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Burt Cohen, editor of the web's most extensive independent resource on stents & angioplasty for cardiologists & patients since 1997. #AngioHistory #BeforeGoogle #CardioSky
Fun note: today, January 16 is also my birthday, so I guess I was born to write about this field 🤣!
January 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Fun note: today, January 16 is also my birthday, so I guess I was born to write about this field 🤣!
I would have gotten 75%, but NYT rejected Puff Daddy and Sean Colmes, saying his name was Diddy!! I call foul.
December 29, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I would have gotten 75%, but NYT rejected Puff Daddy and Sean Colmes, saying his name was Diddy!! I call foul.
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'Coronary lithotripsy is safe and effective in increasing lumen and stent dimensions in underexpanded stents secondary to heavily calcified lesions' #IVL #lithotripsy #cardiosky #ctopci
eurointervention.pcronline.com/article/coro...
eurointervention.pcronline.com/article/coro...
Coronary lithotripsy for the treatment of underexpanded stents: the international; multicentre CRUNCH registry
This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of intravascular lithotripsy for treating resistant stent underexpansion in 70 patients. IVL significantly increased stent expansion and lumen dimensions w...
eurointervention.pcronline.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM
'Coronary lithotripsy is safe and effective in increasing lumen and stent dimensions in underexpanded stents secondary to heavily calcified lesions' #IVL #lithotripsy #cardiosky #ctopci
eurointervention.pcronline.com/article/coro...
eurointervention.pcronline.com/article/coro...
Gruentzig died in 1985. I believe the centennial you mention is that of the American Heart Association. Gruentzig did the 1st coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 1977, but it was radiologist Charles Dotter who came up with the concept & did the 1st peripheral angioplasty in 1964; he also coined the term.
December 7, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Gruentzig died in 1985. I believe the centennial you mention is that of the American Heart Association. Gruentzig did the 1st coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 1977, but it was radiologist Charles Dotter who came up with the concept & did the 1st peripheral angioplasty in 1964; he also coined the term.
I've got more thoughts on the results of my poll on X, but they'll have to wait since I spent the day clearing my head of all platforms, except this one:
December 5, 2024 at 4:05 AM
I've got more thoughts on the results of my poll on X, but they'll have to wait since I spent the day clearing my head of all platforms, except this one:
Actually, the purpose of my survey specifically was to poll those folks on X and get a read on where they are at.
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Actually, the purpose of my survey specifically was to poll those folks on X and get a read on where they are at.
Sharing this at the other place, hoping more #interventional #cardiologists hop over.
November 30, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Sharing this at the other place, hoping more #interventional #cardiologists hop over.
** For now our videos are on Twitter/X because of BlueSky's limits on video length/size; hopefully this will change in the near future 😉
November 17, 2024 at 11:00 PM
** For now our videos are on Twitter/X because of BlueSky's limits on video length/size; hopefully this will change in the near future 😉