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Antonious Attallah, MD, FACC, FSCAI
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Interventional Cardiologist| Director of #PERT @HenryFordHealth St. John, Detroit, MI |#imagefirst|#CHIP|#IVUS|#CTO||#nanocrush|CCIR IVI section editor
- Be careful with propensity matched analysis in observational studies 😂
- 60 y/o male with ALS, passed out the minute he woke up! In ED, SBP 82 mmHg. Echo in Resusc with blown-out RV -> Fluids and dopamine. CT with obstruction of both PA. CT to device time: 15 minutes. SBP 120 after thrombectomy. 1st massive rxd that way @Ascension_MI
- First ever #alphavac done at Ascension St. John hospital for the removal of 3x4 cm right atrial mass attached to permacath/RA free wall. No perfusion/ECMO needed. Manually aspirated. Skin-to-skin 30 mins case. 250 filtered and given back. Ebl 50 cc.
- Here is your #nanocrush appreciation tweet. Ivus guided using @BIOTRONIK_News Orsiro stents with excellent results. Carina MLA 11 mm2! Step-by-step tweetorial tomorrow
- Fresh back from #CTO2020 👩 with intermediate-high risk PE and impending Resp failure. CT with saddle and right main PA occlusion. Some @InariMedical t-24 suction and blood flow restored to right lung. O2 requirement are down.
- Congrats to my team @st. John Hospital for performing the first PE mechanical aspiration procedure using the #FlowTriever device for the 1st time in michigan! Pt in her 40’s acute cor pulmonale with submassives PE that occluded the right Main PA. CI 1.5. mRA 22! Felt 👍 after!
- The prayers of those beyond their 4th decade have been answered 😆 Thanks for listening @AbbottCardio
- Ok as promised here is the tweetorial using Orsiro in #nanocrush fashion for this Medina 1,1,1, Mid LAD/Diag lesion.Here is your #nanocrush appreciation tweet. Ivus guided using @BIOTRONIK_News Orsiro stents with excellent results. Carina MLA 11 mm2! Step-by-step tweetorial tomorrow
- The Dos and Dont’s of using the cat-rx device @PenVascular @knshruthi @JayMathewsMD @JayMathewsMD @kerrigjl @ShariqShamimMD @mmamas1973 @evandrofilhobr #accfit @HFHCardioFellow @BeaumontIC @waynecardio
00:00 - Really enjoyed @InariMedical new addition of the flow saver! 4 runs, tons of clot with less than 30 cc of blood loss! @Thomas_TuMD @PERTConsortium
- Pleased to perform the first CAT-12 Lighting system aspiration of an acute DVT in Michigan @Ascension_MI! Great results (aspirated all the way from pop to IVC! With less than 200 cc blood loss!). Looking forward to using it in PE as well...Torqueability is a great advantage too.
- 80 yo female with multiple admissions/evaluation for chest pain. Stress tests equivocal. Angio with mild to moderate diffuse disease. Today, she got the answer!#notcrazy @nadia_sutton @AbbottCardio @corventis @ziadalinyc @drandrewsharp @mmamas1973 @DrMarthaGulati @AnastasiaSMihai
- First high-intermediate risk in Michigan treated with the Bashir catheter as part of the #RESCUE trial. RV/LV 1.7. Did very well @Ascension_MI


























