Stents, scaffolds and DCB

Latest Stents, scaffolds and DCB content in interventional cardiology - research, practice, and education

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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Does metallic stent ablation by rotational atherectomy influence on the coronary microcirculation?

09 Jul 2019

An 80-year-old man underwent percutaneous coronary intervention with a bare-metal stent for severe stenosis at proximal left anterior descending coronary artery 13 years ago. In-stent restenosis was treated by a drug-eluting stent 1 year later...

Influence of stent ablation on the coronary microcirculation

Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum - Looking ahead – New candidates and new projects

20 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session from Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum to learn about the results of the primary PCI program in Aruba, the primary PCI Iranian project, and the STEMI Network Blueprint project.

Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum - Looking ahead – New candidates and new projects

Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum - Welcome

20 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session to discover the slides of the welcome ceremony of Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum, and learn about the 2019 program and the future perspectives.

Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum - Welcome

Case study: check it before you wreck it

07 Mar 2019

Consult this clinical case by G. Arutiunian of stent deformation, dislocation and migration after left main percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on a 52-year-old male presented with stable angina.

Goar Arutiunian

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Goar Arutiunian
Check it before you wreck it

Crush technique

25 Feb 2019

What do you do when faced with a dislodged and unexpanded balloon? Is the crush technique a valid clinical response? Learn the pro’s and con’s of this technique here…

Crush technique

Complications lost scaffold: a dislodged bioresorbable scaffold

20 Feb 2019

Consult this clinical case by C. Y. Chin and S. T. Lim from the National Heart Centre, Singapore on OCT findings and management of a dislodged bioresorbable scaffold: a young 47-year-old male with LAD disease.

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Chee Yang Chin
Dr. Soo Teik Lim

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Soo Teik Lim
Dislodged BRS on OCT

How to find a loss scaffold stent and capture it with a balloon?

15 Feb 2019

The visualisation of a scaffold stent is possible by the radiopaque markers in the stent and can be increased using enhancement technologies. Find out how!

How to find a loss scaffold stent and capture it with a balloon?

Case study: stent lost and retrieved

30 Jan 2019

Consult this clinical case a 72-year-old man with crescendo angina by S. Basavarajaiah and I. Mohammed on how to capture a stent loss to RCA into the ulnar artery.

Sandeep Basavarajaiah

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Sandeep Basavarajaiah
Stent lost and retrieved

Retrieve the scaffold into the guiding catheter

28 Jan 2019

Do you know what is involved in retrieving a scaffold into the guiding catheter using low pressure balloon inflation? Learn about this technique here...

Retrieve scaffold into guiding catheter

Case study: Is it really loose?

24 Jan 2019

Consult this clinical case on a 79-year-old male with long, tortuous and calcified LAD lesion from the Juan Ramon Jimenez Hospital, Huelva - Spain on how to handle the situation with a stent loss to the proximal LAD.

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Francisco Jose Caro Fernandez

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Jessica Roa Garrido

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Santiago Jesus Camacho Freire

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Uriel Fantino Martínez Capoccioni

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Antonio Gomez Menchero

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Jose Diaz Fernandez
Is it really loose?