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3557 results
Tricuspid TEER intraprocedural guidance
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Master the intraprocedural guidance essential for successful Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER). This session provides comprehensive insights into pre-procedural analysis, gap measurement techniques, and step-by-step intraprocedural monitoring with expert tips and tricks.

Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement - Where are we in Latin America?
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Stay abreast of the latest advances in transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) across Latin America. This session highlights orthotopic implant technologies, patient selection criteria, early clinical outcomes, and discusses future perspectives including training, technology access, and regional clinical impact.

Management of hostile access for TAVI
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Access challenges are among the most critical hurdles in TAVI procedures. This session explores how to identify difficult access routes using pre-procedural CT, and demonstrates practical techniques to safely overcome these obstacles. Through real-life case presentations—including challenging femoral access with a shockwave balloon, carotid access, and...

Extreme TAVI: bicuspid valves, emergency TAVI, dissections and more
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore extreme and complex TAVI cases that push procedural limits, including urgent interventions, bicuspid valve sizing, valve-in-valve strategies, and rare complications such as type A dissection and late coronary occlusion. This session shares valuable clinical experiences and lessons from challenging scenarios.

Mitral valve - The role of the echocardiography imager pre and post intervention
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
This session emphasizes the critical role of echocardiography imaging pre- and post-mitral valve interventions. It includes case-based post-processing with comprehensive transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography essential for decision-making in mitral TEER, identification and grading of recurrent mitral regurgitation, and evaluations related to mitral annular calcification and valve-in-calcification...

Addressing challenges in the right heart
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
This session addresses complex challenges associated with right heart conditions, featuring cases such as post-infarction interventricular septal defect with right heart failure, innovative orthotopic options for tricuspid regurgitation, and advanced edge-to-edge repair using the TRICLIP device. Gain insight into therapeutic strategies for managing severe tricuspid insufficiency...

Tricuspid valve - Present and future perspectives: a critical appraisal
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore the cutting-edge developments and practical insights in tricuspid valve interventions in this comprehensive session. Learn about the current status and patient selection for orthotopic valve implantation, gain expert guidance on intraprocedural monitoring with step-by-step tips, and understand the critical information required for pre, intra, and...

Management of aortic stenosis: what really matters before and after the procedure
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Aortic stenosis management is a lifetime strategy, not a one-time procedure. This session covers key decision-making factors, compares surgical and transcatheter options, and provides guidance on post-procedural care. Learn to individualise treatment based on age, anatomy, and risk, and plan interventions with the patient’s long-term trajectory...

Structural heart: demanding anatomies, difficult situations and unusual strategies
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Navigate complex structural heart interventions through this session focusing on challenging anatomies and innovative procedural strategies. Topics include orthotopic tricuspid valve replacement amidst anatomical and physiological complexities, percutaneous closure of Valsalva sinus fistula, extreme TAVI approaches for pure aortic regurgitation, management of mitral paravalvular leaks with...

Problem-solving in challenging TAVI cases
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore complex and challenging TAVI cases with expert-led discussions covering redo TAVI procedures, horizontal aorta anatomy, rapid pacing protocols, lithotripsy-assisted interventions for severe calcific stenosis, and management of procedural complications including valve dislodgement.

Advanced TAVI: techniques, timing, and problem-solving
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Advance your knowledge in TAVI with this session addressing sophisticated techniques, procedural timing, and problem-solving in complex cases. Explore TAVI applications in rare quadricuspid valve anatomy with pure aortic insufficiency, strategic decision-making between TAVI and PCI, and innovative solutions for managing aortic stenosis in patients with...

Redefining and optimising LAA closure - LIVE Case
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Experience a LIVE educational case from University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute demonstrating a minimalist approach to left atrial appendage (LAA) closure. Learn about the use of intracardiac echocardiography, conscious sedation, and local anaesthesia to improve safety and efficiency, along with patient selection, imaging integration,...

The complexity of transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Understand the complexities of transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions through diverse case studies addressing challenging clinical scenarios. Learn about therapeutic alternatives including TEER with pacemaker leads, imaging challenges with ICE, transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement with Evoque and LuxValve devices, and straightforward options like TricValve. Gain perspective on...

Drug-coated balloon (DCB) technology: A pioneer’s view of the historical evolution and future directions
08 Jan 2025
In this article, Bruno Scheller explores advances in local drug delivery, from drug-coated balloons to novel antiproliferative agents. These innovations aim to reduce restenosis, minimize permanent implants, and pave the way for patient-specific coronary artery disease treatments.

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BIOFLOW DAPT - Biodegradable-polymer or durable-polymer stents in patients at high bleeding risk: A randomized, open-label clinical trial
26 Aug 2023
Nicola Ryan reports on the BIOFLOW DAPT trial results presented during the ESC 2023 Congress in Amsterdam by Marco Valgimigli and published in Circulation.
BIOFLOW-DAPT is an open-label randomised trial comparing the safety and efficacy of a biodegradable-polymer sirolimus-eluting stent with a durable-polymer zotarolimus-eluting stent in high-bleeding risk patients...

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Top Interventional Trials presented at ACC.21
07 Jun 2021
Ali Nazmi Calik provides a summary and key take-aways and infographics of 9 major trials of interest to interventional cardiologists presented at ACC.21

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Future directions of drug-coated balloon angioplasty
06 Feb 2025
Fernando Alfonso and Javier Cuesta discuss the growing role of drug-coated balloons as an alternative to stents in percutaneous coronary interventions. Highlighting advantages like reduced in-stent restenosis, they emphasize the need for robust clinical studies to refine DCB use.

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