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EuroPCR 2025: Cutting through the complexity
20 May 2025
Complexity is the fil rouge of this year’s course but what does it mean to the Course Directors? And how can EuroPCR help participants cut through the complexity?
Align for the future with the Myval Octapro transcatheter heart valve series
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This EuroPCR 2025 session offers a practical and evidence-based update on the Myval Octapro THV. Learn step-by-step techniques for valve-in-valve TAVI using the OctaAlign approach, and understand how intermediate sizes and precise deployment contribute to optimised hemodynamics and long-term durability.
Clinical insights are backed by key data...
Challenges and solutions in an expanding TAVI world
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This EuroPCR 2025 session addresses key challenges and emerging solutions in today’s rapidly evolving TAVI landscape. It presents the latest evidence on valve replacement in low-risk patients with aortic stenosis, alongside strategies for navigating the complexities of lifetime management in TAVI candidates. The programme features a...
PCR's Got Talent Round 1 - Session 1
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Experience a diverse range of cutting-edge interventional cardiology topics in PCR's Got Talent Round 1. This session features presentations on PFO closure outcomes, plaque morphology, vascular injury treatments, microvascular disease assessment, TAVI-related coronary obstruction prediction, novel FFR surrogates, and more.
TAVI - Procedural complications
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Review procedural complications encountered during TAVI, including rare adverse events, management of balloon rupture, annulus rupture with tamponade, and unexpected intraoperative challenges. Gain insights into innovative rescue techniques and decision-making under critical conditions.
Prevention of coronary obstruction during TAV-in-TAV
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Examine advanced techniques to prevent coronary obstruction during transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve (TAV-in-TAV) procedures. This session presents complex case strategies including the debated chimney technique and the UNICORN procedure designed for high coronary obstruction risk during redo TAVI interventions.
Nurses and allied professionals clinical cases session
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Highlighting the critical role of nurses and allied professionals, this session presents clinical case discussions on managing brachial dissection, rare ACS diagnosis, coronary perforation, and rotablator complications. Emphasis is placed on teamwork and training illustrated by a case of acute transcatheter aortic valve migration to optimize...
Managing TAVI complications
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain expertise in managing TAVI complications including strategic retrieval of embolized valves, handling unexpected additional valve usage, managing left ventricle suicide phenomenon, and integrating coronary intervention tools during structural heart procedures, supported by instructive case series.
Nurses and allied professionals abstracts session
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Highlight the pivotal role of nurses and allied health professionals in interventional cardiology through a series of abstracts addressing radial haemostasis, TAVI nursing programs, early mobilization, radiation protection, and physiologist-led intracoronary thermodilution assessments.
How to manage coronary artery disease in TAVI candidates?
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Understand the comprehensive management of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). This session reviews evidence-based evaluation, decision-making, and treatment strategies for significant coronary lesions, including severe left main and multivessel disease, illustrated through detailed case studies.
TAVI in patients with a small annulus
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Address the unique challenges of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with small aortic annuli. This session discusses comparative outcomes of balloon-expandable versus self-expandable valves, size prediction methodologies, and management of paravalvular regurgitation in low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis cases.
Complex PCI in a TAVI patient - LIVE case
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
An 84-year-old patient with a history of ischemic stroke in 2017, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and a preserved LV function (63 %) presented with a severe symptomatic aortic stenosis. The coronary angiography revealed a severe and calcified stenosis of the distal left main.
Operators implanted an Edwards Sapien...
TAVI in bicuspid aortic valve disease - LIVE Case
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
A 79-year-old male patient with atrial fibrillation and RBBB on ECG presented with symptomatic severe bicuspid aortic stenosis. LV function was preserved, and coronary artery disease was noted in LAD and first diagonal. A 26 mm Sapien Ultra Resilia valve was implanted via dual femoral access,...
PCR's Got Talent Round 1 - Session 2
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Join the dynamic PCR's Got Talent Round 1 - Session 2 featuring cutting-edge research and innovations in interventional cardiology. Highlights include complex CTO PCI strategies, valve comparisons in TAVI for small annuli, PFO closure outcomes, long-term PCI durability, CT-guided robotic PCI, pacemaker prediction post-TAVI, and much...
Degeneration of TAVI valves: a new target for innovations
19 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Discover the latest innovations targeting degeneration of TAVI valves, including expert presentations and cutting-edge technologies like The Splitter, an enabler for transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve implantation.
The Jon DeHaan Foundation Award competition
19 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Witness innovation in action at the Jon DeHaan Foundation Award competition featuring groundbreaking technologies like synchronized diaphragmatic stimulation for heart failure and novel devices for aortic bioprosthesis and interatrial shunting.
Learnings from LANDMARK and Compare-TAVI at 3 years
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
At EuroPCR 2025, Andreas Baumbach, Christian Juhl Terkelsen and Didier Tchetche reviewed the latest findings from the LANDMARK and Compare-TAVI 1 trials—both focused on the performance of the Myval balloon-expandable valve.
LANDMARK compared Myval and Myval Octacor to leading self-expanding valves in a randomised controlled trial. At...
How to manage the challenges of TAVI in bicuspid disease?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
How should TAVI be adapted to the unique challenges of bicuspid aortic valve disease? In this EuroPCR 2025 discussion, Chiara De Biase, Kentaro Hayashida, and Didier Tchetche explore the key anatomical and procedural considerations for tailoring treatment. From selecting which bicuspid anatomies are suitable for TAVI...
Redo TAVI: how to treat different TAVI platforms when they fail?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
In this discussion, Tanja Rudolph, Dan Blackman, and Radoslaw Parma take a deep dive into the current understanding of redo TAVR.
Together, they address the main challenges faced in repeat procedures - chiefly, the risk of coronary obstruction and the importance of preserving coronary access, alongside strategies...
Learnings from Evolut Low Risk 5-year and SMART 2-year trials : from evidence to practice
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
At EuroPCR 2025, Angela McInerney, Didier Tchétché, and Ole De Backer discuss key results from the SMART and Evolut Low Risk trials. The SMART trial compared balloon-expandable and self-expanding valves in small annulus patients, showing better hemodynamics with the Evolut platform at 2 years. The Evolut...
