Fausto Castriota
Latest contributions
All you need to know on aorto iliac disease during TAVI: from access to complications management
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain expertise in managing aorto-iliac disease during TAVI procedures, from access planning to complication management. This session covers key imaging techniques, decision-making regarding stenting and lesion modification, approaches to access-related complications, and criteria for involving vascular surgeons, ensuring procedural safety and success.
Valve choice - Shaping index procedures and lifetime patient management
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session addresses recent advancements and ongoing challenges in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), with a particular focus on valve selection during index procedures. Presentations include data from the Accurate IDE trial, highlighting the prognostic implications of valve underexpansion. A clinical case involving an 80-year-old patient with severe...
Critical limb ischaemia below the knee treatment
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session focuses on advanced techniques for treating critical limb ischaemia below the knee. Understand how to select wires for antegrade recanalisation, the role and timing of retrograde access, and the potential benefits of drug-coated balloons in below-the-knee angioplasty.
Nightmare cases
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
How do I confidently expand my DCB practice?
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session offers insights on identifying appropriate lesions for DCB treatment, understanding the essential concepts for achieving optimal immediate results with DCB PCI, and exploring the long-term angiographic and clinical outcomes. The session emphasizes the importance of lesion preparation, notes that there are no contraindications for...
Vascular access complications following TAVI
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session comprises selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions focused on the management of vascular access complications following TAVI procedures. It will cover topics such as the management of a snapped single ProGlide, the use of distal femoral access to manage TAVI vascular complications, and the...
Challenges in below-the-knee
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session focuses on the challenges and strategies for below-the-knee angioplasty. It aims to define the appropriate tools for below-the-knee angioplasty, understand the incremental strategy for antegrade recanalisation and the appropriate timing for retrograde approach, and provide guidance on what to do when everything fails.
Radial artery: the best friend of double mesh carotid stents?
18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
In these slides, follow the steps described one by one to ensure the success of a high-quality radial procedure, and learn more about carotid artery stenting using radial approach, among others!
Endovascular management for pulmonary embolism
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
If you are interested in expanding your knowledge on endovascular management for pulmonary embolism, do no miss watching this compelling series of cases including among others, DJ in pulmonary artery -ST-segment elevation, an unexpected culprit- MIGRA, unexpected complication of leadless pacemaker implantation and more.
Complex coronary artery disease: can stents and DCB be complementary?
16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
DES and DCB, can these two technologies be complementary for the treatment of the same patient? What are the advantages and how to proceed? You will know everything by watching this presentation based on concrete cases.
Upper limb and visceral artery treatment
Watch this session on upper limb and visceral artery treatment to discover some compelling cases, such as the endovascular upper limb salvage in a patient with a thrombotic complication after SARS-COV2 vaccine, the extraction of a multiple kinked catheter in the brachial artery, the treatment of...
Endovascular aortic arch aneurysm treatment
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch this session to gain insight into the treatment of endovascular aortic arch aneurysm, thanks to a selection of challenging cases: the percutaneous device closure of a leaking descending aortic pseudoaneurysm, an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm closure with a vascular plug, and more!
Bending zones last frontier for peripheral angioplasty
In this EuroPCR 2022 session, discover 2 different cases to well define how to treat the bending zones, especially the common femoral artery and the popliteal level, and learn how to select appropriate debulking devices, when and how to use DCB after debulking devices, and how to use Supera...
Streamlining transfemoral TAVI in patients with peripheral atherosclerosis
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Below the knee (BTK) angioplasty - Session with LIVE demonstration
18 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to review indications, treatment strategies and equipment, to discuss LIVE procedures and to appreciate the similaritites between coronary and BTK interventions.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
SFA and popliteal interventions (part 2) - Session with LIVE demonstration
18 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to review indications, treatment strategies and equipment and to discuss LIVE procedures.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
SFA and popliteal interventions (part 1) - Session with LIVE demonstration
18 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to review indications, treatment strategies and equipment and to discuss LIVE procedures.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
PCR Peripheral for beginners - Femoro popliteal angioplasty
Watch this episode if you want to:
- Know where we are regarding paclitataxel controversy,
- Know how to deal with simple superficial artery case angioplasty,
- Discuss when to perform controlateral and antegrade accesses,
- Learn when to go intra luminal or sub intimal,
- Know how to select the best tools to use...
PCR Peripheral for beginners - Iliac angioplasty case from puncture to closure
28 Apr 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Do you want to know which exams are needed before starting an iliac angioplasty case?
Watch this episode if you want to:
- Know which exams are needed before starting an iliac angioplasty case
- Discuss how to deal with simple common iliac and external iliac case angioplasties
- See how to perform...
LIVE demonstration from Clinique Pasteur - Toulouse, France: Complex aortoiliac bifurcation treatment
23 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn more about how to select the best vascular access option (single versus multiple) and how to drive your device choice for patient-/lesion-individualised treatment.
LIVE demonstration from Clinique Pasteur - Toulouse, France: Treatment of bending zones in femoral and popliteal arteries
23 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn more about the different characteristics of devices and treatment strategies including: directional atherectomy + drug-coated balloon, calcified plaque softening with lithoplasty, new stents conforming to anatomy, and more!
Unusual situations require smart techniques
23 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover innovative techniques to cope with unusual situations, such as crossing of popliteal artery dissection by dual lumen microcatheter, stent extension outside the artery during stent deployment, blunt occlusive traumatic injury in the popliteal artery, and more!
Critical limb ischaemia antegrade below-the-knee angioplasty - LIVE Case
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn all about first intention anterograde access, the currently available wires and how to use microcatheters and low-profile balloons.
How to choose material for a successful superficial femoral artery popliteal angioplasty?
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn all about lesion specific strategies in complex superficial femoral artery obstructive disease, the impact of lesion length and calcification on treatment choice, and how to define treatment algorithm for drug coated balloons and stent devices.
LIVE demonstration from Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital - Bergamo, Italy: Imaging and physiology for left main PCI
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover the slides of the case "Imaging and physiology for left main PCI", transmitted live during EuroPCR 2019, and discover the patient's presentation and key clinical data.
