Alejandro Ricalde
Latest contributions
Integrating the newest valve guidelines into daily clinical reality
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Integrate the 2025 EACTS valve guidelines into your clinical practice with a focus on valvular heart disease management tailored to Latin American realities. This session reviews the most relevant updates on aortic stenosis management and transcatheter approaches for mitral and tricuspid valves.
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How to optimise outcome in valve-in-valve and valve-in-mitral annular calcification patients
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
This session explores how to optimise outcomes in valve-in-valve and valve-in-mitral annular calcification procedures. Clinical evidence is combined with real case demonstrations, highlighting step-by-step approaches, practical strategies, and techniques to reduce risks such as left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in high-risk patients.
Precision in mitral TEER
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Join this live educational session from Bordeaux University Hospital to gain expert insights into mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). Explore optimal timing and clinical decision-making for mitral regurgitation treatment, and discover how the PASCAL Precision system enhances procedural precision across diverse mitral anatomies. Witness real-time strategies,...
The complexity of transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore the complexities of transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions through a series of case studies tackling challenging clinical scenarios. Discover therapeutic options, including TEER in patients with pacemaker leads, imaging strategies with ICE, transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement using Evoque and LuxValve devices, as well as simpler approaches...
Innovation session: new techniques and devices in Latin America
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Join this innovation-focused session highlighting new structural heart devices and techniques emerging from Latin America. Review real-world cases including mechanical valve re-intervention, TMVR, novel mitral TEER devices, and first clinical experiences with a new self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve in small annuli. Gain valuable procedural and clinical...
Best companions's case on complications in calcified lesions: episode 2
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Join this session examining complex complications in calcified lesion interventions. Learn from cases featuring controversial approaches that successfully resolved issues, coronary perforation management, retrograde iatrogenic dissection after lithotripsy, and algorithmic bailout strategies essential for navigating challenging calcified lesion complications.
Unconventional situations and complications during cardiovascular interventions
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Explore this session to gain expert tips and practical strategies for managing unexpected complications during cardiovascular interventions. Learn how to anticipate and avoid complications in conventional procedures and discover different approaches to tackle challenging situations in the cathlab through detailed case discussions involving PCI, TAVI, and...
DCB after REC-CAGEFREE 1 - Vulnerable plaque PCI after PREVENT
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Reflect on the impact of recent trials REC-CAGEFREE 1 and PREVENT on the use of drug-coated balloons (DCB) and preventive PCI for vulnerable plaque. This session includes case discussions highlighting DCB applications and insights from cutting-edge clinical studies.
Complex PCI in calcific coronary artery disease - LIVE Case
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
A 76-year-old male patient presented with a significant history of coronary artery disease: CABG with LIMA/LAD and RIMA/OM (1996), RCA PCI with BVS (2016), OM PCI (2017), RIMA occlusion and OM retenosis treated with DCB (2022) with preserved LV. He was admitted for pre-operative evaluation prior...
TAVI hotline: long-term registry data
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session presents and discusses long-term registry data on various aspects of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). It covers topics such as the surgical versus transcatheter approach in combined coronary and aortic valve disease, long-term outcomes of TAVI versus surgical aortic valve replacement, and registry data...
Complex scenarios beyond complex interventions, time to take multiple factors into account
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Undilatable calcified lesion with balloon - LIVE case
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
A 66-year-old male with a history of PAD, COPD, diabetes, and an LV function of 44% presented with unstable angina. Coronary angiography revealed a severe and heavily calcified RCA lesion undilatable with a balloon. The patient was referred to a centre specializing in calcified lesion treatment.
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Challenging scenarios in STEMI and TAVI from Mexico
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
This session looks at how to treat the following 3 types of cases: STEMI with MVD, AAA and TAVR, and late coronary obstruction after ViV TAVR. Analyze patients' conditions, consider the questions they raise, then find out about their final treatments.
EuroPCR 2023 Hotlines / Late-Breaking Trials: TAVI
16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Discover the conclusions of various studies and registries about TAVI: 5-year outcomes with the ACURATE neo2 valve: the Neo AS CE-mark study; TAVR in patients with cardiogenic shock which evaluated outcomes of consecutive TAVRs in patients with CS using contemporary SAPIEN 3 and SAPIEN 3 ultra...
A COVID(+) patient with STEMI and prior PCI
27 May 2020
Flavio Ribichini and Thomas Cuisset discuss a case of a COVID(+) patient with STEMI and prior PCI presented by Alejandro Ricalde.
Update on management of complex calcified coronary lesions
23 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover updates on the management of complex calcified coronary lesions, to better understand which cases may be almost impossible to stent, to learn techniques to make stenting possible, and more!
Technical tips and tricks to overcome challenging left main scenarios
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn various technical tips and tricks to overcome challenging left main scenarios, such as floating wire, modified kissing-stenting, and more!
