Helena Correia
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How to avoid using a new balloon for trapping?
10 Jul 2025
Trapping wires during complex PCI is essential but dedicated trapping balloons aren’t always on hand — and costs add up fast. This My Toolkit tip shows you how to safely reuse a standard PTCA balloon by stiffening its shaft with the original stylet, making valve crossing...
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When things threaten to go wrong: navigating procedural complications
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Develop critical skills for managing procedural complications in interventional cardiology. This session focuses on the identification and real-time management of common adverse events such as coronary dissection, perforation, tamponade, and embolism. Learn how to utilize echocardiographic imaging to assist in complication recognition and support your team...
Calcified lesions: preparing for the battlefield
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Prepare to tackle calcified coronary lesions with expertise in imaging interpretation and calcium modification tools. This session covers IVUS and OCT use, preparation techniques, and enhancing team communication to optimize procedural outcomes in complex cases.
Mastering complex CTO interventions: Techniques, challenges, and innovations
04 Oct 2024 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2024
Immerse yourself in a comprehensive CTO session featuring a selection of complex and challenging cases from the AICT-AsiaPCR 2024 conference. Discover innovative techniques and strategies for navigating highly calcified and tortuous CTO lesions, utilizing IVUS guidance, managing coronary perforations, and optimizing CTO PCI planning with left...
Stable CAD challenges
22 Sep 2023 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2023
Explore complex stable CAD scenarios in stable CAD in this session: from managing dissections and coronary artery anomalies to addressing complications arising from the off-label use of vascular closure devices, discover the unexpected twists and turns that can occur in these cases.
CTO challenges
21 Sep 2023 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2023
Broaden your knowledge in CTO interventions in this session: delve into the complexities of managing refractory angina, gain insights into the unique challenges of anomalous and ectatic RCA CTOs, explore effective techniques using separate cornus branch in LAD treatment, and discover how to address unexpected complications...
TAVI Insights: Addressing challenges and complex cases
21 Sep 2023 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2023
In this session, explore the complexities of TAVR complications and learn about unique cases, including TAVI in patients with bicuspid aortic valves, coarctation of the aorta, and small annuli.
Unconventional coronary interventions
21 Sep 2023 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2023
Join us in this session where our experts speakers delve into their experiences with unexpected diagnostic challenges and share innovative strategies to tackle unique cases, such as subacute stent thrombosis, flow-limiting moderate stenosis with vulnerable plaque, PCI in Takayasu arteritis, and more!
TAVI and difficult anatomy
18 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
Consult this session to discover how TAVI techniques helped cases of complex anatomy, such as: extremely horizontal aorta patient treated with snare-assisted TAVI technique, a novel simplified pacing-over-the-wire technique, successful non-contrast TAVI, and much more!
Clinical cases - Structural interventions - Session 7
07 Oct 2022 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2022
A mix of cases: HBR in ACS, endovascular venoplasty, carotid artery stenting and TAVI complications
Watch this session to discover various challenging cases presented at GulfPCR-GIM 2021: managing high-bleeding risk in ACS, endovascular venoplasty and stenting of subclavian vein in a patient on prolonged haemodialysis, flow arrest and reversal for carotid artery stenting in patients with high-grade bilateral stenosis, as well as TAVI complications...
Cases on CTO
08 Oct 2021 – From AICT AsiaPCR 2021
Watch this session to discover a selection of challenging CTO cases: multivessel disease with a balloon uncrossable CTO complicated by VT, retrograde PCI to ostial left anterior descending artery CTO, CTO RCA done with retrograde approach with reverse CART technique, and more!
