PCR @ ESC Congress 2019 and the World Congress of Cardiology: the interventional cardiology perspective!

Social media coverage and condensed take-home messages from #ESCCongress 2019!

Updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Scientific Sessions of interest to Interventional Cardiologists during ESC Congress 2019.

• THEMIS - Main results of the effect of Ticagrelor on health outcomes in diabetes mellitus patients intervention study
• COMPLETE - Revascularization with multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardioal infarction
• ISAR REACT 5 - Ticagrelor versus prasugrel in patients with acute coronary syndrome
• SYNTAXES - Ten-year survival after coronary artery bypass grafting versus percutaneous coronary intervention: the SYNTAX Extended Survival study
• MITRA-FR - 2 year follow-up of the MITRA-FR study, a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of percutaneous mitral valve repair in secondary mitral regurgitation
• ENTRUST-AF PCI - Edoxaban-based versus vitamin-K-antagonist-based antithrombotic regimen following successful coronary stenting in atrial fibrillation patients

Mirvat Al Asnag, Luis Ortega Paz, Francesco Costa, Nicole Karam, and Dejan Milasinovic  provided their take on what was of interest from the ESC Congress 2019 in Paris, France.

New in 2019: the PCRonline #ESCCongress 2019 #SoMe team provided #CardioTwitter coverage live from Paris!

This year, our special #ESCCongress 2019 #SoMe team provided #CarddioTwitter coverage from a selection of sessions. Keep on following them (and @PCRonline)

 
ESC Congress 2019 video interviews

PCR-EAPCI Textbook: spotlight on the latest updates!

Edited by Eric Eeckhout, Patrick W. Serruys, William Wijns, Alec Vahanian, Marc van Sambeek and Rodney De Palma, the PCR-EAPCI Textbook includes over 110 illustrated chapters dedicated to diagnosis, coronary interventions, structural heart disease, and peripheral interventions.Regular updates are released throughout the year, making it the essential patient-centred reference book for all interventional cardiologists.

Two new chapters were released at the ESC Congress 2019:

• Computational non-invasive physiological assessment of coronary disease - Julien Adjedj, Jelmer Westra, Daixin Ding, Junqing Yang, William Wijns, Shengxian Tu
• The high bleeding risk patient – Róisín Colleran, Philip Urban