Other coronary interventions

Consult this session to learn more about PEGASUS, a trial designed to evaluate the potential benefit of DAPT beyond 1 year after a myocardial infarction, with or without stent implantation: to whom & how can extended DAPT be applied in clinical practice? Discover it now!

Consult this session to discover a selection of compelling cases related to STEMI and cardiogenic shock: double jeopardy in acute STEMI, challenging STEMI in a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis and highly tortuosed aorta, ACS with total occlusion of left main, and more!

Consult this session to discover challenging cases and their management: cardioembolic AMI in a post-MVR patient, anomalous left coronary artery origin from pulmonary artery in an asymptomatic adult, PCI in a patient with platelet function disorder, and more!

In this investigator-initiated scientific project, led by Gabor G Toth, Emanuele Barbato and William Wijns, you are invited to access a virtual cathlab, where you will be presented with 5 patients with stable angina. This survey is open to interventional cardiologists from across the world and...

Consult this complications case from EuroPCR 2018 by M. Pennacchi from the San Giovanni Evangelista Hospital, Tivoli - Italy if you want to learn how to manage a Type III coronary perforation together with sudden cardiac tamponade.

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...

Philip Urban and Davide Capodanno outline the rationale behind the Academic Research Consortium for High Bleeding Risk (ARC-HBR) consensus document on defining high bleeding risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). They explain why a standardised definition of high bleeding risk was becoming “increasingly urgent”...

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...

In the last year the use of Shockwave technology has rapidly expanded, with more than 3,000 cases of coronary intravascular lithotripsy performed in Europe. Join Jonathan Hill (UK), Benjamin Honton (France) and Nikos Werner (Germany) as they look at the real-world applications of this technology. Find...

Lynne Hinterbuchner, from the Salzburg University Clinic in Austria asks David Sparv, the Chief Nursing Officer for 5 hospitals in Sweden about quality in the Cathlab. Education and training for Cathlab nurses and allied professionals needs to be standardised.  The European core curriculum leading to certification...