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Everolimus-eluting stents or bypass surgery for mutivessel coronary artery disease: 10-year outcomes of multicenter randomized controlled BEST trial

20 Sep 2022

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...

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Nicola Ryan

Insights from the Corevalve US Pivotal and SURTAVI trials

05 Apr 2022

Pierre Deharo and Giuseppe Di Gioia provide their take on this analysis of the 5 years incidence, outcomes and predictors of hemodynamic SVD in patients undergoing TAVI and surgery from the Corevalve US Pivotal and SURTAVI trials.

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Pierre Deharo

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Giuseppe Di Gioia

Biocardia receives FDA breakthrough device designation for CardiAMP Cell Therapy System for heart failure

03 Feb 2022

RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI: Intravascular imaging-guided versus angiography-guided procedural optimization in complex percutaneous coronary intervention

06 Mar 2023

Daniele Giacoppo reports the main results of the RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI trial presented by Joo-Yong Hahn, from the Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, in a Late-Breaking Trial session at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2023 / World...

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Daniele Giacoppo

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

TAILORED-CHIP: Tailored antiplatelet therapy for complex high-risk PCI

29 Aug 2025

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the results of TAILORED-CHIP presented by Duk-Woo Park at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.

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Nicola Ryan

Ivus or angiography guidance for PCI in complex coronary bifurcation lesions (DKCRUSH-VIII)

31 Mar 2026

Nicola Ryan provides her take on DKCRUSH-VIII, a randomised controlled trial comparing IVUS versus angiography guidance for PCI, predominantly using the DKCRUSH technique in patients with complex bifurcation lesions, as presented by Shaoliang Chen at ACC.26 in New Orleans.

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Nicola Ryan

Intravascular ultrasound-guided versus angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes: The multicenter, randomized, blinded, IVUS-ACS Trial

09 Apr 2024

Marco Spagnolo and Daniele Giacoppo report the main results of the IVUS-ACS trial presented by Shao-Liang Chen, from the Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, in a Featured Clinical Research session at ACC.24 in Atlanta and simultaneously published in The Lancet.(1)

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Daniele Giacoppo

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Marco Spagnolo

Top Interventional Trials presented at ACC.21

07 Jun 2021

Ali Nazmi Calik provides a summary and key take-aways and infographics of 9 major trials of interest to interventional cardiologists presented at ACC.21

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Ali Nazmi Calik

Implantation of the Portico With FlexNav TAVI System in a patient with aortic stenosis, severe renal impairment, and diffuse iliac atherosclerosis

12 May 2020

Real-world case report illustrating the benefits of the Portico with FlexNav TAVI system.

Commissural alignment during TAVI

13 Sep 2023

As lifetime management of aortic valve disease patients undergoing TAVI is gaining increased attention, this article sought to summarize the principal idea and possible technical implementation of commissural alignment with current generation transcatheter heart valves (THVs).

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Ahmed Abdelhafez

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Johannes Wilde

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Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

Angiography-derived fractional flow reserve versus intravascular ultrasound to guide percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with coronary artery disease: the FLAVOUR II trial

29 Mar 2025

Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on the FLAVOUR II trial presented by Jian-An Wang at ACC.25 in Chicago.

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Ali Nazmi Calik

HOST-EXAM:10-year follow-up of clopidogrel vs aspirin monotherapy in stable CAD after PCI with drug-eluting stent

30 Mar 2026

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the 10-year follow-up of the HOST-EXAM, which was presented by Hyo-Soo Kim at ACC.26 in New Orleans.

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Nicola Ryan

Comparison of a precision care strategy with usual testing to guide management of stable patients with suspected CAD: the PRECISE randomized trial

09 Nov 2022

Alex Sticchi provides his take on PRECISE, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago.

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Alessandro Sticchi

NEO-MINDSET: Early withdrawal of aspirin after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome

02 Sep 2025

Daniele Giacoppo reports and provides his perspective on the main results of the ambitious NEOMINDSET trial, presented by Pedro Lemos from the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil, during a Late Breaking Trials session at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid, and simultaneously published in the New...

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Daniele Giacoppo