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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) offers an effective, less invasive therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with symptomatic, severe aortic stenosis. Although TAVI is demonstrated to be superior to medical therapy or surgery in patients who are at prohibitive or high risk for...

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the results of the TRI.FR trial presented by Erwan Donal at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

Paris, France, 14-17 May 2024. The Course Directors have selected 3 major Late Breaking Trials (LBTs) that will be presented for the first time during the 2024 edition of EuroPCR. These trials were selected on account of their design, outcomes and potential to influence daily clinical...

Over the last 30 years, primary PCI (pPCI) has evolved from an experimental ‘rescue’ intervention to an essential routine procedure – performed daily in cathlabs around the world – which is responsible for saving millions of lives. However, its path to success was far from smooth.

Luigi Biasco provides his take on the clinical trial presented by John K. Forrest from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA during the 2023 ACC/WCC annual congress held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Marco Spagnolo and Daniele Giacoppo report the main results of the IVUS-ACS trial presented by Shao-Liang Chen, from the Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, in a Featured Clinical Research session at ACC.24 in Atlanta and simultaneously published in The Lancet.(1)