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Elixir Medical completes enrollment in BIOADAPTOR randomized controlled trial of Dynamx Coronary Bioadaptor System

15 Feb 2022

Frequency and safety of bioprosthetic valve fracture in patients undergoing valve in valve TAVR for failed surgical valves using the SAPIEN 3/Ultra Valves: Insights from real-world data

19 Sep 2022

Michele Pighi provides his take on this trial which aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of VIV-TAVI with or without bioprosthetic valve fracture. It was presented by Santiago Garcia during the TCT Congress 2022.

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Michele Pighi

FAVOR III China: Angiographic quantitative flow ratio-guided coronary intervention - a multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled trial

04 Nov 2021

Nicola Ryan provides her take on this investigator initiated, multicentre, randomised, blinded, sham controlled trial compares clinical outcomes of QFR versus angiography guided strategies for the treatment of non-critical lesions in patients with stable or unstable angina or MI at least 72 hours prior to screening....

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Nicola Ryan

EuroPCR 2024: Elixir Medical’s late-breaking 12-month data demonstrate significant improvement in safety and effectiveness of world’s first site-specific antithrombotic therapeutic compared to DES

14 May 2024

ILUMIEN IV: OPTIMAL PCI - Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Coronary Stent Implantation Compared with Angiography: A Multicenter Randomized Trial in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

29 Aug 2023

Claudio Laudani and Daniele Giacoppo report the main results of the ILUMIEN IV trial presented by Ziad Ali, from the St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, and Clinical Trials Center, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, in a Hot Line session at the European Society of Cardiology congress 2023...

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Claudio Laudani

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Daniele Giacoppo

EuroPCR 2021 - Unprecedented global outreach and online interactivity during an innovative livestreamed edition

25 May 2021

Paris, France. 21 May 2021.  Since 1989, EuroPCR has constantly pioneered innovative educational tools and formats to help the interventional cardiovascular community effectively share their knowledge, skills and practice. Rising up to the challenge of the pandemic, the 31st annual edition was fundamentally rethought, reshaped and...

Critical reflection on effective life-long learning – interventional cardiologists in pandemic times

17 Dec 2020

Because of the current COVID-19 environment with an exponential development of ‘digital format of postgraduate learning events’, often on the same topics, it seems essential to remember the foundation of effective post graduate learning in the field of medicine, and how we...

ECMO-CS – Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the therapy of cardiogenic shock: primary results from the multicenter, randomized ECMO-CS trial

07 Nov 2022

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the ECMO-CS trial, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago, and simultaneously published in Circulation. 

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Mirvat Alasnag

AIMI-HF trial - Ischemia and viability imaging in heart failure: The alternative imaging modalities in ischemic heart failure trial

05 Mar 2023

Nicola Ryan provides her take on this clinical trial presented by Lisa Mielniczuk at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session (ACC.23/WCC) – note this analysis is based upon the presented slides alone.

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Nicola Ryan

Long-term beta-blocker treatment after acute myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: The REDUCE-AMI Trial

07 Apr 2024

REDUCE-AMI is a multicentre, registry-based, prospective open-label parallel-group randomised clinical trial evaluating the benefit of beta-blocker treatment in patients with acute MI and an ejection fraction >50% treated with a contemporary reperfusion strategy.

Nicola Ryan and Ali Nazmi Calik provide their take on the results which were presented...

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Nicola Ryan

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Ali Nazmi Calik

How to perform angiographic check after large-sheath removal in single access procedures

18 Mar 2024

In the absence of other arterial access, this step-by-step tutorial shows how to perform anterograde angiography of the arterial axis after removal of the large sheath, making it easier to recognise and rapidly manage vascular complications such as arterial lesions and haemostasis failure.

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Francesco Burzotta

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Lazzaro Paraggio

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Mattia Lunardi

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Cristina Aurigemma

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Enrico Romagnoli

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Francesco Fracassi

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Antonino Buffon

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Carlo Trani

The CLEAR SYNERGY (OASIS 9) Trial: A 2x2 factorial randomized controlled trial of colchicine versus placebo and spironolactone versus placebo in patients with myocardial infarction

18 Nov 2024

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the CLEAR SYNERGY trial presented by Sanjit S Jolly at AHA 2024 in Chicago.

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Mirvat Alasnag

TAILORED-CHIP: Tailored antiplatelet therapy for complex high-risk PCI

29 Aug 2025

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the results of TAILORED-CHIP presented by Duk-Woo Park at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.

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Nicola Ryan

Surgical left atrial appendage occlusion in VHD without AF: OPINION Trial

03 Sep 2025

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the results of the OPINION trial presented by Yang Wang at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.

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Alessandro Sticchi

Robocath achieves positive results in R-Evolution multicenter European clinical study on robotic coronary angioplasty

18 May 2022

REC-CAGEFREE I - Drug-coated balloon angioplasty with rescue stenting versus intended stenting for the treatment of de novo coronary artery lesions

08 Sep 2024

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on REC-CAGEFREE I, a multicenter, non-inferiority trial presented at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

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Mirvat Alasnag

Shockwave Medical study confirms benefit of IVL-first strategy in real-world female patients with complex calcified lesions in late-breaking data presentation at EuroPCR 2025

20 May 2025

NEO-MINDSET: Early withdrawal of aspirin after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome

02 Sep 2025

Daniele Giacoppo reports and provides his perspective on the main results of the ambitious NEOMINDSET trial, presented by Pedro Lemos from the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil, during a Late Breaking Trials session at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid, and simultaneously published in the New...

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Daniele Giacoppo

Commissural alignment during TAVI

13 Sep 2023

As lifetime management of aortic valve disease patients undergoing TAVI is gaining increased attention, this article sought to summarize the principal idea and possible technical implementation of commissural alignment with current generation transcatheter heart valves (THVs).

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Ahmed Abdelhafez

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Johannes Wilde

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Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

Angiography-derived fractional flow reserve versus intravascular ultrasound to guide percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with coronary artery disease: the FLAVOUR II trial

29 Mar 2025

Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on the FLAVOUR II trial presented by Jian-An Wang at ACC.25 in Chicago.

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Ali Nazmi Calik