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3140 results
Complex CTO interventions - Part 1
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
Explore advanced techniques in complex chronic total occlusion (CTO) interventions, featuring IVUS-guided retrograde wire facilitated antegrade approaches, novel multiwire plaque modification for uncrossable in-stent restenosis CTOs, and strategic navigation through challenging scenarios. This session highlights key procedural insights and complication management strategies essential for success in...
Seeing is believing: OCT-guided calcium modification in complex PCI
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
Explore the management of heavily calcified LAD lesions in this PCRGulf-GIM 2025 session. Discover how OCT imaging guides lesion assessment, differentiates superficial from deep calcium, and informs the need for plaque modification. Learn when and how to use orbital atherectomy or intravascular lithotripsy, and follow the...
Complex bifurcation interventions
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session examines complex bifurcation interventions, addressing challenging cases such as isolated Medina 0,0,1 left main bifurcation and imaging-guided trifurcation angioplasty in acute coronary syndromes. It emphasizes strategic approaches and device selection to overcome anatomical complexities, manage complications, and achieve successful outcomes in bifurcation PCI.
Abstracts session 1
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This abstracts session presents contemporary research and clinical insights in interventional cardiology, covering topics such as colchicine therapy post-stenting, ranolazine use in chronic coronary syndrome, artificial intelligence applications in quantitative coronary analysis, and optimization techniques in transcatheter aortic valve implantation. It also explores novel predictors of...
In-stent restenosis - LIVE Case
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This live educational case from Mohammed Bin Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa Specialist Cardiac Centre in Awali, Bahrain, presents an in-depth analysis of in-stent restenosis management. It encompasses patient presentation, operator strategy formulation, and a live procedural demonstration, offering valuable clinical insights into effective treatment approaches...
Challenging PCI scenarios after CABG
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session addresses the complexities of PCI in post-CABG patients, focusing on the application of intravascular imaging and functional assessment to guide strategy. It discusses clinical and anatomical factors influencing the choice between native vessel and graft PCI, and explores management techniques for unyielding graft lesions,...
All things vascular
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session presents a comprehensive exploration of vascular interventions, highlighting advanced techniques such as retrograde tibial artery approaches for long CTO lesions in the superficial femoral artery, catheter-directed thrombectomy for bilateral pulmonary embolism, and innovative endovascular management of pulmonary haemorrhages in Eisenmenger syndrome. Case reports and...
Calcified lesions: caught between a rock and a hard place
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session focuses on the challenges of treating calcified coronary lesions, emphasizing the use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided rotablation and the limitations of rotatripsy in complex bifurcation angioplasty. It covers innovative strategies including off-label Shockwave lithotripsy in stented lesions, management of calcified nodules, and approaches to...
Challenging Cases
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session presents a series of challenging cardiology cases that span a spectrum of clinical scenarios, including innovative approaches to hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy management, rare coronary artery anomalies, fibrous lesions, and unusual acute coronary syndromes. These case studies highlight diagnostic complexities and therapeutic strategies essential for...
Challenging cases from the East
10 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session from Eastern cardiology centers addresses complex interventional challenges including recurrent left internal mammary artery (LIMA) failure, management of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) complications, and treatment of heavily calcified coronary lesions. Through detailed case presentations and key learnings, it offers valuable insights into successful...
TAVI - LIVE Case
11 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This educational session features a live case presentation from King Faisal Cardiac Center focusing on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). It encompasses comprehensive patient evaluation, detailed imaging analysis, strategic procedural planning, and the execution of the TAVI procedure, providing an in-depth learning experience from a high-volume...
Coronary Pot Pourri - 2
11 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session presents a diverse range of complex coronary interventions, highlighting advanced techniques and strategies. Topics include the use of ECMO support for high-risk PCI and TAVI in cardiogenic shock, innovative approaches in left main interventions, challenging stent optimisation, and management of patients with combined severe...
Innovations in stentless coronary intervention: from DCB technologies to bioresorbable scaffolds
11 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session delves into the evolving landscape of stentless coronary interventions, focusing on the structural diversity of Drug-Coated Balloons (DCB) and the promising future of bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS). It emphasizes the role of intracoronary imaging, particularly OCT, in optimizing these therapies. Attendees gain a comprehensive understanding...
NIRS-guided PCI: beyond calcium to precision PCI
11 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session explores how near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is redefining PCI by revealing what angiography cannot see. By identifying lipid-rich and vulnerable plaques, NIRS helps anticipate procedural risk and refine decision-making before stent implantation. The session shows how plaque composition, rather than calcium alone, can guide lesion...
Renal denervation today and tomorrow
11 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
Renal denervation is re-emerging as a valuable therapeutic option for selected patients with hypertension.
This session explores how current evidence, consensus statements, and guidelines inform patient selection for ultrasound renal denervation, while providing practical insight into how the procedure is performed in daily practice.
Beyond the technical aspects,...
Vascular interventions for the invasive cardiologist
11 Dec 2025 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2025
This session delivers a comprehensive overview of recent guideline changes in peripheral vascular disease and shares expert cardiologist experiences in various vascular interventions through case-based discussions. It also focuses on recognizing and managing peripheral vascular complications effectively to optimize patient outcomes.
RIVER: Rivaroxaban for valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation
05 Sep 2023
Alex Sticchi provides his take on the results of the RIVER trial, which were presented by Pedro Gabriel Barros E Silva during the ESC 2023 congress in Amsterdam.
Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Patients with Bioprosthetic Valves According to Valvular Heart Disease Etiology, and Thrombotic and Bleeding Risks: Insights from...
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The JenaValve Trilogy™ heart valve system in high surgical risk patients with symptomatic, severe aortic regurgitation: The ALIGN AR Trial
25 Oct 2023
Nicola Ryan provides her take on the ALIGN AR trial which was presented by Vinod H. Thourani at TCT Congress 2023. The Align AR trial is a prospective single-arm investigation device exemption study assessing the safety and efficacy of the Trilogy transcatheter heart valve system in patients with...
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TRILUMINATE pivotal: A landmark randomized clinical trial of transcatheter tricuspid valve edge-to-edge repair for tricuspid regurgitation
04 Mar 2023
Jonathan Curio and Alex Sticchi provide their take on this clinical trial which was presented by Paul Sorajja at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session (ACC.23/WCC).
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TRI.fr trial - Multicentric randomised evaluation of the transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in the treatment of severe isolated secondary tricuspid regurgitation
31 Aug 2024
Alex Sticchi provides his take on the results of the TRI.FR trial presented by Erwan Donal at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.
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