Dariusz Dudek
EAPCI President May 2020 - May 2022
Latest contributions
Two-stent techniques for non-left main true bifurcation lesions
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Enhance your skills in two-stent techniques for non-left main true bifurcation lesions. This session covers patient and lesion assessment, PCI procedural steps, and common pitfalls to avoid, aiming to improve procedural success in complex coronary anatomies.
A mindset shift in the cathlab: leveraging contemporary technologies for planning and guiding PCI in complex patients
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session examines evolving catheterisation lab workflows, highlighting how integrated imaging, physiology, and procedural strategies are reshaping PCI practices. Speakers emphasize the importance of advanced pre-procedural planning using modalities such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to optimise stent deployment, and cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) to improve diagnosis...
Valve haemodynamics and long-term durability
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Curious about valve durability and haemodynamics? This session is for you!
You'll discover why echocardiographic and invasive measurements of valve gradients differ, gain insights into the performance of surgical versus transcatheter valves, explore the latest knowledge on structural valve degeneration and learn how interventional techniques may influence...
How to implement a successful structural intervention programme
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Embark on a journey to learn how to implement a successful structural intervention program. Discover the essential requirements for building transcatheter valve intervention capabilities, including the necessary equipment, personnel, and training programs. Gain insights on establishing aortic, mitral, and tricuspid intervention programs, as well as creating...
Featured cases - Valve-in-valve TAVI with balloon fracture
24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Delve into the world of complex valve-in-valve TAVI procedures in this featured cases session. Explore a diverse range of challenging cases, including valve fracture techniques, managing unexpanded valves, and overcoming the Achilles' heel of valve-in-valve TAVI. Learn from the experiences of expert clinicians as they navigate...
First-in-man and out-of-the-box innovations hotline
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session showcases a variety of first-in-man and innovative technologies in the field of interventional cardiology. Presentations will cover topics such as NeuroOCT (nOCT) for intracranial imaging, the BackBeat system for atrio-ventricular interval modulation, renal stimulation with direct wire pacing, the TIVUS system for renal denervation,...
Ultra-low contrast techniques to improve the safety and quality of PCI in complex and high-risk patients
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Tune in to this session to discover how reducing reliance on contrast opacification enhances procedural safety and enables more thorough revascularization in complex PCI scenarios. Learn that ultra-low contrast (ULC) PCI encompasses various interventional skills and specialized tools, many already familiar to interventional cardiologists. Embrace a...
PCI: from basics to robots
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session covers a wide range of topics in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), from fundamental aspects to the latest advancements. It includes discussions on non-fasting versus fasting before interventional procedures, radial artery puncture hemostasis, ultrasound-guided transfemoral puncture in complex PCI, the use of uninterrupted direct-acting oral...
TAVI - Coronary access
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Delve into the complexities of TAVI and coronary access with this session: explore the use of IVUS in assessing coronary arteries at high risk for obstruction following valve-in-valve TAVI, witness the application of patient-specific computer simulation to predict coronary re-access post-TAVI in bicuspid anatomy, navigate the...
Challenges in TAVIs, are there guideline recommendations?
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
The EAPCI consensus session emphasized the critical role of evaluating and managing coronary artery disease in TAVI candidates, especially in younger and lower-risk patients. Transcatheter heart valve choice influences future coronary access, emphasizing the need for optimized implantation techniques. In cardiogenic shock due to valvular heart...
Ultra-low contrast PCI - An indispensable toolset in complex coronary interventions and higher-risk patients
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Discover the indispensable toolset of ultra-low contrast (ULC) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in complex coronary interventions and higher-risk patients in this session. Gain a comprehensive understanding of how ULC PCI can enhance the safety and quality of revascularization in complex procedures and learn practical aspects from...
Where will the future of Robotics in Interventional Cardiology take us?
15 May 2023 – From PCR Innovators day 2023
TAVI in complex situations - LIVE case
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
- Part 1: TAVI with the presence of a mechanical mitral valve.
An 80-year-old female with a history of mechanical mitral valve (25 On-X in 2015) presents severe symptomatic AS with preserved LV function. The operators implant a 25 mm Navitor, with predilatation (18 mm balloon) on wire pacing...
Improving the equity of access to percutaneous valve interventions: EAPCI initiatives for patients and health care professionals
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consul this session if you want to understand current unmet needs in the field of transcatheter valve intervention, to appraise the impact of the Valve for Life initiative on adoption of TAVI across Europe, and to hear about the new EAPCI Core Curriculum for training in...
