Other peripheral interventions

Consult this session if you want to learn radial from A to Z: safe procedures and access, if you want to understand a step wise itinerary to safe radial puncture, troubleshooting and the difference between complication and trouble.

Born in 2000, World Heart Day is an initiative of the World Heart Federation. All over the World – in nearly 100 countries - member organisations will set up thousands of educational activities and events in order everyone feels involved in protecting themselves from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide killing 17.5 million a year.

The new joint ESC/ESVS guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases (PAD) have been profoundly updated thanks to the active collaboration between the European Society of Cardiology and the European Society for Vascular Surgery. In this document, the term ‘peripheral arterial diseases’ encompasses all arterial diseases other than coronary arteries and the aorta. In particular, the document addresses only PADs secondary to atherosclerosis, with a few exceptions in specific areas where nonatherosclerotic diseases are a frequent differential diagnosis (e.g. fibromuscular dysplasia in renal arteries) .

Consult this LIVE case on a distal aorta stenosis, that includes a LIVE demonstration from Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care & Research - Cotignola, Italy.

A 42-year-old male with severe bilateral claudication:

While we are used to treating coronary artery disease, interventional cardiologists need to keep in mind that many of these patients have a silent form of vascular involvement because of atherosclerosis. S. Redwood, F. Ribichini and M. Roffi focus on this complex topic and the implications of taking charge of patients with diffuse disease. What current evidence exists in this often older and sicker population? On what level should management begin? Why is the best treatment one that is provided by a clinician working with a team of dedicated specialists in a “patient-centred” approach? Learn the details here…

How do you manage an obstruction to the superficial femoral artery? Join E. Stabile and R. Lorenzoni as they discuss the details of this complex situation. What is the appropriate definition for a long lesion? What new devices, such as drug-eluting balloons or DES are now available and why is advance preparation of the vessel, such as debulking, an often necessary and recommended step? Watch now…

Atherosclerosis might be the same disease wherever it is found, our endovascular procedures may be similar, but the target organs are different – what do you need to know?  Join M. Roffi and P. Musialek as they look at endovascular treatments in the common femoral artery, the role of drug-eluting balloons, reconstruction of an abdominal aortic aneurysm or complex aortoiliac endovascular repair and carotid artery stenting with the new generation of distal protection devices...

This interview was filmed at EuroPCR 2017.

Consult this session on radial access: advances in procedural techniques if you want to learn more about the pedictors of spasm during transradial PCI.