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Meet the masters: complex TAVI

16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025

This session offers an in-depth exploration of complex Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedures, emphasizing practical aspects crucial for daily clinical practice. Expert TAVI operators share their extensive experience, providing valuable tips and tricks on case selection, procedural strategies, and managing complications to optimize patient outcomes.

Mitral TEER masterclass

16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025

This masterclass provides a comprehensive framework for mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER), covering imaging-guided procedural planning, device selection, and deployment. It emphasizes recognition of anatomical challenges and strategies to avoid and manage complications such as single leaflet device attachment, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Complex CTO interventions - Part 1

10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025

Explore advanced techniques in complex chronic total occlusion (CTO) interventions, featuring IVUS-guided retrograde wire facilitated antegrade approaches, novel multiwire plaque modification for uncrossable in-stent restenosis CTOs, and strategic navigation through challenging scenarios. This session highlights key procedural insights and complication management strategies essential for success in...

Seeing is believing: OCT-guided calcium modification in complex PCI

10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025

Explore the management of heavily calcified LAD lesions in this PCRGulf-GIM 2025 session. Discover how OCT imaging guides lesion assessment, differentiates superficial from deep calcium, and informs the need for plaque modification. Learn when and how to use orbital atherectomy or intravascular lithotripsy, and follow the...

Seeing is believing: OCT-guided calcium modification in complex PCI

Complex bifurcation interventions

10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025

This session examines complex bifurcation interventions, addressing challenging cases such as isolated Medina 0,0,1 left main bifurcation and imaging-guided trifurcation angioplasty in acute coronary syndromes. It emphasizes strategic approaches and device selection to overcome anatomical complexities, manage complications, and achieve successful outcomes in bifurcation PCI.

Abstracts session 1

10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025

This abstracts session presents contemporary research and clinical insights in interventional cardiology, covering topics such as colchicine therapy post-stenting, ranolazine use in chronic coronary syndrome, artificial intelligence applications in quantitative coronary analysis, and optimization techniques in transcatheter aortic valve implantation. It also explores novel predictors of...

RIVER: Rivaroxaban for valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation

05 Sep 2023

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the results of the RIVER trial, which were presented by Pedro Gabriel Barros E Silva during the ESC 2023 congress in Amsterdam.

Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Patients with Bioprosthetic Valves According to Valvular Heart Disease Etiology, and Thrombotic and Bleeding Risks: Insights from...

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Alessandro Sticchi

RIVER: Rivaroxaban for valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation

SURTAVI: five-year results from a randomized trial of TAVR vs. SAVR in patients at intermediate surgical risk

07 Nov 2021

Although TAVI is an accepted alternative to surgery in patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high surgical risk, less is known about long-term comparative outcomes among patients with aortic stenosis who are at intermediate surgical risk. P. Redaelli & M. Pighi review the SURTAVI trial...