK Culotte Kiss 💋 POT 🍯 Kiss 💋 POT 🍯 PCI/DES: with device removal post-procedure (via single pre-close Perclose)…
January 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
3/3 3/3 👍 Relevant (and excellent) editorial by @jaygirimd : (excerpt below): 🔗 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
January 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
2/3 2/3 Impella-assisted IVUS 👁️ guided LM-LAD-LCX DK Culotte (POT 🍯 Kiss 💋 POT 🍯) PCI/Shockwave ⚡️IVL/DES and AWE (Sion Black) LAD CTO PCI/DES (2.7-3.7mm LAD, 3.1-3.7mm LCX, 4.0-4.5mm LM) 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32338608/…
January 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
2/2 Then true-lumen from Ostium into RV Marginal with Mongo wire. Then 2nd Mongo wire true lumen to RPLB via Sasuke dual-lumen microcatheter. All 3 wires visible below. Final switch to Marvel workhorse wire for IVUS 👁️ guided PCI/DES (ostium to crux)👍…
January 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
3/3 3/3 And…very very much looking forward in 2025 (and beyond) to more, smaller, stronger, better PVAD options (for both HRPCI and CS)👍…
January 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
2/3 2/3 Follow-on PVAD-assisted (with some facilitating iliac POBA) and IVUS 👁️ guided LM-LAD-LCX DK Culotte PCI/DES (3.7-4.1mm in LAD/LCX and 4.5-5.0mm in LM). Impella out and Protamine at end👍: 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32338608/ and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39445416/…
January 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
3/3 Percutaneous MCS for High-Risk PCI: Why? Who? When?…
December 29, 2024 at 2:38 PM
2/3 Follow-on PVAD-assisted and IVUS 👁️ guided LM-LAD-LCX DK Culotte PCI/DES (3.7-4.1mm in LAD/LCX and 5.0-6.0mm in LM). And…immediate post-PCI “can I go home tonight?”😂… #PercCABG
December 29, 2024 at 2:38 PM
2/2 Nice addition to prior “Management of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Complications“💥: both mandatory (IMO) at-least-annual reading (and mental-physical rehearsal as an individual and Team): 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32527193/…
December 14, 2024 at 1:38 PM