Euro4C: who we are
Euro4C is a group of interventional cardiologists standing for Cardiac Care of Calcified and Complex patients
True to its core mission of serving the needs of each individual patient by helping the cardiovascular community share knowledge experience and practice, PCR has been welcoming and supporting communities’ initiatives all throughout its history.
It is within this spirit, and in response to a growing problem within the aging population treated by our community, that PCR welcomes Euro4C. This forum is open to all interventional cardiologists interested in providing their experience and expertise in the management of complex patients with calcified CAD.
A word from the Euro4C President Beatriz Vaquerizo (2024-2026):
Director of the Cardiology Department and Interventional cardiology Unit at Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. Associate Medicine Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
I am really excited to start this new challenge in my career. I would like to thank the PCR family and the past presidents for their support and the great work they have carried out over the last years, including during the Covid pandemic, through the extraordinary research and teaching work.
I believe that the final mission of this group is to improve treatment of patients with calcified and complex coronary lesions by:
- Aligning knowledge and experience among recognized worldwide experts in the field
- Promoting scientific research and innovation
- Promoting education and facilitating the development of "state-of-the-art" recommendations.
For my two-year term, we have defined the following main objectives for the group:
- Present the new main board with dedicated Research and Educational Working Groups
- Develop the network and the structure all over the world, including European and Non-European countries
- Promote entry into the group of young and motivated operators
- Promote an annual European Euro4C meeting
The only thing I can promise is hard work, passion and opening up the group to anyone with ideas and a desire to work in this field.
The Euro4C scope
Euro4C stands for the Cardiac Care of Calcified and Complex patients. The project has made it its mission to work on improving the clinical outcomes of complex patients with advanced, diffuse and calcified atherosclerotic CAD, often presenting in critical conditions and left ventricular dysfunction.
The Euro4C Project is concerned with the entire spectrum involved in the management of these complex disease states. Some of the challenges included in this scope are:
- Severely calcified lesions
- Left main trunk stenosis
- Severe left ventricular dysfunction requiring mechanical circulatory support and multidisciplinary Heart Team evaluation
- Severe comorbidities including chronic renal failure, respiratory disease, frailty, etc
Euro4C activities and initiatives
True to its mission, Euro4C supports the sharing of experience and expertise between peers through a set of activities. These include:
- Continuous medical education via seminars and Courses, Web-based interactions and consultation
- Practical training on bench simulators and experimental models, and off-site facilitation
- Proctoring of clinical cases by expert members of the group
- Continuous monitoring of the clinical outcomes (through the implementation of clinical studies and prospective registries)
- Development of new technologies in partnership with industry and other researchers