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Positive echocardiography data from BioCardia phase III CardiAMP cell therapy heart failure trial presented at American College of Cardiology annual meeting

06 Mar 2023

Minimally invasive vs conventional sternotomy for mitral valve repair surgery: An expertise based multicentre randomised controlled trial (UK Mini Mitral)

07 Mar 2023

Reported from ACC 2023 / WCC

Edoardo Zancanaro provides his take on this clinical trial presented by Enoch Akowuah at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session (ACC.23/WCC).

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Edoardo Zancanaro

Lifelong learning, the greatest celebration of all - EuroPCR 2022

17 May 2022

A good thing is worth waiting for. Let's celebrate, we are back!

EuroPCR is back in Paris and extending the PCR family worldwide. Whether you're joining at the Palais des Congrès, in a PCR Hub, Local Pod, or virtually on the Course platform, you represent 107 different...

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Jean Fajadet

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William Wijns

Cool AMI EU pivotal trial- final results after trial discontinuation following ad interim analysis

18 May 2021

Results of the interim analyses performed after 12 months in the first 111 patients enrolled in phase II Cool AMI trial evaluating safety and effectiveness of systemic therapeutic hypothermia as an adjunctive therapy in anterior STEMI undergoing PCI as compared to PCI only. Analyses showed significant...

MASTER-DAPT: “the MASTER of high-bleeding risk trials”

28 Aug 2021

Marco Valgimigli (Lugano, Switzerland) presented the results of the MASTER DAPT trial on Saturday, August 28, in a Hot Line session of the ESC Congress 2021. Luis G. Ortega-Paz provides his PICOT & SWOT analysis of this study.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

Five-year outcomes of the randomised trial of fractional flow reserve guided PCI compared to coronary artery bypass grafting: FAME 3

02 Apr 2025

Kalaivani Mahadevan provides her take on the five-year outcomes of the FAME 3 trial presented by William F. Fearon at ACC.25 in Chicago.

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Kalaivani Mahadevan

Robocath demonstrates feasibility of robotic carotid stenting in ‘CARE’ clinical trial conducted at Rennes University Hospital

19 Oct 2023

Post-TAVI cardiac arrest associated to acute coronary occlusion: facing the storm to gain calm

26 Jan 2024

Observe this TAVI case featuring pulseless electrical activity due to an unforeseen acute occlusion of the right coronary artery, and discover the strategies employed to address and resolve this critical complication.

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Juan Guzmán Olea, Gonzalo Tolosa Dzul, Beatriz Villegas González, Jonathan Uribe González,  Guillermo Arenas Fonseca, Tomás Herrera Arzola, Rosa Gutiérrez Castañeda, Víctor Sustaita Cerda, Raúl Cruz Palomera, Arely Méndez Mercado, Darío Valencia González, Carlos Javier González Álvarez, Héctor Hugo Escutia Cuevas, Daniel Iván Pérez Vásquez, Gabriel Guzmán Olea.Specialty Hospital, Puebla, IMSS, México

Intravascular ultrasound-guided versus angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes: The multicenter, randomized, blinded, IVUS-ACS Trial

09 Apr 2024

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)

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Daniele Giacoppo

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Marco Spagnolo

Impella percutaneous ventricular assist device malrotation in social media: a call to action

20 Apr 2023

The data from this study suggest that, from a SoMe perspective, correct Impella orientation is often overlooked, and that Impella malrotation is a common issue in real-world clinical practice, potentially associated with relevant complications. 

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Alessandro Beneduce

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Luca Baldetti

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Anna Mara Scandroglio

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Mamas Mamas

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Alaide Chieffo

Pursue Classics·Originality - Gusta® Balloon Seminar Salon：Beijing Station

22 Apr 2022

The AQUATIC trial: Assessment of quitting versus using aspirin therapy in patients with stabilized coronary artery disease after stenting who require long-term oral anticoagulation

01 Sep 2025

Chiara De Biase provides her take on the results of AQUATIC presented by Martine Gilard at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.

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Chiara De Biase

How to choose a snare and create a snare to enhance device trackability in structural interventions

19 Dec 2023

Transcatheter structural procedures are dramatically increasing in daily practice. Approaching hostile cardiac anatomy may increase the risk of device dislodgment and/or malposition. In such situations, the use of a snare catheter is pivotal to enhance device trackability.

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Andrea Buono

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Damiano Regazzoli

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Diego Maffeo

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Gabriele Gasparini

The effectiveness and safety of a planned investment procedure in high-risk chronic total occlusions - The INVEST CTO single arm study

03 Nov 2025

Kalaivani Mahadevan and Sofia Papadopoulou provide their take on the INVEST CTO trial, presented by Anja Oksnes at TCT 2025, in San Francisco.

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Kalaivani Mahadevan

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Sofia Papadopoulou

How to perform ELASTA-Clip: lacerating M-TEER devices to enable TMVR

09 Mar 2026

Recurrent mitral regurgitation after M-TEER can create a challenging scenario. Discover the ELASTA-Clip technique and its key steps to enable TMVR!

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Jonathan Curio

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Matti Adam

OCCUPI - Optical coherence tomography-guided coronary intervention in patients with complex lesions

03 Sep 2024

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the OCCUPI trial presented by Kim Byeong-Keuk at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

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Alessandro Sticchi

TRISCEND II trial: Randomized comparison of transcatheter valve replacement vs. optimal medical therapy for severe tricuspid regurgitation

04 Nov 2024

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the results of the TRISCEND II trial presented by Susheel K. Kodali and Suzanne V. Arnold at TCT 2024 in Washington.

Also watch the interview with Susheel K. Kodali

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Alessandro Sticchi

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

18 May 2022

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...

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Paola Redaelli

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Michele Pighi

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in small aortic annuli: Results from the FRANCE-TAVI registry

17 Sep 2022

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the outcomes of small annuli sub-study from the FRANCE-TAVI Registry which included 1,195 patients. This trial was presented by Walid Ben-Ali at TCT 2022.

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Mirvat Alasnag