Delve into complex bifurcation PCI with detailed case studies illustrating practical approaches to challenging scenarios, including managing stent loss in stented left main bifurcations. Gain valuable lessons from retrograde CTO-PCI and true bifurcation lesions to enhance your procedural strategies.

Explore advanced techniques and decision-making processes in managing coronary bifurcation lesions. This session covers high-risk PCI in calcified left main bifurcations, distal wire anchoring for angulated vessels, and the use of drug-coated balloons to simplify complex ostial lesions, providing valuable insights for optimizing bifurcation PCI outcomes.

Address the challenges in treating patients with left main disease by reviewing bifurcation techniques, intravascular imaging complexities, and intervention dilemmas in renal patients. Cases highlight management of calcified left main disease post-STEMI and nuanced lesion presentations.

Discover novel devices advancing transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TEER). This session presents clinical experiences with cost-effective and uniquely designed TEER systems for patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation and heart failure, including first-in-man applications and case series demonstrating safety and efficacy.

In this EuroPCR 2025 session on complex calcified coronary lesions, follow a step-by-step analysis of a recorded case structured in three key phases: lesion assessment with OCT, PCI using orbital atherectomy, and post-PCI optimisation with follow-up OCT imaging. Gain valuable insights into managing severely calcified lesions,...

Experience a diverse range of cutting-edge interventional cardiology topics in PCR's Got Talent Round 1. This session features presentations on PFO closure outcomes, plaque morphology, vascular injury treatments, microvascular disease assessment, TAVI-related coronary obstruction prediction, novel FFR surrogates, and more.

Complications

Perforations can be life threating complications, but if recognised quickly and managed correctly can have a positive outcome. This section explains how to treat a coronary perforation.
In total there are 5 types.

PCR Complication Team: Patrick Calvert, Eric Eeckhout, Michael Haude, Amir Lerman, Olivier Muller

There are five types...

How would you treat this 62-year-old female patient with NYHA class III/IV symptoms, degeneration of mitral valve repair (with annuloplasty ring - 2008) with significant MR, and high surgical risk?

View the case of a 60-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism and a large TIT, and see how he was treated by percutaneous thrombectomy.

The authors present a case of percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesion in a 73-year-old man suffering from effort angina, in which they successfully performed double kissing crush stenting using optical coherence tomography.

Watch the case of a 79-year-old male patient admitted to hospital with progressive dyspnea in NYHA functional class III-IV and signs of fluid overload, who presented a subannular perforation of LVOT in the region of fibrous aortomitral continuity, and find out how he was treated.

Over the last 30 years, primary PCI (pPCI) has evolved from an experimental ‘rescue’ intervention to an essential routine procedure – performed daily in cathlabs around the world – which is responsible for saving millions of lives. However, its path to success was far from smooth.

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the BRIGHT-4 study, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago, & simultaneously published in the Lancet.

This study was a randomised control trial designed to assess if bivalirudin plus a high dose infusion for 2-4 hours post PPCI was superior to unfractionated...

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...

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the BEST trial which was presented by Jung-Min Ahn at TCT 2022.

It is a randomised, multicentre, non-inferiority trial comparing PCI with second-generation everolimus-eluting stents and CABG in patients with non-left main multivessel coronary artery disease. At two-year follow-up PCI was shown...

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.

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...