Giulio Stefanini
Latest contributions
Through decisions in complex left main PCI - Left main restenosis
23 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain comprehensive understanding of left main restenosis mechanisms, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment options. This session includes case presentations with angiographic and intracoronary imaging assessments, explores the role of imaging in management decisions, and reviews therapeutic strategies including repeat stenting, drug-eluting balloons, and coronary artery bypass grafting.
Is DCB a new valid option for coronary revascularisation?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session provides an in-depth evaluation of drug-coated balloons (DCB) as a valid option for coronary revascularisation. Topics include two-year follow-up comparisons between paclitaxel and sirolimus-coated balloons, clinical outcomes after bailout stenting post-DCB angioplasty, meta-analyses contrasting DCB and DES for large native coronary artery disease, and...
Antithrombotic drugs for acute coronary syndromes in women
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Enhance your understanding of antithrombotic drug management in women with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). This session addresses risk stratification balancing ischemic and bleeding risks, evidence-based tailored antithrombotic and revascularisation strategies in high bleeding risk patients, and diagnostic and treatment approaches for MINOCA, with illustrative cases highlighting...
Intracoronary imaging to guide management in ACS
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session focuses on the role of intracoronary imaging, specifically IVUS and OCT, in the management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). Participants will learn when intracoronary imaging can facilitate diagnosis and guide PCI, as well as discuss image interpretation in the setting of ACS.
Trial updates and featured clinical research
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session showcases a selection of the latest clinical research and trial updates presented at EuroPCR 2024. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the findings from studies evaluating the use of OCT-guided PCI for chronic total occlusions, the safety and efficacy of short dual...
Endovascular thrombectomy for pulmonary embolism
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session comprises selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions focused on endovascular thrombectomy for pulmonary embolism. It includes cases of pulmonary embolism resistant to systemic thrombolytic therapy, simultaneous acute pulmonary embolism and abdominal aortic aneurysm, paradoxical thrombus in transit with concomitant pulmonary embolism, and the successful...
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...
How to approach isolated ostial left circumflex
18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
This session examines the optimal treatment options for isolated ostial left circumflex lesions, considering both technical and physiological/imaging approaches. However, one question arises: does the concept of an "isolated ostial circumflex lesion" truly exist? Join the speakers to uncover the answer and gain valuable information into...
Coronary CT reading
18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Watch this session to master reading and interpreting standard coronary CT angiography images, to learn how to determine lesion location, quantify stenosis, and to characterize plaques from CT imaging, while gaining the skills to differentiate between image artifacts and true coronary stenosis or plaques.
Coronary access and PCI after TAVI
16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Watch this session to learn more about the epidemiology of PCI after TAVI, to learn how to approach an elective patient with TAVI requiring PCI, or a patient with THV requiring urgent coronary angiography and PCI, among others.
Stent failure and intravascular imaging: shedding the light to improve outcomes
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Understand how to use intravascular imaging to analyse the reasons for stent failure (restenosis and/or thrombosis) by viewing these 2 cases shared by your peers: 1 focusing on OCT & the other on IVUS.
How to use coronary CT imaging and physiology for multivessel disease
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
How can imaging and physiology help treat this 77-year-old female patient, ex-smoker, with dyslipidemia, stable angina, and EF at 60 %, or this 67-year-old male patient with HTN, CCS class III, and LV EF at 61 %? The answers in this EuroPCR 2022 session.
Innovations in coronary physiology
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch this EuroPCR 2022 session to compare diagnostic accuracy of one versus two angiographic views, study normal and ANOCA patients, and find out more about a novel approach to manage coronary microvascular dysfunction.
Aortic valve disease: treatment and patient selection
21 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021
Let's talk about severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis: what are the surgical standpoint and recent data from surgical literature? How to assess these patients? How to analyze CT? What do the newly published VHD Guidelines say? What is the place of MRI in these patients? So many questions...
World Heart Day 2021 - Pandemic and heart diseases: lessons learnt for the future
27 Sep 2021
Giulio Stefanini and Emanuele Barbato take the opportunity of World Heart Day to review the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cardiovascular care at a time when the pandemic has highlighted the gaps between different health systems.
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EuroPCR 2021 Hotlines / Late-Breaking Trials: POEM, CEL-02, and PENDULUM
21 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Find out more about various studies & registries in drugs & devices:
- POEM study: 1-month DAPT after PCI with bioresorbable-polymer EES in HBR patients
- CEL-O2 trial: a novel rapid glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor(RUC-4) for STEMI patients
- PENDULUM registry study: impact of Clinical Outcomes and Platelet Reactivity After Percutaneous Coronary
Endovascular aortic repair and case-based discussion of complications during peripheral interventions (Part 1)
20 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to learn more about Endovascular aortic repair and complications during peripheral interventions. It highlights the need for a large toolbox and the importance of pre-procedural planning, ultrasound-guided puncture, and team-working (vascular/heart teams).
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
Endovascular aortic repair and case-based discussion of complications during peripheral interventions (Part 2)
20 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
This session, which was originally broadcast during EuroPCR 2021, presents 6 cases of unexpected complications of large vessel access in the context of TAVI procedures and enables our experts to discuss their successful management, using a variety of techniques. It highlights the need for a large...
Current status of renal denervation techniques for the treatment of hypertension (Part 2)
19 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to review the up-to-date indications, device selection and procedural techniques for renal denervation.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
Current status of renal denervation techniques for the treatment of hypertension (Part 1)
19 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to review the up-to-date indications, device selection and procedural techniques for renal denervation.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
Treatment of uncontrolled hypertension: case-based discussion
19 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to share indications and optimal criteria for patient selection.
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.
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.
The burden of non-COVID patients: caring for the left-behind
26 Jun 2020 – From PCR e-Course 2020
Despite the dramatic consequences of the pandemic, there is still a need for treating chronic cardiovascular diseases. In this session, you will find out more about the strategies that can be used to deal with the people left behind.
This session was originally presented during PCR e-Course...
PCR Spotlight: STEMI management in the context of Covid-19: Thrombolysis
21 Apr 2020
Interventional Cardiologists A. Baumbach, UK, G. Stefanini, Italy, and C. Kyriakakis, South Africa, discuss the use of thrombolysis as an alternative option for STEMI..
PCR Spotlight: STEMI management in the context of Covid-19: Diagnosis
20 Apr 2020
Interventional Cardiologists Andreas Baumbach, London, UK, Giulio Stefanini, Milan, Italy, discuss diagnosis during the COVID-19 crisis
The future of medical device regulation in the European Union
New EU regulations on medical devices will come into force in 2020. Giulio Stefanini, Robert Byrne and Paul Piscoi discuss how new regulation is needed “to reflect the changes in the field over the last decades” and outline what this will mean for the safety of...
Dealing with a failing graft - Challenges and solutions
21 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn all about the challenges of coronary artery by-pass graft (CABG), and discover innovative solutions to cope with them, thanks to a selection of compelling cases.
Practical aspects of left main trifurcation PCI
21 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session on the practical aspects of left main trifurcation PCI to learn more about how to select patients suitable for this procedure, the appropriate stenting techniques, but also valuable tips and tricks in order to achieve an optimal outcome.
