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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...
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...
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...
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...
Antegrade CTO - LIVE case
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session features a LIVE educational case from Netcare Sunninghill Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, focusing on the management of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) using an antegrade approach. Participants will learn how to identify CTO anatomy through dual injection, as well as how to perform IVUS-guided...
The uncrossable lesion
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session delves into the challenges of dealing with uncrossable and heavily calcified coronary lesions. It features a variety of cases showcasing the use of specialized techniques and tools, such as the excimer laser, to overcome these obstacles. The session emphasizes the importance of troubleshooting, utilizing...
The value of IVUS during CTO PCI
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session explores the role of IVUS imaging in the management of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) during PCI procedures. Participants will learn how IVUS can help in navigating the true lumen, utilizing retrograde plaque/flap lift-and-shift techniques, managing false lumen entry, and addressing other challenging scenarios 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...
Upgrade to retrograde: when and how?
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session delves into the decision-making for transitioning to a retrograde approach in CTO PCI, covering effective techniques and safety considerations for successful outcomes, through cases involving antegradely induced hematomas and ambiguous CTO caps, alongside severe distal atherosclerosis.
