What's new in Interventional Cardiology

Lucas Lauder and Felix Mahfoud provide a summary of the ESC Guidelines on elevated blood pressure and hypertension presented by John William McEvoy and Rhian Touyz at ESC Congress 2024 in London.

In coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL) PCI, intracoronary imaging (ICI) is preferred for its superior outcomes over angiography alone, but its adoption is limited by education and technology access barriers, resulting in most CBL PCIs still using angiographic guidance only.

Davide Capodanno presents notable trial updates, coronary devices, and key takeaways from EuroPCR 2024. Highlights include the SOLVE-TAVI and IDEAL-LM trials at 5 years, BIOADAPTOR at 2 years, advancements in drug-coated balloons and DES, as well as insights from REC-CAGEFREE II, LANDMARK, and NOTION-2.

References

• SOLVE-TAVI: Feistritzer HJ, et al....

In this video, Thomas Cuisset and Davide Capodanno discuss with Dejan Milasinovic key moments in coronary intervention at EuroPCR 2024. They highlight innovations in intravascular imaging education, featuring the Imaging Learning Center and its hands-on workstations, and key studies like DOCTOR-LM, following in the footsteps of OCTOBER or BIFURCATION. Educating...

Jonathan Curio provides his take on the PROTECTED TAVR study which was presented by Samir R. Kapadia at TCT 2022. The aim was to evaluate whether TAVR with cerebral embolic protection would reduce the rate of clinical stroke in transfemoral TAVR.

The authors investigated whether iatrogenic atrial septal defect closure post-transcatheter mitral valve edge-to-edge repair is superior to conservative therapy, and whether outcomes (death/heart failure hospitalization) differ between patients with and without an iASD post-TMVR.

Is COVID responsible for myocardial injury (including STEMI) or is it an innocent bystander? View this case of a male patient, 70+ years with clear COVID symptoms for several days, presenting with chest pain starting about 3h before admission. Past history: permanent Afib on Eliquis.