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Treatment of calcified lesions
07 Oct 2022 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2022
Consider a 66-year-old man, hypertensive and diabetic for 10 years, with history of recurrent substernal chest pain and exertional dyspnea, who presented with easy fatigability and shortness of breath, or a 72-year-old man on dialysis who presented with STEMI and severe calcified stenosis of LAD/DI bifurcation,...
Cracking calcium: best practices to integrate intravascular lithotripsy into your calcium management algorithm
07 Oct 2022 – From AICT-ASIAPCR 2022
With this session, keep up to date on the evidence, trials and outcome data for intravascular lithotripsy in severely calcified lesions. Learn how to use this technique in real-world patients and understand its role in the treatment algorithm for severely calcified coronary lesions.
PCI calcified lesion - Session with LIVE case
06 Oct 2022 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2022
Watch this LIVE case preceded by a discussion regarding the PCI of a calcified lesion on a 75-year-old male with hypertension and hyperlipidemia who presented with Class III angina. Non-invasive evaluation showed significant LAD and RCA disease, normal LVEF and no significant valvular disease...
EXpansion of stents after Intravascular lithoTripsy versus conventional predilatation in CALCified coronary arteries: the EXIT-CALC – a prospective, randomized study
20 Sep 2022
Pierre Deharo and Michele Pighi share with us their views on the EXIT-CALC study presented by Thomas Oomens at TCT 2022.
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PCRonline @ TCT 2022 - Get the international perspective!
12 Sep 2022
Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2022 - check out the list here!
Cracking calcium: best practices to integrate intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) into your calcium management algorithms
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Consult this session to learn about the best practices and tips to optimise application of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in coronary vasculature, and to discover some new calcium management algorithms to improve PCI outcomes as well as the latest technological advancements of peripheral IVL for pre-TAVI access.
Low contrast complex PCI in a severely calcified lesion: the right tools and techniques
18 May 2022 – From EUROPCR 2022
In this session, you will learn how to perform an IVUS-guided low contrast PCI in patients with chronic kidney disease. Discover how to safely and effectively overcome wiring challenges in calcified tortuous coronaries and learn about the proper atherectomy device selection in challenging anatomies.
A case of severe aortic stenosis and severe calcified ostial RCA disease
01 Jun 2022
Techniques to manage simultaneously severe calcified aortic stenosis and severe heavily calcified ostial RCA disease combining TAVI and ROTABLATION.
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Coronary lithotripsy for the treatment of underexpanded stents: the international multicentre CRUNCH registry
11 Apr 2022
CRUNCH registry aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of intravascular lithotripsy in the setting of resistant stent under expansion due to underlying calcific plaques.
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How to solve rotational atherectomy burr entrapment with a guide extension catheter in 4 steps
21 Jun 2021
In this article, the authors describe (with video illustration) the step-by-step technique for resolution of an entrapped RA burr using a guide-catheter extension...
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