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Drug-Coated Balloons for Coronary Artery Disease

A discussion on the current state of drug-coated balloons and their use for the prevention of in-stent restenosis.

By Juan F. Granada, MD, and William A. Gray, MD

Do Improvements in Stent Technology Affect Stent Thrombosis?

A review of the literature on the safety of first- and second-generation drug-eluting stents.

By Amjad T. Almahameed, MD, MPH, and Donald E. Cutlip, MD

Potential Use of OCT Imaging in Clinical Practice

From preintervention to postprocedure follow-up, the utility of optical coherence tomography assessment is examined.

By Daniel Chamié,, MD, and Ricardo A. Costa, MD, PhD

Bleeding Avoidance Strategies

Experts offer their experience with acute coronary syndrome protocol and how they approach access sites and handle bleeding events.

With Andrey Espinoza, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Paul A. Gurbel, MD; Sunil V. Rao, MD; and Steven J. Yakubov, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Crossover Balloon Approach for Vascular Closure After TAVR

Experts share their institutions' protocols for using this technique.

By Michael H. Salinger, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Hyde M. Russell, MD; Susheel Kodali, MD; and Lowell Satler, MD

Programmatic Strategies to Reduce Complications and Improve Length of Stay in TAVR

How to create clinical pathways that inform and transform care for patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

By Denise Busman, MSN

Pulmonary Embolism Risk Stratification: Progress, Gaps, and the Path Forward

Key developments, lessons learned, where current tools fall short, and what’s in the pipeline.

By Frances Mae West, MD, MSc, FACP; Thomas M. Todoran, MD, MSc; Andrew J. P. Klein, MD; and James Horowitz, MD