Pamela Gatto
Latest contributions
Emerging indications for TAVI in 2025
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Prepare for emerging TAVI indications anticipated in 2025. This session reviews clinical cases including asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, moderate aortic stenosis with heart failure, and severe aortic regurgitation. It discusses supporting evidence from clinical trials, evolving transcatheter technologies, and practical treatment approaches for these novel indications.
Percutaneous And Non-fluoroscopic Procedures (PAN): promoting equality and radiation-free intervention
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Discover innovative non-fluoroscopic interventional techniques with the Percutaneous And Non-fluoroscopic Procedures (PAN) session. Learn how to perform radiation-free interventions using advanced technologies, assess their clinical equivalence to standard methods, and explore how these procedures may promote gender equality in interventional cardiology careers.
Focus on simulation - PCR London Valves 2024
Francesco Maisano and Pamela Gatto highlight the simulation-based learning approach at PCR London Valves. This educational journey begins with observing experts, followed by hands-on training, fostering discussions, idea exchange, and device testing before real interventions. The structured programme, complete with a "passport," offers specialized tracks for...
Mitral and tricuspid hotline
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session provides updates on the latest developments in transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve interventions. Key topics include one-year outcomes of the MiCLASP study on transcatheter mitral repair, the impact of residual mitral and tricuspid regurgitation after transcatheter repair, and the early feasibility of the AltaValve...
Focus on the simulation lab
22 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Join Pamela Gatto and Francesco Maisano as they discuss the simulation lab—a practical space for exploring hot topics, specific techniques, and tools.
The content of this video was filmed at PCR London Valves 2023. See more videos here!
PCR London Valves 2023 Closing Ceremony
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Experience the highlights of PCR London Valve 2023 in this video retrospective, followed by insights from the Course Directors as they reflect on 3 dynamic and fruitful days that united 3,700 participants. Gratitude is extended to all contributors whose support was instrumental in the event's success....
Rapid-fire - Challenging TAVI procedures - Part 3
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Interventional Cardiovascular Surgery editorial team
02 Nov 2022
Cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists and imaging specialists typically work together as the Heart Team in interventional cardiovascular surgery.
Revascularisation for Ischemic heart failure: is PCI as good as CABG?
27 Sep 2022
Pamela Gatto interviews Volkmar Falk, Cardiovascular Surgeon, and Dejan Milasinovic, Interventional Cardiologist, to get their perspective about the results of the REVIVED-BCIS2 trial.
The 3 questions are:
- What were your first thoughts and feelings when the findings from REVIVED were presented at ESC 2022?
- In STICH(es), CABG had a...
Mid-term echocardiographic outcomes following transapical mitral valve replacement: Updates from the Intrepid Pilot Study
19 Sep 2022
Pamela Gatto provides her take on the Intrepid Global Pilot Study which was presented by Renuka Jain at TCT Congress 2022.
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PCRonline @ TCT 2022 - Get the international perspective!
12 Sep 2022
Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2022 - check out the list here!
EuroPCR 2022 in words and images - What did we learn this year?
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch this video to get a brief look at the highlights of EuroPCR 2022 and learn about the:
- 30 years radial interview (Jean Fajadet)
- PCR's Got Talent winner interview
- Top 3 memories on coronary: ROBOTIC PCI, simulation-based learning on stent dislodgment and U-REDUCE STENT registry
- Top 3 publications EuroIntervention and...
TAVI best practice: implementing cusp overlap and commissural alignment
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch this session to understand why commissural alignment should become a standard procedure, why cusp overlap is fundamental for self-expandable devices, and why simulation-based learning is an advanced way to reduce the learning curve.
Mitral valve-in-valve
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Follow LIVE this case presented by St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK, of a 73-year-old-male patient with a degenerated mitral bioprosthesis to be treated with a catheter-based approach to appreciate key steps in planning and performing transcatheter mitral ViV procedures, and discuss potential approaches to smaller valves...
How should I treat complex left main: trifurcation, in-stent restenosis
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Review the cases of a 65-year-old male patient with exertional angina, good LV, transferred to hospital for CABG after an angiogram with failed PCI attempt, and an 87-year-old female patient with HTN and previous heart failure with preserved LV function who presented with NSTEMI, and analyze...
Commissural alignment for TAVI
23 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021
In this PCR London Valves 2021 session shot in the simulation lab, learn tips and tricks for achieving commissural alignment, review the strategy for improving TAVR outcomes, and discuss how to get the right imaging, the right tools, and the right patients.
Understanding the anatomy of the tricuspid valve: similarities with and differences from the mitral valve
21 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021
With this session on the tricuspid valve, learn to understand the anatomical features relevant to the procedures, become more familiar with different imaging modalities, and get hands-on by examining interactions between leaflets and some devices.
#radialfirst: cases, complications and more
24 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session on radial artery clinical cases, to learn more about this approach and how to cope with the potential complications.
Image-guided multivessel PCI - LIVE Case
23 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Watch this LIVE demonstration from National University Heart Centre (Singapore) to discover the case of a 56 years-old male admitted for NSTEMI and paroxysmal AFib, whose angiogram also revealed a LAD/RCA disease. He was planned for a multivessel PCI: watch the treatment now!
TAVI for aortic valve-in-valve - LIVE Case
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover an exciting case, live transmitted during EuroPCR 2019: it will take you to a whole new territory of TAVI, focusing on the generation of bioprosthetic heart valves issues and the transcatheter solutions which are emerging as an optimal approach to this...
PCRonline Editorial Board 2024 - 2026
29 Jun 2017
PCRonline.com has a new Board, led by Editor-in-Chief Salvatore Brugaletta. View the full list of Board members here.