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SMT Announces Completion of Patient Enrolment for TUXEDO-2 Trial

16 Aug 2024

Elixir Medical announces launch of LithiX™ Hertz Contact (HC) Intravascular Lithotripsy System (IVL) in Europe

09 Apr 2025

First patient enrolled in Erectile Dysfunction prospective randomized study with SELUTION SLR

09 Sep 2022

Simultaneous high-risk PCI and TAVI with hemodynamic support: a stepwise approach using Impella CP SmartAssist

26 Jun 2025

What’s the safest approach when surgical options are off the table? This real-life case shows how complex coronary revascularsation and TAVI were performed in a single session, supported by Impella.

Explore the rationale behind the sequence, the device choices, and the outcome in a high-risk patient with...

Critical reflection on effective life-long learning – interventional cardiologists in pandemic times

17 Dec 2020

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...

Three-year results of HOST-POLYTECH-ACS RCT comparing durable- vs. degradable-polymer DES

30 Aug 2023

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the 3-year results of HOST-POLYTECH-ACS RCT which were presented by Hyo-Soo Kim during the ESC 2023 congress in Amsterdam.

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Alessandro Sticchi

Long-term beta-blocker treatment after acute myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: The REDUCE-AMI Trial

07 Apr 2024

REDUCE-AMI is a multicentre, registry-based, prospective open-label parallel-group randomised clinical trial evaluating the benefit of beta-blocker treatment in patients with acute MI and an ejection fraction >50% treated with a contemporary reperfusion strategy.

Nicola Ryan and Ali Nazmi Calik provide their take on the results which were presented...

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Nicola Ryan

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Ali Nazmi Calik

Routine cerebral embolic protection in transcatheter aortic valve implantation: the British Heart Foundation (BHF) PROTECT-TAVI trial

29 Mar 2025

Aaysha Cader and Ali Nazmi Calik provide their take on the BHF PROTECT-TAVI trial, presented by Rajesh Kharbanda at ACC.25 in Chicago.

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Aaysha Cader

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Ali Nazmi Calik

Comparison of puncture success rate between distal radial access and transradial access in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (DRAMI)

07 Nov 2024

Aaysha Cader provides her take on the DRAMI trial presented by Jun-Won Lee at TCT 2024 in Washington.

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Aaysha Cader

Useful retrieval devices to recover a dislodged or damaged coronary stent

23 Nov 2018

With clinical tools in constant evolution, choosing the right material for retrieving damaged stents and other devices lost in the peripheral vasculature is critical. Find here a useful reference illustrating what is available today.

The Controlled Antegrade and Antegrade Tracking (CAAT) technique for left main trunk bifurcation divided by a flap-like structure

29 Jan 2021

The authors present a case of PCI for left main trunk bifurcation divided by a flap-like structure in a 67-year-old man suffering from effort angina, in which they successfully used a novel tracking technique by modifying the reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde tracking (CART), which they called...

COVID-19: safety and efficacy of the mRNA-1273 SARSCoV-2 vaccine (Moderna) against SARS-CoV-2

22 Jan 2021

Examination of the study methodology and results according to the PICOT principle, SWOT analysis and real-world applicability

COVID-19: Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

07 Jan 2021

Examination of the study methodology and results according to the PICOT principle, SWOT analysis and real-world applicability

Crash TAVI-in-TAVI complicated by coronary obstruction

20 Apr 2022

Thanks to this Image in Interventional Cardiology, view an emergency TAVI-in-TAVI for cardiogenic shock secondary to acute valve degeneration complicated by left main stem obstruction treated successfully by chimney stenting.

Successful Stent-less Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Chronic Total Occlusion by Ablation Devices in a Young Adult

04 Nov 2021

View this case with a 38-year-old male with effort angina and chronic total occlusion at the ostial segment of the left anterior descending artery.

BIOTRONIK Sets New Clinical Benchmark with Ultrathin Strut Orsiro Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent

28 Feb 2022

Swinging through the Web; Mitraclip implantation in a patient with giant Chiari Network

17 Jul 2020

A 42-year-old man with primary MR secondary to P2 prolapse of the mitral valve (MV), presented with dyspnea on exertion...

Intercostal embolization of a stuck rotational atherectomy burr

02 Mar 2021

An elective right coronary artery PCI was scheduled in an 83-year-old gentleman. Due to the presence of severely diffuse and calcified disease, rotational atherectomy was decided, but the burr got entrapped in the severely calcified and tortuous proximal segment of the artery...

Complex PCI supported by a guide catheter extension system through the frames of a self-expandable trans-catheter heart valve

05 Jun 2020

An 84-year-old man with arterial hypertension and previous hepatocellular carcinoma was admitted to our Emergency Department for new onset of exertional angina (CCS 3). The patient had a history of three-vessel coronary artery disease treated by complete surgical revascularization in 2007...

Alain G. Cribier

07 Nov 2017

In 2002, Alain Cribier revolutionised the field by introducing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) as a complementary technique to surgery. Find out more about his early life and studies.