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Overcoming the 360 degree radial artery loop

17 Mar 2021

A 77-year-old man was admitted for an elective diagnostic coronary angiogram. Following insertion of a 6Fr sheath into the distal right radial artery, a radial angiogram showed complete 360 degree radial artery loop...

How should I treat aortic stenosis in a patient with low left main stem take-off?

17 Feb 2021

A 74-year-old female with a history of peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes presented to our outpatient clinic with atypical angina and shortness of breath on exertion...

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Maarten Van Wiechen

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Joost Daemen

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Nicolas Van Mieghem

Radial sheath fracture removed surgically after severe radial spasm

19 Mar 2021

Radial artery spasm is inevitable when dealing with small caliber one, especially in calcified radial artery. We describe a case in which radial sheath broke due to severe radial spasm and successfully removed by vascular surgical extraction.

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Aly Tohamy

Aly Tohamy

Assiut , Egypt

Coronary atherectomy via guide extension catheter for bending calcified lesions

25 Mar 2021

It is challenging to treat bending calcified coronary lesions with CA. Using a guide extension catheter-supported back-up force to advance a bulky atherectomy device and a guidewire bias to the calcified lesion enabled imaging observation and sufficient dilation using a scoring balloon, which led to stent-less...

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Yoshinobu Murasato

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Kyohei Meno

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Takahiro Mori

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Shoko Fukuda

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Soichiro Omura

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Katsuhiko Takenaka

Takahiro Mori

Fukuoka, Japan

Shoko Fukuda

Fukuoka, Japan

Soichiro Omura

Fukuoka, Japan

Katsuhiko Takenaka

Fukuoka, Japan

Yolande Appelman

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Udo Sechtem

Stuttgart, Germany

Martha Gulati

Phoenix, United States of America

Peter Emanuel Ong

Stuttgart, Germany

EuroPCR 2022: Core Team and Programme Crew

Warm thanks to all who participated in rethinking, reshaping and rebuilding the Programme of an all-new #EuroPCR for its 2022 edition

Using the PICOT and SWOT methodologies to analyse clinical studies

04 Feb 2021

Clinical studies can be complex to interpret. By applying PICOT and SWOT to trial results, readers are encouraged to take ownership via logical methods to analyse and develop their critical thoughts on essential studies.

Farouk Abcha

Essey les Nancy, France

Ahmed Abdalwahab

Newcastle upontyne, United Kingdom

Omar Abo Al Haija'a

Oberhausen, Germany

Cobi Adams

Brisbane, Australia

Smriti Agarwal

India