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Undilatable calcific lesion even after rotational atherectomy
19 Dec 2019
View this very uncommon case in which balloons do not expand even after a rather aggressive rotational atherectomy: a 43-year-old male with hypertension, smoking and dyslipidemia presents with total occlusion of proximal left anterior descending artery with fresh thrombus...
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Editor's picks: impactful articles in interventional cardiology
01 Oct 2019
Struggling to keep up with the mass of scientific information in interventional cardiology? On this page you will find a selection of recent articles published in major journals in the field - use it to guide your reading!
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...
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 - 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.
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.
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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…
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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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!
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.
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