Chao-Wei Hwang

Interventional cardiologist, Johns Hopkins Hospital & Frederick Health Hospital. Tweets are for entertainment only. No medical advice is intended or provided.

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What do you do if your stent or balloon catheter shaft is too short to reach the lesion? (eg. during LAD PCI via long tortuous LIMA) Find out.
https://t.co/ZR5WT3YmOr

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A little leak.
Case presentation at https://t.co/H0sZQywtd1

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What do you do if your wire gets stuck or fractures?
https://t.co/rRTFnJPO4f

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Countdown of the Top 5 most popular videos on 6-in-the-A in 2021! https://t.co/HGbjuTtXUH

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Pericardiocentesis in severe pulmonary hypertension - is it really that risky?

https://t.co/uDCIJm4xxn

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Remarkable case of PCI during prolonged VF arrest (127 minutes) at a community hospital, with patient making a complete recovery.
https://t.co/4j9FlrWrvL

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What do you do if your balloon does not deflate? This is an extremely rare PCI complication, but with potentially disastrous consequences.
https://t.co/JXzcsC5Mxk

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This video is a rather unusual case of an anterior STEMI that eventually required trifurcation stenting of an unprotected left main trifurcation and use of the "trissing" technique.
https://t.co/4pnEljPxIs

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For an interventional cardiologist, coiling is a skill that's like an insurance policy: Good to have, but hope never to use it. In this video, I review a case of coronary perforation in which coiling turned out to be very handy.
https://t.co/oAkuo2AAtt

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When is a STEMI not a STEMI? When both the LAD and RCA are both acutely occluded. This video reviews an unusual case of simultaneous acute LAD and RCA occlusions.
https://t.co/ZbM3s7v55B

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Balloon-assisted microdissection (BAM), a.k.a. Grenadoplasty, is an under-utilized technique that can get you through difficult calcified lesions when atherectomy or IVL is not available. Here I discuss a case where it was useful during a STEMI.
https://t.co/2AMcc9Ye1i

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Myocardial bridges are fairly common, and sometimes angina from myocardial bridges can be hard to treat. Beta blockers are the mainstay. But if angina persists, what next? Can you stent a bridge?
https://t.co/SYFDiLdAbO

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You don't always need contrast to do PCI!
https://t.co/2uWEK9k3Ep

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Announcing my YouTube channel 6-in-the-A, https://t.co/KgYcGSJjNu
where I post regular videos on interventional cardiology and coronary artery disease.