Robotic-assisted intervention: latest clinical insights and applications for complex PCI
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
How does robotic assistance work in practice in the cathlab? This is the main question this EuroPCR 2022 session aims to answer. Watch it if you wish to understand the functions and capabilities of the Corpath GRX system, learn from a recorded case about best procedural practices and workflow...
How to decrease operator dependence on vessel opacification during PCI? A crash course on ultra-low contrast coronary interventions
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch this EuroPCR 2022 session to become aware of the importance of relying on less contrast injections to guide PCI in complex patients, to learn what skills are required and tools available to perform ultra-low contrast coronary interventions, and to share and discuss such a recorded intervention from...
Our patient with high-bleeding risk and acute coronary syndrome
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Follow the discussions about a 54-year-old active smoker on NOAC for a recent PAE, with inferior STEMI, and address the following points: radial difficulties, angio projections, thrombus aspiration, nonculprit PCI in STEMI, and best DAPT strategy for an elderly STEMI patient.
Innovations in simulation-based training, procedural planning, monitoring and robotic PCI
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
In this session, find out more about telemedicine, mixed reality technology in CTO proctoring, new-human grade simulator for ViV procedure planning, distance proctoring for transseptal TMVR, stent positioning assistance system, and robotic PCI.
Restriction in supra-annular transcatheter heart valve leaflet mobility during coronary access after valve-in-valve TAVI
05 Apr 2022
This Image in Interventional Cardiology highlights how patient-specific ex vivo simulations offer physicians the opportunity to observe and evaluate the potential in vivo impact of different techniques particularly for complex structural heart interventions.
Hybrid step-by-step approach to perform a Robotic DK Crush PCI
28 Jan 2022
View the case of this 65-year-old male patient who was staged for R-PCI of a Medina 1,1,1 distal left main lesion, and discover how the authors used a hybrid robotic and manual approach to perform a DK crush procedure using the second-generation R-PCI device.
Ultra low contrast PCI in chronic kidney disease: what tools do we have? How to perform? How to achieve optimal outcome? How low can you go?
22 Dec 2021 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2021
Don't miss this session to understand how to perform ultra-low contrast PCI in complex disease and to discover SyncVision co-registration, Dynamic Coronary Roadmap, and the benefits for Azurion to perform ultra-low contrast PCI.
EAPCI: patient initiatives around the world
22 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021
In this session, you can find out more about the EAPCI Valve for Life initiative and what progress has been made in selected countries, as well as other collaborative initiatives across the world.
Aortic valve disease: state-of-the-art
22 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021
This PCR London Valves 2021 session begins with important updates on the seminal trials that have defined our TAVI era over the past decade before moving on to new studies that are very likely to shape the evolution of TAVI in the next ten years.
Imaging and robotics in the catheterization laboratory of the future
20 Sep 2021
At a time when the prevention of the health of health care personnel is at the forefront, as well as that of the patient, innovations in imaging are arousing increasing interest. Similarly, the integration of new technologies, and in particular the use of artificial intelligence and...
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Managing acute coronary perforation: a simulation-based team approach
19 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to apprehend how to deal with unexpected occurances, to appreciate the importance of pre/de-briefing and immersive team simulation rehearsal, and to review the lifesaving actions in case of coronary perforation.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
Culotte technique for bifurcation PCI - Session with LIVE demonstration
19 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to discuss which anatomy is suitable for the culotte stenting technique, to learn the steps of culotte stenting, and to review the pitfalls of culotte stenting.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
Ultra low contrast: new skills and technologies for next frontier in PCI
27 Jun 2020 – From PCR e-Course 2020
Watch this session if you want to learn why ULCPCI will be needed for patients who have developed cardiomyopathy due wait linked to COVID outbreak, to understand what tools we have in the cathlab to perform ULCPCI and to learn how to practice ultra-low contrast in...
Which patients benefit from PFO closure after stroke?
24 Dec 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session on PFO closure after stroke and learn more about how to diagnose a cryptogenic stroke, work up a patient suspected of having one, and how to identify among them the patients who may benefit from PFO closure.
Practical aspects of left main trifurcation PCI
Michael HAUDE discusses left main trifurcation PCI with Alaide CHIEFFO from Italy, and Darius DUDEK from Poland. They bring their experience of treating this challenging lesion subset to talk about the broad spectrum of techniques required in the interventionalist’s toolbox, the available technologies and the use...
Left main nightmares
24 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session dedicated to left main nightmares to discover interventionists' strategies to successfully treat complex left main complications, through various clinical cases such as diagnostic catheter-induced left main stem dissection, PCI complicated with left main dissection, and more!
