Athanasios Sakalidis

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist
'Ippokrateio' General Hospital of Athens - Vyronas, Greece

Latest contributions

Devices combination for calcified lesion

20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025

Discover effective device combinations and strategies for managing heavily calcified coronary lesions. This session covers lesion planning using coronary orbit mapping, OCT-guided calcium node identification, rotatripsy techniques, and approaches to complex ostial right coronary artery occlusions, providing practical solutions to challenging calcium riddles.

Devices combination for calcified lesion

DCB in de novo lesions: new valid option?

20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025

Explore the emerging role of drug-coated balloons (DCB) in treating de novo coronary lesions. This session discusses complexity management, comparisons with drug-eluting stents (DES), and the potential of DCBs as valuable alternatives, especially in high bleeding risk patients.

DCB in de novo lesions: new valid option?

Challenging scenarios in STEMI

14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024

This session features selected clinical case submissions highlighting challenging scenarios in the management of STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) patients. Participants will learn about complex cases, such as left main time bomb, coronary anomalies, simultaneous two-vessel acute coronary thrombosis, and mechanical complications. The session includes case presentations...

Challenging scenarios in STEMI

Intervention around arterial hypertension

18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023

Explore the realm of interventions in the context of arterial hypertension in this session: witness the remote haemodynamic monitoring of heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension, uncover the case of unilateral renal atrophy four years after renal sympathetic denervation, break the "boundaries" posed by calcification in renovascular hypertension,...

Intervention around arterial hypertension

Physiological assessment of epicardial vessels and the microcirculation

16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023

Need a refresher on this case-based session focusing on the physiological assessment of epicardial vessels and microcirculation?  Check these slides highlighting some important studies on the subject.

Physiological assessment of epicardial vessels and the microcirculation