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Since 1986, when the first cardiovascular stent was implanted, the development of drug-eluting stents (DES) and the recent introduction of bioresorbable scaffolds have revolutionised interventional cardiology. Keep up-to-date with the latest research; evolving tools, devices and techniques; the role of adjunctive pharmacotherapy; advances in imaging techniques as well as the use of invasive imaging and functional assessment. Find out more…

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How to treat a distal coronary perforation?

05 Jan 2021

View this case of a 60-year-old female patient who was scheduled for PCI of the LAD, during which perforation occurred. What would be your treatment options?

Pham Quoc Bang

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Pham Quoc Bang
To treat distal coronary perforation

Multimodality guided management of an unusual case of STEMI

22 Dec 2020

A 47-year-old woman without previous medical history was admitted for chest pain with ST-segment elevation in the inferolateral leads. Echocardiography showed inferior and infero-lateral wall hypokinesia with preserved global left ventricular function...

Multimodality guided management of an unusual case of STEMI

Optimize complex PCI outcomes through innovative technologies

13 Dec 2020 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2020

Watch this session to learn about the new SYNERGY XD Xtra deliverability stent and SYNERGY XD with Platinum Chromium unique architecture design for bifurcation lesions.

This session was originally presented during AICT-AsiaPCR 2020.

Optimize complex PCI outcomes through innovative technologies

What matters to patients matters to you: 2020 hot topics

13 Dec 2020 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2020

Watch this session to understand how your peers make decisions about DAPT duration and to understand the role of VCDs in small bore and large bore catheterisation procedures.

In this session, 2 hot topics are presented:

  • Very short DAPT is the way to go after DES implantation -...
What matters to patients matters to you: 2020 hot topics

Deep dive into TRI-PCI: big data to clinical practice

13 Dec 2020 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2020

Watch this session to understand the value of big data, to learn and gain confidence in TRI for complex PCI cases and to discuss the intricacies of TRI-PCI with the experts.

This session was originally presented during AICT-AsiaPCR 2020.

Deep dive into TRI-PCI: Big data to clinical practice

How-to session: learning useful techniques of PCI in daily practice

13 Dec 2020 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2020

Watch this session to learn some of the uncommon but useful innovative PCI techniques that may increase your procedural success rate and to learn these techniques in a step-by-step manner, made easy to understand.

This session was originally presented during AICT-AsiaPCR 2020.

How-to session: learning useful techniques of PCI in daily practice

The year in review in Interventional Cardiology: clinical trials and relevant literature published in 2020

12 Dec 2020 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2020

Watch this session if you want to reflect on key learnings for clinical practice from selected trials published in 2020, to get a rapid overview of the most relevant literature of the year in the fields of coronary, valvular and peripheral interventions and to see examples...

The year in review in Interventional Cardiology

Three-dimensional optical coherence tomography-guided double kissing crush stenting

14 Dec 2020

The authors present a case of percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesion in a 73-year-old man suffering from effort angina, in which they successfully performed double kissing crush stenting using optical coherence tomography.

Image in cardiology: OCT-guided crush stenting

Editorial - The “Interventional cardiac surgeon”: the (new) member of the interventional Heart Team

18 Nov 2020

Surgeons have been for many years the only interventionalists. The only “doctors” to dare enter the body and mechanically intervene on structures to cure or improve quality of life. The link between surgeons and interventional cardiologists is very strong. Many surgeons contributed to the development of...

Prof. Francesco Maisano

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Francesco Maisano
William Wijns

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William Wijns

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Salvatore Brugaletta
The “Interventional cardiac surgeon”: the (new) member of the interventional Heart Team

Aspirin-free prasugrel monotherapy following coronary artery stenting in patients with stable CAD

27 Oct 2020

The ASET pilot study: a multicenter, single-arm, first-in-human and proof-of-concept trial which included a total of 212 low-risk patients with stable coronary artery disease

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Ali Nazmi Calik
Aspirin-free prasugrel monotherapy following coronary artery stenting in patients with stable CAD