This session focuses on the management of heavily calcified bifurcation lesions using advanced techniques such as IVUS guided guidewire recrossing and orbital atherectomy. Learn step-by-step approaches to tackle complex calcific coronary bifurcations and improve procedural success.

Learn practical strategies to manage life-threatening PCI complications through real case studies. This session highlights techniques and devices employed to overcome complications, preventive measures, and safe outcome optimization during complex interventions.

Explore expert tips for navigating challenging TAVI scenarios including cases with stent entrapment, extremely large annuli, and rare anatomical conditions like Klippel Feil syndrome. Understand approaches for intraannular valve prosthesis implantation in complex coronary anatomy.

This session offers a cross-geographic exchange on managing left main culprit lesions in NSTEMI patients. Learn different interventional approaches, risk evaluation for periprocedural complications, and diverse PCI management strategies tailored to this complex subgroup.

This session examines the management of chronic coronary syndrome in patients with low ejection fraction, emphasizing the role of left ventricular support. Topics include risks of intracoronary imaging, pharmacological facilitation, mechanical circulatory support, and alternatives like LAVA-ECMO.

Navigate complex isolated ostial left circumflex lesions with a focus on the integration of imaging and physiological assessment. Learn treatment options and optimisation strategies to improve long-term outcomes in left main PCI through detailed case presentations and expert guidance.

Explore the critical role of intracoronary imaging in diagnosing and managing coronary dissections and related complications. Through case studies, learn about bailout strategies and the domino effect of decisions during PCI in acute myocardial infarction.

Explore the application of drug-coated balloons (DCB) in challenging coronary scenarios with a focus on recurrent calcified stenosis, in-stent restenosis, and left main interventions. This session includes case discussions on plaque phenotype-guided DCB treatment, 'leave nothing behind' strategy, and complex left main PCI using kissing DCBs...

Ali Nazmi Calik reviews Amulet IDE, a prospective, randomized, multi-center and active-control trial designed to compare the Amulet and Watchman 2.5 devices in a head-to-head fashion, and presented by Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy during TCT 2021.

Professor David J. Cohen presented the results of the economic outcomes of the PARTNER 3 trial on Friday, 5 November, in the Late-Breaking Trial session of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Congress 2021. Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai provides his analysis of this study.

TCT 2021: Radoslaw Parma reviews the CHOICE-CLOSURE multicentre, randomized, controlled, open-label clinical trial presented by Mohamed Abdel-Wahab. The study compared outcomes of percutaneous femoral artery closure using a plug-based and a primary suture-based strategy in patients undergoing TAVI.

TCT 2021: Luis Ortega Paz interviews Rafael Romaguera, principal investigator of the SUGAR trial. SUGAR is the first powered trial to compare new generation DES in patients with diabetes, and also the first to include a broad population of patients with diabetes (all-comers design). It was...

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...

The value of elective coronary revascularisation plus medical therapy over medical therapy alone in managing stable patients with coronary artery disease is debated. Hence, the authors reviewed all trials comparing the two strategies in this population to appraise whether revascularisation in addition to medical therapy affects...

Launch the video to hear Marianna Adamo and Marta Sitges share how they and Julien Dreyfus strengthened the Leadership team at the end of last year, bringing welcome support to founders Francesco Maisano and Fabien Praz.
 
They explain their individual roles among the PCR Tricuspid Focus Group;...

Global burden of Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the lead cause of mortality for men and women globally. Our world population in 2023 is 8 billion! Of these, around 620 million people are living with heart and circulatory diseases across the world. Each year around 60...

 
Dear Colleagues, dear Friends, dear Companions,
 
Putting ‘pen to paper’ to draft the season’s greetings and looking back on 2020, we must share with you that this year our good wishes are rather more solemn than usual.

Indeed, as we entered the decade back in January, we...

Free livestreamed episodes #1 and #2, with live chat for Fellows (coronary track), taking place on 14 April 2021

Free livestreamed episode #1 with live chat for Fellows (valvular track), taking place on 14 April 2021

Free livestreamed episodes with live chat for Fellows (coronary track), taking place on 28 April 2021