Snare-Assisted LAceration of Subintimal Hematoma (SLASH): A Novel Technique for Side Branch Preservation in Bifurcation Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Background: Side branch compromise due to extraplaque hematoma often complicates chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) involving a bifurcation at the distal cap.

Aims: To evaluate the feasibility and short-term outcomes of Snare-Assisted LAceration of Subintimal Hematoma (SLASH), a novel technique designed to mitigate this problem.

Methods: SLASH involves retrograde true lumen wiring across the distal bifurcation into a distal side branch, followed by successful antegrade dissection/re-entry into the same branch.

Left Ventricular Thrombus of Unknown Etiology in a Patient With COVID-19 Disease With No Significant Medical History.

The incidence of left ventricular thrombus is relatively low. Ventricular thrombi typically manifest in patients with reduced ejection fraction and post myocardial infarction [1]. The impact of COVID-19's hypercoagulability state is presented here.

Complete Atrioventricular Nodal Block Due to Malignancy-Related Hypercalcemia.

Although rare, severe hypercalcemia can cause significant conduction system alterations, including complete atrioventricular block.

Iron deficiency and hemolytic anemia reversed by ventricular septal myectomy.

Hemolytic anemia has been reported to occur in the setting of aortic stenosis and prosthetic heart valves, but much more rarely in association with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC). Of the few descriptions of hemolytic anemia secondary to HC, all but one case involved bacterial endocarditis contributing to left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. We present the case of a 67-year-old man with recurrent hemolytic anemia and HC, without infective endocarditis.