Volume 84 - CRTonline

Volume 84 (March 2026)
INTRAVASCULAR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Intravascular brachytherapy versus drug-coated balloons for in-stent restenosis: A two-center two-strategy comparison

Gal Sella, Gera Gandelman, Alex Blatt, Jacob George, ... Alpesh Shah

Editorial: Drug-coated balloons versus brachytherapy in patients with in-stent restenosis

Fernando Alfonso, Javier Cuesta, Ron Waksman

Comparative efficacy and safety of latest generation ultrathin and thin biodegradable polymer vs. durable polymer drug-eluting stents in small vessel coronary artery disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sebastian Jaramillo, Vinicius Bittar de Pontes, Juan Alejandro Pinilla, Francesco Stabile, ... Philippe Garot

Editorial: Do biodegradable polymer stents have large impact in small vessels?

Kazuhiro Fujiyoshi, Rika Kawakami, Aloke V. Finn

Long-term outcomes of hydrodynamic ultra-thin strut sirolimus-eluting stent with fluoropolymer containing triflusal: VELAZQUEZ-EPIC26 study

Jose Antonio Linares Vicente, Fermín Sainz Laso, Juan Manuel Casanova Sandoval, Jose Ramón Rumoroso Cueva, ... Jose María De la Torre Hernández

Editorial: Triflusal-coated hydrodynamic sirolimus-eluting stent: In search of perfection?

Manel Sabaté, Marta Sabaté-Tormos

A pharmacokinetic comparison between three drug delivery devices in porcine coronary arteries

Takamasa Tanaka, Rika Kawakami, Tatsuya Shiraki, Takafumi Nakayama, ... Aloke V. Finn

Characteristic adverse events with the Arrow® AC3™ Optimus™ intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP): An analysis of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration MAUDE database from 2017 to 2025

Own Khraisat, Triston Messer, Waleed Ismail, Ahmad Alqaseer, ... Pranaychandra Vaidya

Editorial: MAUDE analysis of Arrow® AC3 Optimus™ intra-aortic balloon pump

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

CORONARY PHYSIOLOGY

Validation of a novel scoring tool for assessment of the severity of coronary disease and ischaemia burden to predict major adverse cardiac events at 5 years in the 3V-FFR FRIENDS population

Mohamed Kira, Hussein Bashar, Lavinia Gabara, Mohamed Aboulassad, ... Nick Curzen

Editorial: Measuring what matters: Integrating coronary severity and ischemia to predict outcomes

Beni Rai Verma, Brian C. Case

Diagnostic and prognostic utility of fractional flow reserve for in-stent restenosis

Malek Al-Hawwas, Srikanth Vallurupalli, Sandeep Randhawa, Abdul Hakeem, ... Barry F. Uretsky

Editorial: Utility of FFR for in-stent restenosis: Biology trumps physiology

Morton J. Kern, Arnold H. Seto

CORONARY, CTO

Periprocedural myocardial injury after recanalization of chronically occluded right coronary arteries, relation to side-branch occlusion and procedural technique

Kenji Yaginuma, Thanu Subramoniam, Gerald S. Werner

Editorial: The role of high sensitivity troponin T in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention

Dimitrios Strepkos, Yader Sandoval, Emmanouil S. Brilakis

VALVE AND STRUCTURAL

Comparison between severe R-L and R-NC raphe-type bicuspid aortic valve stenosis treated with TAVI: insights from the international AD HOC Registry

Andrea Viceré, Won-Keun Kim, Andrea Zito, Tommaso Fabris, ... Andrea Buono

Editorial: When one less makes all more challenging

Francesca Ciliberti, Emanuele Sagazio, Marco Zimarino

Intracardiac versus transesophageal echocardiographic guidance for left atrial appendage occlusion: Design and rationale of the ICE-TEE trial

Karim Al-Azizi, Sibi Thomas, Mohamad Bader Abo Hajar, Taylor Pickering, ... Srini Potluri

Editorial: ICE versus TEE: Redefining image guidance for left atrial appendage occlusion

Grant W. Reed, Evan H. Whitehead

Meta-analysis of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair vs surgery for secondary mitral regurgitation

Sahib Singh, Muhammad Asim Shabbir, Nidhish Tiwari, Kevin Bliden, ... Scott W. Lundgren

Outcomes of same-day discharge after left atrial appendage closure with and without pre-discharge transthoracic echocardiography

Prasana Ramesh, Uneza Khawaja, Chidubem Ezenna, Sudhi Reddy, ... Amir Lotfi

Editorial: Do we still need routine pre-discharge echocardiography after LAAC?

Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Ibrahim Inanc

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Drug-coated balloons and the case for a metal-sparing hybrid PCI strategy: A modern view

Khalid Sawalha, Malek Alaiwah, Nitesh Gautam, Mohammad Alqarqaz

Clinical utilization of high-frequency optical coherence tomography in large coronary arteries

Emma Caron, Yasemin Ciftcikal, Matthew Cannata, Doosup Shin, ... Evan Shlofmitz

REVIEW ARTICLES

Safety of cardioversion without anticoagulation in patients' status post left atrial appendage occlusion: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Khalid Sawalha, Mohammad Alakchar, Mamas A. Mamas, Dana Johnson, ... Andrew M. Goldsweig

Role of intravenous P2Y12 inhibition in high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention

Megha Prasad, Srihari S. Naidu, Mir B. Basir, Wayne B. Batchelor, Hayder Hashim

THE LAST WORD WITH SPENCER KING

Two roads to visualize the left atrial appendage – Does it make a difference?

Spencer B. King

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