Ricardo Costa
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.
Two-stent techniques for non-left main true bifurcation lesions
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Enhance your skills in two-stent techniques for non-left main true bifurcation lesions. This session covers patient and lesion assessment, PCI procedural steps, and common pitfalls to avoid, aiming to improve procedural success in complex coronary anatomies.
Clinical and technical factors for decision-making in treatment of left main coronary artery disease
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into decision-making factors in treating left main coronary artery disease, particularly in challenging scenarios. This session discusses the application of new SOLACI guidelines, critical strategy reflections, and real-world cases illustrating optimal left main PCI approaches.
Choices, choices: a global perspective on multiple modalities for calcium modification
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain a global perspective on multiple modalities for calcium modification in coronary interventions. This session reviews comparative analyses of orbital, shockwave, rotational atherectomy, and cutting balloons, explores evolving rotational atherectomy practices in the era of intravascular lithotripsy, and presents preliminary data from international registries on coronary...
Featured Research - Tricuspid valve (Part 4)
25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Dive deeper into the latest research on transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions in this featured session. Explore the clinical impact of vena contracta area planimetry in secondary tricuspid regurgitation, the significance of tricuspid valve anatomy in transcatheter tricuspid edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER), and the implications of tricuspid right...
Rapid-fire - TAVI-in-TAVI (Part 1)
24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
This rapid-fire session on TAVI-in-TAVI (Part 1) features selected clinical case submissions from PCR London Valves 2024. Gain insights into strategies for redo TAVI to treat paravalvular leak, valve-in-valve bailout techniques, the use of the Myval Octacor valve-in-valve approach, and other challenges and solutions in managing...
State-of-the-art on left main interventions in Latin America
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session, in collaboration with the Sociedad Latino Americana de Cardiologia Intervencionista (SOLACI), provides insights into the management of left main coronary artery disease in Latin America. Attendees will learn about the revascularization guidelines for left main in the region, the approaches to left main bifurcations...
Contemporary TAVI cases: perspectives from three different continents
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session provides perspectives from three different continents on the management of complex TAVI cases. It features case presentations and discussions on topics such as TAVR for the correction of aortic pseudoaneurysm, TAV-in-TAV intervention, and the management of aortic stenosis in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy....
Left main: presentation and diagnosis
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session comprises selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions focused on the presentation and diagnosis of left main coronary artery disease. It covers various case presentations and discussions, including isolated aortitis with critical coronary ostial stenosis due to Takayasu arteritis, acute left main occlusion, and critically...
Valve-in-valve
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Alternative structural interventions
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Join us in this session as we delve into unconventional structural interventions through two distinct studies: one focusing on evaluating the quality of trials investigating percutaneous PFO closure as a potential treatment for migraines, the other exploring the novel landscape of percutaneous procedures extending beyond the...
TAVI - stroke
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Join this session for key perspectives on stroke management and prevention in TAVI: gain a comprehensive view of the long-term outcomes in transfemoral TAVI complicated by stroke, evaluate a novel cerebral embolic protection during TAVI through the PROTEMBO C-TRIAL, learn how TAVR debris captured by CEP...
How did we do it in Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal?
19 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Consult this session if you want to evaluate the optimal strategy in complex bicuspid cases, and discuss the correct sizing algorithm depending on transcatheter heart valve selected, to manage infrequent but life-threatening complications using TAVI devices, and to improve your skills in TAVI long-term follow-up management.
PCI with drug eluting balloons
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Consult this compilation of difficult cases experienced by your colleagues, providing helpful and practical information on drug-eluting balloon strategies in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Watch commented slides and learn about the diverse medical histories, approaches and treatment tailored to the complexity of each individual case.
SOLACI research - Developing original research across Latin America
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
In these slides, get an insight into real-world bifurcation lesion management in Latin America, diverse STEMI reperfusion access in this region, and limitations to widespread TAVI adoption, along with the Latin America TAVI guidelines.
Rapid-fire clinical cases: Session 5
29 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Discover a selection of cases submitted at PCR LV 2022 in this session: subacute thrombosis of a balloon-expandable aortic bioprosthesis, left axillary access for TAVI in a patient with two IMA grafts and a left side implanted pacemaker, avoiding paravalvular leak using computer simulation in bicuspid TAVI,...
NSTEMI PCI: LIVE case from St Thomas' Hospital - London, United Kingdom
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch the case of a 65-year-old ex-smoker, male patient, with hypertension and cholesterol, who presented with chest pain at rest, symptomatic with nausea and dizziness, and find out how this NSTE-ACE patient was treated.
TAVI: contemporary indications and techniques - Session with LIVE case
20 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session if you want to reflect on lifetime management of patients with severe aortic stenosis.
This session was originally presented during EuroPCR 2021.
The new paradigm for coronary interventions
Watch this session to understand indications for DEB vs. DES & the potential advantage of a sustained sirolimus release when utilised in a DEB, and to get insights into the breakthrough technology of SELUTION SLR & its initial clinical data & clinical experience.
Speakers: Stephan Windecker, Robert...
