Daniele Giacoppo

Daniele Giacoppo

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist
Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco - Catania, Italy

Latest contributions

NEO-MINDSET: Early withdrawal of aspirin after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome

02 Sep 2025

Daniele Giacoppo reports and provides his perspective on the main results of the ambitious NEOMINDSET trial, presented by Pedro Lemos from the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil, during a Late Breaking Trials session at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid, and simultaneously published in the New...

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PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2025: the interventional cardiology perspective!

26 Jul 2025

Stay updated with the latest in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2025!

Insights into emerging prognostic predictors for patients with coronary artery disease

20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025

Gain insights into emerging prognostic predictors for coronary artery disease patients, including endothelial shear stress as a cardiovascular risk marker, impacts of intravascular imaging stratified by disease pattern, correlations between diastolic blood pressure and SYNTAX score, and long-term wall shear stress risk prediction from the FAME...

Insights into emerging prognostic predictors for patients with coronary artery disease

PCRonline @ ACC.25 Scientific Sessions

07 Feb 2025

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology 2025 Scientific Sessions #ACC25

PCR @ TCT 2024 - Get the international perspective!

11 Oct 2024

Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, get the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2024 - check out the list below.

INFINITY-SWEDEHEART - Percutaneous coronary intervention with a bioadaptor compared to a contemporary drug eluting stent- one year primary outcomes

03 Sep 2024

Daniele Giacoppo provides his take on the main results of the INFINITY-SWEDEHEART trial presented by David Erlinge at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

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PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2024: the interventional cardiology perspective!

26 Jul 2024

What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2024!

Calcified coronary lesions: procedural techniques

15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024

This session, comprising selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions, focuses on procedural techniques for the management of calcified coronary lesions. It will feature various complex cases, including in-stent shave and debulk, damned coronary nodules, rotatripsy burring before the shock, protected high-risk PCI of a heavily calcified...

Calcified coronary lesions: procedural techniques

PCRonline @ ACC.24 Scientific Sessions

22 Mar 2024

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology 2024 Scientific Sessions #ACC24

Intravascular ultrasound-guided versus angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes: The multicenter, randomized, blinded, IVUS-ACS Trial

09 Apr 2024

Marco Spagnolo and Daniele Giacoppo report the main results of the IVUS-ACS trial presented by Shao-Liang Chen, from the Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, in a Featured Clinical Research session at ACC.24 in Atlanta and simultaneously published in The Lancet.(1)

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Marco Spagnolo

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Marco Spagnolo

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2023: the interventional cardiology perspective!

07 Aug 2023

What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2023!

ILUMIEN IV: OPTIMAL PCI - Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Coronary Stent Implantation Compared with Angiography: A Multicenter Randomized Trial in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

29 Aug 2023

Claudio Laudani and Daniele Giacoppo report the main results of the ILUMIEN IV trial presented by Ziad Ali, from the St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, and Clinical Trials Center, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, in a Hot Line session at the European Society of Cardiology congress 2023...

Claudio Laudani

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Claudio Laudani
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Daniele Giacoppo

Percutaneous coronary intervention vs coronary artery bypass graft surgery for left main disease in patients with and without acute coronary syndromes: a pooled analysis of 4 randomized clinical trials

05 Jul 2023

This patient-level analysis of randomized trials comparing PCI vs CABG for the treatment of low-to-intermediate CAD involving the LM confirms the absence of long-term differences in mortality between revascularization techniques, regardless of the clinical presentation.

Giovanni Occhipinti

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Giovanni Occhipinti
Daniele Giacoppo

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Daniele Giacoppo

PCI of calcified lesions

17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023

Watch this serie of commented cases focusing on PCI of calcified lesions and develop your expertise in treating situations that often remain a challenge. Selected cases cover right coronary artery in Sherpherd's crook, intravascular lithotripsy and much more.

Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of calcified lesions

EuroPCR 2023 Hotlines/Late-Breaking Trials: focus on stent technology

17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023

If you would like to learn more about the latest findings on stent techhnology, check-out this session in which speakers reviewed a series of recent trials, among them: 12-month primary endpoint outcomes of the BIOADAPTOR-RCT; Final 5-year results from the blinded ABSORB IV trial ; BIOMAG-I:...

Late breaking trials on stent technology

RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI: Intravascular imaging-guided versus angiography-guided procedural optimization in complex percutaneous coronary intervention

06 Mar 2023

Daniele Giacoppo reports the main results of the RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI trial presented by Joo-Yong Hahn, from the Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, in a Late-Breaking Trial session at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2023 / World...

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PCRonline @ ACC.23/WCC Scientific Sessions

23 Feb 2023

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology / World Heart Federation 2023 Scientific Sessions #ACC23 #WCCardio.

AHA 2022: get the interventional cardiology perspective!

07 Nov 2022

Stay up to date with what is new and hot in interventional cardiology at #AHA22 in Chicago.

Pretreatment with heparin in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a report from the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR)

01 Sep 2022

Daniele Giacoppo analyses the results of the SCAAR registry which compared patients with STEMI treated by primary PCI in Sweden from January 2008 to December 2016 according to the UFH pretreatment status...

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PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2022: the interventional cardiology perspective!

18 Jul 2022

Stay up to date with what was new and hot in interventional cardiology at the #ESCCongress 2022!

Effect of transcatheter aortic valve implantation vs surgical aortic valve replacement on all-cause mortality in patients with aortic stenosis: a randomized clinical trial

16 Jun 2022

The UK TAVI trial sought to compare TAVI with SAVR in patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis and moderately increased surgical risk.

Daniele Giacoppo

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Daniele Giacoppo

Left main bifurcation stenting

19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022

Let's study, LIVE from Massy, France, the case of a 76-year-old man, hypertensive, dyslipidemic, who presented apical necrosis without ischemia in 2017, asymptomatic, referred for myocardial scintigraphy, and find out more about performing LM PCI, using imaging to guide the procedure.

Left main bifurcation stenting

EuroPCR 2022 Hotlines / Late-Breaking Trials in coronary physiology: DECISION QFR, INOCA, and PROPHET-FFR

17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022

Find out more about various studies & registries in coronary physiology! Angiography-derived coronary microcirculatory assessment in INOCA patients, Heart Team decision-making based on angiography-derived FFR: DECISION QFR, and safety and efficacy of post-PCI physiological assessment: PROPHET-FFR.

EuroPCR 2022 Hotlines / Late-Breaking Trials in coronary physiology: DECISION QFR, INOCA, and PROPHET-FFR

PCRonline @ ACC 2022 Scientific Sessions

29 Mar 2022

Live updates on a selection of major Late Breaking Clinical Trials of interest in interventional cardiology presented at the American College of Cardiology 2022 Scientific Sessions #ACC22.

The FLAVOUR Randomized Clinical Trial: Comparison of Fractional Flow Reserve-guided and Intravascular Ultrasound-guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Intermediate Coronary Artery Stenosis

22 Mar 2022

Daniele Giacoppo analyses the main results of the FLAVOUR trial which were presented by Bon-Kwon Koo, from Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea at the American College of Cardiology 2022. 

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FAME 3: A Randomized Trial of FFR-Guided Stenting Compared With CABG

12 Nov 2021

Examination of the study methodology and results according to the PICOT principle, SWOT analysis and real-world applicability of the FAME 3 trial presented at TCT 2021.

PCRonline @ TCT 2021 - Get the international perspective!

03 Nov 2021

Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2021 - check out the list here!

ENVISAGE-TAVI AF: edoxaban vs. vitamin K antagonists after TAVI in patients with atrial fibrillation

31 Aug 2021

Following the Hot Line session of the ESC Congress 2021 presented by George Dangas (New-York, USA), Daniele Giacoppo offers us a condensed version of this study.

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PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2021: the interventional cardiology perspective!

21 Jul 2021

Make sure you stay up to date with what's new and hot in interventional cardiology at this year's #ESCCongress!