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A simple maneuver to track the wire during a transseptal mitral valve-in-valve procedure

05 Nov 2025

Advancing a transcatheter heart valve through the septostomy can be tricky, with the wire sometimes prolapsing into the left atrium.

This step-by-step tutorial demonstrates a simple yet effective maneuver that allows smooth, controlled navigation from the right atrium to the mitral position, ensuring precise valve deployment.

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Ching-Wei Lee

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Yi-Lin Tsai

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Su-Chan Chen

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Shih-Hsien Sung

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Chun-Chin Chang

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

PACMAN AMI: Effects of Alirocumab on Coronary Atherosclerosis Assessed by Serial Multimodality Intracoronary Imaging in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

03 Apr 2022

Nicola Ryan provides a PICOT analysis of PACMAN AMI: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial presented at ACC 2022 and simultaneously published in JAMA.

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Nicola Ryan

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

2022 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery

29 Aug 2022

The above guideline was published during the 2022 ESC Congress in Barcelona and was chaired by Professor Julinda Mehilli (Germany) and Professor Sigrun Halvorsen (Norway). This guideline was developed by the task force for cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery of the European Society...

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Vijay Kunadian

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

The 2023 ESH Hypertension Guidelines revisit the role of renal denervation

05 Sep 2023

The 2023 European Society of Hypertension (ESH) guidelines were recently presented at the 32nd annual European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection and simultaneously published in the Journal of Hypertension.1 While wide parts of the guidelines do not substantially differ from the previous 2018 European Society...

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Lucas Lauder

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Felix Mahfoud

SMT’s Hydra TAVR Valve demonstrates sustained safety, durability, and hemodynamic performance at 5 Years

19 Nov 2025

PCR Seminars 2024: education brought to your doorstep!

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation without routine percutaneous coronary intervention: A randomized controlled trial (PRO-TAVI Trial)

29 Mar 2026

Jonathan Curio provides his take on the PRO-TAVI trial presented by Michiel Voskuil at ACC.26 in New Orleans and simultaneously published in The Lancet.

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Jonathan Curio

Effective techniques for performing DCB angioplasty

16 Jan 2025

Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty has become a valuable alternative to drug-eluting stents in treating coronary artery disease. To achieve optimal outcomes, proper lesion preparation and techniques to minimise drug loss are crucial.

This article highlights key steps and best practices for performing DCB angioplasty, ensuring effective drug delivery and...

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Valeria Paradies

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Gianluca Mincione

Performing BASILICA: a step-by-step guide to prevent coronary obstruction during TAVI

05 Aug 2025

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Ahmed Abdelhafez

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Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

EuroPCR 2024: Primary outcomes from PINNACLE I clinical trial establish safety and effectiveness of Elixir Medical’s Hertz Contact Intravascular Lithotripsy System for calcium fragmentation in moderate to severe calcified coronary artery lesions

16 May 2024

2024 ESC Guidelines: Peripheral arterial and aortic diseases - Focus on Peripheral Arterial Diseases

09 Sep 2024

The 2024 ESC Guidelines for aortic diseases, merged with peripheral arterial disease guidelines, update prior guidance and emphasize atherosclerotic conditions. In this article, Antoine Sauguet summarizes the content related to peripheral arterial diseases.

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Antoine Sauguet

Foldax announces positive one-year data on TRIA Mitral Valve

27 Jun 2025

Pi-Cardia’s ShortCut™ Becomes First Leaflet Modification Technology to Receive CMS NTAP for Valve-in-Valve TAVR

06 Aug 2025

Jupiter Endovascular closes oversubscribed Series B Financing, surpassing $40 million target

07 Oct 2025

The Lancet Commission to reduce global burden of cardiovascular disease in women by 2030

29 Aug 2021

Vijay Kunadian summarizes the key points of the LBT session of the ESC congress 2021 held on Sunday, 29 August focusing on the Lancet Commission to reduce the global burden of heart disease in women by 2030.

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Vijay Kunadian

A percutaneous solution to transcatheter aortic valve thrombosis refractory to anticoagulation: valve-in-valve implantation of a supra-annular self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve

03 Aug 2020

A 56-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis underwent transapical TAVR in 2012. In 2017, the patient was referred for exertion dyspnea and transesophageal echocardiogram showed severe stenosis of the bioprosthesis...

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2023: the interventional cardiology perspective!

07 Aug 2023

What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2023!