Current Issue: July/August 2008

Chief Medical Editor's Page
Ted E. Feldman, MD, FSCAI

NEWS
Regulatory Update

Literature Highlights

Industry News

VESSEL UPDATE: MULTIVESSEL DISEASE
Role of Multivessel Intervention in Diabetes Mellitus
By Sameer Bansilal, MD, MS; Samin Sharma, MD; and Michael Farkouh, MD, MSc

TIPS & TRICKS
Subcutaneous "Figure-of-Eight" Stitch to Achieve Hemostasis After Removal of Large-Caliber Femoral Venous Sheaths
By Jayant Bagai, MD, FACC, and David Zhao, MD

CLOSURE UPDATE 2008
Overview of Vascular Closure
By Zoltan G. Turi, MD

Assisted Compression Devices

Closure Devices

COVER STORY
Physiologic Lesion Assessment
By William F. Fearon, MD

Angiographic Characterization of Lesion Morphology
By Lloyd W. Klein, MD, and Ronald J. Krone, MD

MRI for Plaque Assessment
By Federico E. Mordini, MD; Steven Smart, MD; and Ioannis Koktzoglou, PhD

Novel Intravascular Modalities for Assessing Coronary Lesions
By Danny Dvir, MD, and Ran Kornowski, MD, FACC, FESC

DEPARTMENTS
Innovations

Conference Calendar

An Interview With Mark A. Turco, MD

Background cover image courtesy of TeraRecon, Inc., (San Mateo, CA).
Imaging modality figures courtesy of R. Kornowski.