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When all roads are closed, open one…
10 Feb 2020
View this case of a 57-year-old woman, with a negative cardiovascular history, but who is a heavy smoker (40xday >20 years) and hypertensive, and who suffered typical chest pain at rest. She arrived at the Emergency Room of a peripheral hospital without a cathlab facility. Her...

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About a complex clinical decision...
14 Nov 2019
View this case of a 79-year-old male with a diagnosis of hepatocarcinoma and severe AVS, mild mitral regurgitation and AF under oral anticoagulation who was admitted for TAVI…

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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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How should I treat with rotational atherectomy a TAVI candidate
18 Sep 2019
This is the case of an 84-year-old woman in good general condition, with severe AVS on medical management, chronic atrial fibrillation and admitted with heart failure and chest pain...

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Rotational atherectomy in anterior STEMI
20 Aug 2019
This is the case of an 83-year-old woman with arterial hypertension, hypercolesterolemia, onset of continuous chest pain at rest with anterior STEMI on ECG and medicated with ASA and Ticagrelor and transferred to the cathlab.

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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...
Calcified lesions
05 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019
Watch this LIVE demonstration from National University Heart Centre (Singapore) to discover how they managed the case of a 69 years-old male with diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia suffering from a calcified triple vessel disease.
Defining together a treatment strategy for calcified CAD in a patient with multivessel disease
20 Jun 2019
This is the case of a 68 year old female patient, autonomous and physically robust. She has been diabetic for 10 years, but without cardio-vascular antecedents. She was admitted for chest pain at rest, lasting around 70 minutes with signs of STEMI in the inferior leads...

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Step-by-step decision planning on how to deal with a «simple surgical case», but a potentially troublesome PCI lesion
25 Jul 2019
This is the case of an 84 year old man, widower, with initial cognitive decay, living with his sons and daugthers - non autonomous but physically robust. He was admitted for chest pain at rest after weeks of worsening angina, and underwent coronary angiography within 48h...

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A patient with a severely calcified ostial LCX stenosis - LIVE Case
21 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019