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...

Structural valve deterioration remains the Achilles heel of both SAVR and TAVI. Since indications for TAVI have expanded to low-risk patients in 2019, this clinical scenario poses a significant conundrum for physicians and surgeons, as the number of patients undergoing aortic valve interventions continues to grow...

Paris, France, 21 May 2019. Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, a degenerative disease-causing calcification and immobility of the aortic valve leaflets leading to left ventricular outflow obstruction, is the most common valve lesion leading to intervention in Europe and the USA. Symptoms include heart failure, syncope and...

Paris, France, 21 May 2019. Heart failure is a common cardiovascular disorder with ominous prognosis despite significant therapeutic advances. Mitral regurgitation (MR, leaking of the mitral valve within the heart) affects at least 50% of patients with heart failure and is independently associated with worse prognosis....

Paris, France, 21 May 2019. Intra-coronary (IC) imaging has been available for over two decades. Technological advances, with the development of new modalities and improvements in the software to facilitate “real-time” analysis and decision making, have seen an increased use for both diagnostic assessment and the...

Spyros Linardos (Greece) and Ricardo Esteves (Portugal) discuss the importance of training in developing a safe and effective CTO programme. This can only be possible with the support of the hospital directors and the help of role models. In this very long intervention, every member of...

Which physiological index do you use? Watch Morton Kern of UC Irvine, Javier Escaned of Clinico Hospital San Carlos, and Jonathan Hill of King’s College discuss the need for new options in coronary physiology and why pressure guidewire performance matters.

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Nicolas Dumonteil (France) and Maurizio Taramasso (Switzerland) talk about the relatively recent development of tricuspid interventions. Clinical and anatomical selection criteria for these high-risk patients are considered, and a comprehensive overview of multimodal imaging and devices is provided. The therapeutic options for reducing TR and improving...

In this short video, Bernado Cortese (Italy) describes the interim analysis of the Eastbourne study, which is evaluating the performance of a sirolimus-eluting DCB for the treatment of any type of coronary lesion, including native vessel disease and in-stent restenosis. The Eastbourne registry is enrolling patients...

Which is the best revascularisation procedure to use in diabetic patients? Join Marco Valgimigli, Rafael Romaguera and Rosli Mohd Ali as they discuss the challenges of performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in everyday clinical practice in these patients. The integration of functional assessment of intermediate lesions, intravascular...

Martin W. Bergmann presents the 3-month results of the PRELIEVE Trial, a pilot study to assess the safety and efficacy of a novel atrial flow regulator that aims to reduce elevated left atrial pressure in patients with heart failure. Can the device improve symptoms of dyspnoea...

Read interviews with two previous winners of EuroPCR’s unique abstract competition: Dejan Milasinovic and Yousif Ahmad