Anja Øksnes
Latest contributions
Calcified un-dilatable lesions in ACS: what should I do?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Address the challenges of severely calcified undilatable lesions during acute coronary syndrome PCI. This session reviews the impact of coronary calcification on PCI strategy, highlights pitfalls in lesion preparation, and presents detailed case studies demonstrating effective treatment approaches.
Best companions's case on complications in calcified lesions
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into challenging cases involving complications in calcified coronary lesions managed with rotational atherectomy. Topics include unique uses of Rotablation, managing burr entrapment, complex calcium and tortuosity combinations, and addressing perforations resulting from stent optimization and burr retrieval in highly calcified vessels.
Calcified nodules: a different beast?
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session offers a comprehensive exploration of calcified nodules, a challenging entity in PCI. Learn to identify these nodules with IVUS and OCT, understand their unique treatment challenges, and select optimal plaque modification tools through detailed case discussions.
Euro4C Team
19 Jun 2024
Discover the individuals driving the Euro4C Group, including the main board, national coordinators, research and education groups, and the dedicated editorial team!
Upgrade to retrograde: when and how?
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session delves into the decision-making for transitioning to a retrograde approach in CTO PCI, covering effective techniques and safety considerations for successful outcomes, through cases involving antegradely induced hematomas and ambiguous CTO caps, alongside severe distal atherosclerosis.
CTO PCI: what a surprise!
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session, comprising selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions, explores various challenging and unexpected scenarios encountered during CTO PCI procedures. It includes case presentations and discussions on guide wire entrapment and removal, subintimal wiring, revitalizing hope in a low ejection fraction patient, physiologic and hemodynamic considerations...
The post-CABG CTO challenge
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Join the speakers as they navigate through the intricacies of this post-CABG CTO challenge, exploring its impact, management strategies, and potential avenues for improved patient outcomes. Enhance your understanding of this critical issue and discover different approaches to address it through case-based presentations.
Procedural challenges, difficulties and pitfalls in CTO PCI
16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
How would you treat this 68-year-old man who presented for a third attempt at CTO RCA PCI, this 73-year-old patient with proximal RCA CTO, or this 72-year-old man with complex calcified RCA CTO? Get answers in this session!
Cracking calcium: best practices to integrate intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) into your calcium management algorithms
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Consult this session to learn about the best practices and tips to optimise application of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in coronary vasculature, and to discover some new calcium management algorithms to improve PCI outcomes as well as the latest technological advancements of peripheral IVL for pre-TAVI access.
Role of OCT in multivessel PCI
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
How would you treat a 67-year-old male patient with dyslipidemia and family history of CAD, referred for coronary angiography because of severe, significant silent myocardial ischemia? Watch this LIVE case from Toulouse, France, to find out what your peers' choices are.
What's new in CTO PCI - a closer look on indications, anatomy and procedural planning
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
