Ralf Birkemeyer
Latest contributions
Retrograde removal of the broken sheath
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session addresses complex complications during vascular access with a focus on retrograde removal of broken sheaths. Learn to recognize critical signs, manage rare but severe complications including broken guidewires in the radial artery, and explore innovative off-label solutions for challenging scenarios.
Advanced tools for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session highlights advanced diagnostic tools for coronary artery disease, focusing on innovative pressure gradient assessments, computed tomography perfusion accuracy in stented patients, head-to-head comparisons of IQ-FFR with invasive FFR, and comprehensive evaluations of coronary physiology and plaque vulnerability derived from angiography.
Strategies in treating double CTO scenarios
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Navigate complex double chronic total occlusion (CTO) scenarios with this session that emphasizes thorough lesion qualification and innovative techniques. Learn strategies including management of ambiguous proximal caps, sequential vessel revascularization, and advanced tools like snaring and deflection to optimize procedural success.
How to deal with ostial right coronary artery CTOs
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into specialized approaches for managing ostial right coronary artery CTOs. This session discusses scenarios with no clear antegrade path, PCI in high take-off anomalies, retrograde techniques in familial hypercholesterolemia, and complex in-stent CTOs with aortic protrusion.
How CTO techniques can help you in your everyday practice?
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Consult this session if you want to improve your skills in coronary intervention problem solving, to learn how techniques used in CTO PCI can solve problems in non-CTO PCI, and to discuss how to overcome PCI barriers and complications.
Management of PCI complications
16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Listen to speakers explore the landscape of PCI complications, dissecting their impact, strategies for skillful management and ways to optimize patient outcomes. Advance your own understanding of this important problem and discover a range of approaches to mitigating it.
How to approach complex and calcified coronary lesions
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Discover the added value of imaging in complex left main PCI, the impact of robotization in severely calcified left main lesions and the use of directional rotational atherectomy for calcified nodule of left main bifurcation in these cases on complex and calcified coronary lesions!
Transcatheter mitral edge intervention
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
In this session, watch LIVE from Toulouse, France, an edge-to-edge transcatheter mitral valve repair on an 85-year-old male patient with severe primary mitral regurgitation and III NYHA shortness of breath, history of hypertension, NSTEMI in November 2019 resulting in PCI with DES on proximal and distal LADs,...
Treatment of calcified coronary lesions: rotablation and beyond
24 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session on calcified coronary lesions to learn all about treatment strategies, with clinical cases such as in-stent stenosis due to stent underexpansion, rotablation and provisionnal stenting approach, and more!
BRS cases with poor outcomes
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover various clinical cases where the use of a bioresorbable scaffold ended up in a poor outcome, such as an aneurysm, a thrombosis, and more!
Cases you will see only once...
21 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover various unusual cases and complications: pathological anatomy of heart with late-contained aortic root rupture, aorta right ventricular fistula after TAVI, painless paraplegia after TAVI, and more!
