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Caught between a calcified rock and a hard place
19 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
This session delves into the challenges of managing heavily calcified coronary lesions, particularly in complex scenarios like left main bifurcation angioplasty and in elderly patients with unstable angina. Explore innovative techniques to tackle abrupt vessel closure, situations where rotablation may fall short, and state-of-the-art approaches for...
Let it heal!
05 Feb 2025
The purpose of this case report is to discuss the treatment of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) in a 58-year-old male patient with multiple cardiovascular risk factors including type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and smoking history.
Angio showed a CTO of the RCA. In the MR-Scan, the RCA...
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CTO PCI: Addressing acute no-flow, multivessel challenges and calcified lesions
04 Oct 2024 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2024
Delve into this comprehensive CTO session, featuring a selection of compelling clinical case submissions from AICT-AsiaPCR 2024. Explore various complex CTO scenarios, including the management of acute no-flow after stenting, multivessel PCI for heavily calcified CTOs, and confronting the calcium conundrum. Gain valuable insights from expert...
Mastering complex CTO interventions: Techniques, challenges, and innovations
04 Oct 2024 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2024
Immerse yourself in a comprehensive CTO session featuring a selection of complex and challenging cases from the AICT-AsiaPCR 2024 conference. Discover innovative techniques and strategies for navigating highly calcified and tortuous CTO lesions, utilizing IVUS guidance, managing coronary perforations, and optimizing CTO PCI planning with left...
Mastering the recovery of lost stents in PCI
17 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session, comprising selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions, focuses on the management of lost stents during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). Participants will explore various cases of stent dislodgement, entrapment, and retrieval challenges, and learn about the corresponding bailout techniques and solutions to preserve coronary flow...
Imaging and physiology guided PCI
17 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session features selected EuroPCR 2024 clinical case submissions showcasing the use of imaging and physiology guidance during PCI. Cases cover topics such as managing cardiac arrest during PCI, virtual reality-guided PCI, low-contrast PCI in multivessel disease, and the comprehensive assessment of obstructive and non-obstructive coronary...
Physiology guided post-DCB treatment to safely limit stenting. Validation in complex clinical settings with the optical Optowire III pressure guidewire
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Follow this session to discover how accurate resting index can inform decision-making for DCB in CTO patients and understand the role of physiology in a new PCI workflow for complex MVD. Thus, you will learn about a DCB intention-to-treat strategy guided by post-PCI coronary physiology in...
CTO within a bifurcation
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session will present various cases of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) within a bifurcation. Participants will learn about the challenges, diagnostic techniques, and treatment strategies for these complex cases, including the use of IVUS, CT angiography, and the hybrid algorithm for successful CTO interventions.
CTO PCI: from planning to execution
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session, with the collaboration of the Cyprus Society of Cardiology / Cyprus Interventional Cardiology Working Group, Tunisian Group for Interventional Cardiology and Bulgarian Society of Interventional Cardiology, covers planning and execution of CTO PCI procedures. It includes case discussions on treatment dilemmas, overcoming frequently encountered...
The challenge with ostial CTO lesions
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session comprises selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions focused on the challenges in treating ostial chronic total occlusion (CTO) lesions. It covers various case presentations and discussions, including the use of specialized techniques and devices to tackle calcified and stumpless ostial right coronary artery CTOs,...
