COVID-19: articles and content from the PCRonline Community

In this interview at EuroPCR 2024, William Wijns, Niek Klazinga, and Christopher Cook discuss the RESIL-Card initiative, which emerged from the disruption to cardiovascular care during COVID-19. The initiative aims to use this experience to develop a readiness test for future crises. Extensive data has been collected,...

Watch Luis Ortega Paz's interview with David Berg as part of the ESC 2022 Congress coverage, and find out more about the COVID-PACT trial, which aims to study antithrombotic strategies in critically ill COVID-19 patients. Learn more about the study design (population, primary endpoint, safety criteria...)...

Across Europe, during the COVID pandemic, there was a big reduction in patients presenting for primary PCI. Interviewed by Nicola Ryan, Mamas Mamas summarises the key points from the We CARE study which analysed the effect at the population level in terms of heart failure diagnosis, cost...

The main goal of the randomized GUIDE-HF trial was to assess the ability of continuous PAP monitoring to improve outcomes in patients with heart failure NYHA class II-IV and a HF hospitalization within previous 12 months or elevated BNP/NT-proBNP. 

An active surveillance programme was initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Health to ascertain the possible causal relationship between the vaccine and myocarditis and evaluate incidence, clinical relevance, and related outcomes.

Watch this session to discover various interesting STEMI cases, such as a multivessel PCI in an acute inferior wall STEMI and coronavirus disease 2019 survivor patient, a cardiogenic shock due to RVMI in MVD with PPCI in RCA, a multimodal thrombo-aspiration in PPCI using pharmaco-invasive strategy in...

Watch this session to discover various papers in STEMI, and learn more about the higher rate of heart failure and in-hospital mortality in STEMI patients during COVID-19 era, the management and outcomes of STEMI patients with current technology, the outcomes of a registry regarding cardiogenic shock...

Giulio Stefanini and Emanuele Barbato take the opportunity of World Heart Day to review the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cardiovascular care at a time when the pandemic has highlighted the gaps between different health systems.

Vijay Kunadian summarizes the key points of the LBT session of the ESC congress 2021 held on Sunday, 29 August focusing on the Lancet Commission to reduce the global burden of heart disease in women by 2030.

Learn more about the impact of COVID on the practice of interventional cardiologists with this new chapter in the PCR-EAPCI Textbook: The COVID Pandemic and interventional practice" by J. Tafur Soto et al.