Marta Bande

Crossing the aortic valve can pose significant challenges, particularly in cases involving a horizontal aorta, bulky asymmetric calcifications, or prior prosthesis implantation in valve-in-valve procedures. While some TAVI devices feature deflectable delivery systems to enhance coaxiality, current self-expanding valves lack this capability. When standard techniques like...

Roxana Mehran, Marta Bande and Emanuele Barbato tackle the issue of gender equity: how to create a more equitable environment for women interventional cardiologists, and how to support women in the field of interventional cardiology as a whole. They also discuss the key drivers of change...