May 8th, 2014
Orbital Atherectomy Revisited
Kush Agrawal, MD
Kush Agrawal recounts a live case demonstration of orbital atherectomy that he observed at the CRT symposium.
November 6th, 2013
Perspective On the First New Atherectomy Device in 20 Years
Kush Agrawal, MD
The 2011 ACCF/AHA/SCAI PCI guidelines give rotational atherectomy (RA) a Class IIa LOE C recommendation as reasonable to use in cases where heavily calcified coronary lesions either cannot be crossed by a predilation balloon or if crossed cannot be adequately predilated prior to successful stent delivery. Furthermore, routine use of RA is Class III, contraindicated, […]