Calcified lesions

An elective right coronary artery PCI was scheduled in an 83-year-old gentleman. Due to the presence of severely diffuse and calcified disease, rotational atherectomy was decided, but the burr got entrapped in the severely calcified and tortuous proximal segment of the artery...

An 81-year-old male underwent PCI of an extensively calcified LAD coronary artery. Lesion preparation was done using cutting and scoring balloons, followed by drug-eluting stent implantation. Despite serial dilations, including the use of a very High-Pressure NC balloon, stent expansion could not be achieved...

An 83-year-old male admitted for heart failure and chest pain, needs to undergo TA-TAVI because of severe PAD and has concomitant CAD with critical calcified lesion of the ULM-LAD...

View this case of an 81-year-old man with severely calcified critical stenosis at ostial-prox RCA...

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View this case of a 79-year-old woman complaining of atypical chest pain for 3 months, with diabetes and end-stage chronic kidney disease. Coronary CT revealed diffuse calcifications BUT critical coronary artery stenosis was excluded...

View this case of a 57-year-old woman, with a negative cardiovascular history, but who is a heavy smoker (40xday >20 years) and hypertensive, and who suffered typical chest pain at rest. She arrived at the Emergency Room of a peripheral hospital without a cathlab facility. Her...

View this case of a 79-year-old male with a diagnosis of hepatocarcinoma and severe AVS, mild mitral regurgitation and AF under oral anticoagulation who was admitted for TAVI…

View this very uncommon case in which balloons do not expand even after a rather aggressive rotational atherectomy: a 43-year-old male with hypertension, smoking and dyslipidemia presents with total occlusion of proximal left anterior descending artery with fresh thrombus...

View this case of an 85-year-old woman, hypertensive under medical therapy with no previous medical or surgical history, who called the emergency services about chest pain and shortness of breath...

This is the case of an 84-year-old woman in good general condition, with severe AVS on medical management, chronic atrial fibrillation and admitted with heart failure and chest pain...

This is the case of an 83-year-old woman with arterial hypertension, hypercolesterolemia, onset of continuous chest pain at rest with anterior STEMI on ECG and medicated with ASA and Ticagrelor and transferred to the cathlab.

Watch this LIVE demonstration from National University Heart Centre (Singapore) to discover how they managed the case of a 69 years-old male with diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia suffering from a calcified triple vessel disease.

Consult this session to discover the key clinical data and angiographic reference of a patient presenting with calcified left main lesion PCI.

A 75-year-old male with multiple risk factors and a history of NSTEMI is admitted for staged PCI to his left main bifurcation. His vessels are diffusely calcified…

This is the case of a 68 year old female patient, autonomous and physically robust. She has been diabetic for 10 years, but without cardio-vascular antecedents. She was admitted for chest pain at rest, lasting around 70 minutes with signs of STEMI in the inferior leads...

This is the case of an 84 year old man, widower, with initial cognitive decay, living with his sons and daugthers - non autonomous but physically robust. He was admitted for chest pain at rest after weeks of worsening angina, and underwent coronary angiography within 48h...