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Can’t stand heavy metal: how to treat an ACS with severe metal allergy?

17 Mar 2025

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Francesco Costa

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Antonio Muñoz Garcia

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Alberto Piserra

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Juan Horacio Alonso Briales

Can’t stand heavy metal: how to treat an ACS with severe metal allergy?

Precision PCI in the era of AI and multimodality imaging

13 Jan 2025

Nailing the ostium of LAD, although technically challenging, can be precisely done with mandatory intracoronary imaging. It is essential to rule out disease extension into left main artery as, otherwise, cross over LM-LAD stenting strategy would be preferable. CTCA can help the interventionist plan the PCI,...

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Fawaz Bardooli

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Tajammul Hussain Hakimuddin

Precision PCI in the era of AI and multimodality imaging

RCA hydraulic dissection: what to do?

06 Jan 2025

Any coronary intervention can be compromised by an iatrogenic hydraulic dissection: find out how to manage it with dissection stenting!

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Pavel Somov

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Daniil Ylbashev

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Shamil Chotchaev

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Dmitriy Marchak

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Arkhip Matusov

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Aleksei Litvinov

Stepwise OCT for treatment optimization in provisional approach of bifurcated coronary lesions

10 Jan 2025

OCT provides information of the accuracy of every maneuver performed during the treatment of bifurcation lesions. We can clearly see if the POT achieves proximal stent apposition, if the side branch wire crosses through the correct cell, and the impact of final kissing-balloon inflation on stent geometry.

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Javier Suarez de Lezo

Stepwise OCT for treatment optimization in provisional approach of bifurcated coronary lesions

Supplementary super-high pressure balloon-based plaque modification after intravascular lithotripsy

02 Jul 2024

Additional balloon-based plaque modification after ineffective intravascular lithotripsy of a heavily calcified ostial CX

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Kambis Mashayekhi

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Fabiola Costa

Supplementary super-high pressure balloon-based plaque modification after intravascular lithotripsy

Migration of the stent in the left main stem due to poor lesion preparation

23 May 2024

Poor lesion preparation is an important factor contributing to serious complications in PCI of heavily calcified lesions. We present a case of a stent loss in a left main coronary artery followed by its successful retrieval.

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Krzysztof Pujdak

Migration of the stent in the left main stem due to poor lesion preparation

PCI for in-stent restenosis complicated by neoatherosclerosis dissection

30 Apr 2024

Did you know that neoatherosclerosis (in the context of in-stent restenosis (ISR)) can suffer dissection, just like any native coronary artery, when balloon dilatation is performed?