Volume 81 - CRTonline

Volume 81 (December 2025)
CORONARY

Evaluation of mid vs distal left anterior descending artery measures in coronary physiology assessment

Fazal Dalal, Yissela Escobedo, Jose Emilio Exaire, Timothy A. Mixon, ... R. Jay Widmer

Examining the relationship between monocytes and monocyte-derived ratios in post-percutaneous coronary intervention patients and their impact on coronary artery disease progression

Ilan Merdler, Kalyan R. Chitturi, Abhishek Chaturvedi, Lior Lupu, ... Ron Waksman

Hybrid coronary revascularization versus traditional coronary artery bypass grafting for left main coronary artery disease

Elsa Hebbo, Madeleine Barker, Daniel A. Gold, Malika Elhage Hassan, ... Pratik B. Sandesara

Exploring the relationship between chronic total occlusions and mortality in coronary artery disease

Joakim Sundström, Mohammed Mohammed, Antros Louca, Aidin Rawshani, ... Truls Råmunddal

Editorial: Chronic total occlusion and survival: The never-ending debate

Sant Kumar, Lorenzo Azzalini

Bifurcation percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Analysis from the PROGRESS-BIFURCATION registry

Dimitrios Strepkos, Michaella Alexandrou, Deniz Mutlu, Pedro E.P. Carvalho, ... Emmanouil S. Brilakis

Impact of connective tissue disease features on patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Sant Kumar, George Bcharah, Mahmoud Abdelnabi, Linnea M. Baudhuin, ... Fadi E. Shamoun

Drug-Coated Balloons and Stenting

Clinical outcomes of the BioMime™ morph coronary stent system for long (30 to ≤56 mm length) coronary lesions: Three-year follow-up of the Morpheus Global Registry

Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Jan-Peter Van Kuijk, Paul Knaapen, Farhat Fouladvand, ... Martino Pepe

Cutting balloon versus standard balloon for lesion preparation of drug-coated balloon treatment in de-novo coronary artery lesions: Rationale and design of the randomized NATURE trial

Masafumi Ono, Taku Asano, Masahiko Noguchi, Norihiro Kogame, ... Ken Kozuma

Comparison of drug-coated versus conventional balloons for the side branch of the bifurcation lesion - multicenter randomized controlled study - (OCVC-BIF): Design and rationale

Tomoharu Dohi, Takayuki Ishihara, Hirota Kida, Daisuke Nakamura, ... Yasushi Sakata

Serial quantitative optical coherence tomography for luminal volume changes following either paclitaxel or sirolimus coated balloon in de novo small coronary artery lesions

Akihiro Tobe, Patrick Serruys, Kotaro Miyashita, Asahi Oshima, ... Faisal Sharif

Editorial: understanding drug coated balloon treatment – not quite that simple

Bruno Scheller, Simone Fezzi

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Impact of systematic intravascular imaging on the outcomes of complex and higher-risk percutaneous coronary intervention

Enrico Poletti, Kathleen E. Kearney, Christine J. Chung, David Elison, ... Lorenzo Azzalini

Editorial: Intravascular imaging during coronary intervention. Why is there still resistance to full adoption?

John McB. Hodgson

Propensity matched analysis of single access technique for Impella-assisted unprotected left main percutaneous coronary intervention

Raef Ali Fadel, Benjamin Hofeld, Herbert D. Aronow, Ahmad Jabri, ... Pedro Villablanca

Novel risk score for patients undergoing Impella-assisted high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention

Alejandro Lemor, Tayyab Shah, Julia B. Thompson, Majd B. Protty, ... William W. O'Neill

Editorial: Predicting the peril: A novel high-risk PCI score

Niku Thapa, Aliza Ahmed, Sarah Aftab Ahmad, Nauman Khalid

Early readmissions after percutaneous mechanical circulatory support–assisted percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the nationwide readmissions database

Sean DeAngelo, Badri Aryal, Gianfranco Bittar-Carlini, Rohan Gajjar, ... Abhimanyu Saini

Procedural characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing Impella-assisted high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions in the IMPELLA-PL registry

Aleksandra Gąsecka, Arkadiusz Pietrasik, Tomasz Pawłowski, Jerzy Sacha, ... Janusz Kochman

DISPARITIES

Sex-related differences in hospital outcomes after balloon aortic valvuloplasty

Fatima Lakhani, Bertrand Ebner, Chetan Yarlagadda, Polydoros Kampaktsis, Nikolaos Spilias

Racial and ethnic disparities in the prevalence, outcomes, and management of infective endocarditis in the United States

Taha Mansoor, Ali bin Abdul Jabbar, Siddharth Agarwal, Mahmoud Ismayl, ... Santhosh K.G. Koshy

Editorial: Beyond the valve: Racial disparities and structural burdens in infective endocarditis

Vitor Emer Egypto Rosa, Carlos M. Campos

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Association between pathophysiological coronary artery disease patterns and perivascular adipose tissue density

Chieh Yang Koo, Carlos Collet, Kazumasa Ikeda, Daniel Munhoz, ... Takuya Mizukami

Characteristics and outcomes of Black patients with wild type transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

Jason Z. Li, Meredith M. Njus, Connor P. Oates, Tania A. Vora, ... Farooq H. Sheikh

True bifurcation lesions should only be studied in bifurcation research

Mohammad Reza Movahed

Response to the Letter to the Editor: The use of the Medina coronary bifurcation classification…

Dimitrios Strepkos, Emmanouil S. Brilakis

REVIEW ARTICLES

Acoustic-based systems for the evaluation of coronary artery disease: A systematic literature review

Serge Korjian, George S. Chrysant, Suzanne J. Baron

Disparities in access, utilization, and outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention in Hispanics compared to non-Hispanic Whites in the United States: A comprehensive review

Eric C.H. Leung, James C. Blankenship, Carolina Ponce Orellana, Deirdre Hill, Bharath Yarlagadda

Artificial intelligence-driven techniques for interventional cardiology: A current appraisal

Debabrata Dash, Umanshi Dash, Batool Abu-Dakka

THE LAST WORD WITH SPENCER KING

A disruptive intervention

Spencer B. King III

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