In ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the coronary artery is completely blocked by a blood clot. It is the most serious type of heart attack. The best treatment for STEMI patients is to have the blocked artery opened by balloon inflation within 90 minutes of arriving at a hospital. The 90-minute window is called “door-to-balloon time. The shorter the door-to-balloon time, the greater the chance of survival. Treatment of this life-threatening illness is reviewed in this issue.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Timothy Henry, will cover controversies in the management of STEMI. Topics discussed in this issue include: Systems of care; false positive activation; time to treatment; in hospital STEMI; optimal antiplatelet; advanced cardiogenic shock; out of hospital cardiac arrest; and global challenges, among other topics.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Ravi S. Hira, will cover the latest updates regarding State of the Art in STEMI Care. This issue is one of four selected each year by the series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Marvin H. Eng. Topics discussed in this issue will include: Regional systems of care, Prehospital evaluation, ED management, transfers and management of inpatient STEMI, Antiplatelet therapy - discuss ADP antagonists, IIB/IIIA use, Anticoagulant therapy, Aspiration thrombectomy, Diagnosis and management of late presentation STEMI and complications, Use of fibrinolytic therapy in patients with STEMI and more.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics will explore Updates in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Curated by the series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew J. Price, this issue will cover topics and advances in the field that are relevant for practicing clinicians. This issue is one of four selected each year by Dr. Price. The volume will include articles on: Current Concepts in Intraprocedural Pharmacology During PCI; Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction in Contemporary Practice; Newer Generation Metallic Stents: Design, Performance Characteristics, and Outcomes; Distal Transradial Access for Coronary Angiography and Intervention; Clinical Outcomes Data for iFR-guided PCI; Culprit-only or Complete Revascularization During STEMI in Patients with and Without Shock; Technical Approaches to Left Main Coronary Intervention: Contemporary Best Practices; Robotic Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; Orbital Atherectomy: A Comprehensive Review; and Percutaneous revascularization of spontaneous coronary artery dissection, among others.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among US women over the age of 65, resulting in more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. Women are less likely to survive heart attacks than are men, possibly because symptoms in women may differ and may be less recognizable. In addition, women consistently tend to have worse clinical outcomes in percutaneous coronary interventions than do men. For these reasons, an issue on percutaneous interventions in women is timely.

This issue of the Interventional Cardiology Clinics edited by Michael Lee covers all key aspects of complex coronary intervention. Topics include, but are not limited to: Saphenous Vein Interventions, Atherectomy Devices for the Treatment of Calcified Lesions, Bifurcation Stenting, Chronic Total Occlusion, Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease, Management of Complications (Perforation/Dissection/Thrombosis), Antithrombotic Therapy in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, and Acute Myocardial Infarction/Thrombectomy.

In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic. Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in the field, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, edited by Sunil V. Rao, is devoted to Transradial Angiography and Intervention. Dr. Rao assembled a group of expert contributors to review the following topics: Diagnostic and Guide Catheter Selection and Manipulation for Radial Approach; Slender Approach and Sheathless Techniques; Transradial Primary PCI; Complications of Transradial Cardiac Catheterization and Management; The Transradial Learning Curve and Volume-Outcome Relationship; Strategies to Traverse the Arm and Chest Vasculature; The Transradial Approach and Antithrombotic Therapy: Rationale and Outcomes; Transradial Peripheral Arterial Procedures; and Radial Artery Access, Hemostasis and Radial Artery Occlusion.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics reviews pharmacologic agents currently used to treat patients in the cath lab. All the pharmaceutical knowledge an interventionalist needs is summarized in this handy reference.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, Guest Edited by Dr. Brian O'Neill, will focus on Mechanical Circulatory Support. This issue is one of four selected each year by the series Consulting Editor, Dr. Marvin H. Eng. Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) plays an important role in the management of a variety of patients with a range of conditions in interventional cardiology. As many times the question of MCS arises in the most critical of patients, an understanding of each of the devices along with which patients may potentially benefit is vital. This issue aims to provide a review of the various options of MCS, as well as a variety of scenarios in which MCS may play a beneficial role in the management of patients.