This session will explore various cases of acute coronary syndromes caused by coronary artery aneurysms. Participants will learn about the diagnosis, management, and treatment strategies for these rare and complex cases, including the use of imaging and interventional techniques to address the underlying pathology.

This session will present various cases of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) within a bifurcation. Participants will learn about the challenges, diagnostic techniques, and treatment strategies for these complex cases, including the use of IVUS, CT angiography, and the hybrid algorithm for successful CTO interventions.

This session provides practical knowledge on the diagnosis and management of patients with ANOCA/INOCA (Angina with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries/Ischemia with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries). It covers the evaluation of microvascular and vasomotor disorders in patients with non-obstructive coronary arteries, and the causes and management of patients with...

This session features a selected abstract submission from EuroPCR 2024 on plaque characterization, outcomes, and predictors of recurrent events in stent failure, as studied using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Ali Nazmi Calik reviews Amulet IDE, a prospective, randomized, multi-center and active-control trial designed to compare the Amulet and Watchman 2.5 devices in a head-to-head fashion, and presented by Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy during TCT 2021.

Professor David J. Cohen presented the results of the economic outcomes of the PARTNER 3 trial on Friday, 5 November, in the Late-Breaking Trial session of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Congress 2021. Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai provides his analysis of this study.

TCT 2021: Radoslaw Parma reviews the CHOICE-CLOSURE multicentre, randomized, controlled, open-label clinical trial presented by Mohamed Abdel-Wahab. The study compared outcomes of percutaneous femoral artery closure using a plug-based and a primary suture-based strategy in patients undergoing TAVI.

TCT 2021: Luis Ortega Paz interviews Rafael Romaguera, principal investigator of the SUGAR trial. SUGAR is the first powered trial to compare new generation DES in patients with diabetes, and also the first to include a broad population of patients with diabetes (all-comers design). It was...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) offers an effective, less invasive therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with symptomatic, severe aortic stenosis. Although TAVI is demonstrated to be superior to medical therapy or surgery in patients who are at prohibitive or high risk for...

Launch the video to hear Marianna Adamo and Marta Sitges share how they and Julien Dreyfus strengthened the Leadership team at the end of last year, bringing welcome support to founders Francesco Maisano and Fabien Praz.
 
They explain their individual roles among the PCR Tricuspid Focus Group;...

The value of elective coronary revascularisation plus medical therapy over medical therapy alone in managing stable patients with coronary artery disease is debated. Hence, the authors reviewed all trials comparing the two strategies in this population to appraise whether revascularisation in addition to medical therapy affects...

Global burden of Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the lead cause of mortality for men and women globally. Our world population in 2023 is 8 billion! Of these, around 620 million people are living with heart and circulatory diseases across the world. Each year around 60...

 
Dear Colleagues, dear Friends, dear Companions,
 
Putting ‘pen to paper’ to draft the season’s greetings and looking back on 2020, we must share with you that this year our good wishes are rather more solemn than usual.

Indeed, as we entered the decade back in January, we...

Free livestreamed episodes with live chat for Fellows (coronary track), taking place on 12 May 2021

Free livestreamed episode with live chat for Fellows (valvular track), taking place on 12 May 2021

Free livestreamed episodes #1 and #2, with live chat for Fellows (coronary track), taking place on 14 April 2021

Free livestreamed episode #1 with live chat for Fellows (valvular track), taking place on 14 April 2021

Free livestreamed episodes with live chat for Fellows (coronary track), taking place on 28 April 2021

Free livestreamed episode with live chat for Fellows (valvular track), taking place on 28 April 2021