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World Heart Day 2023: Reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease globally: beyond stents and balloons!

29 Sep 2023

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...

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Vijay Kunadian

Coronary OCT and CMR imaging to determine sex differences in underlying causes of myocardial infarction with no obstructive coronary arteries

29 Mar 2026

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the trial evaluating multi-modality imaging to determine underlying causes of MINOCA in women and men. The trial results were presented by Harmony R. Reynolds at ACC.26 in New Orleans and simultaneously published in Circulation.

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Nicola Ryan

How to perform ultrasound-guided pericardiocentesis without X-rays

12 Oct 2022

My toolkit: A problem-solving step by step tutorial provided by Christian Dworeck & Tobias Schmidt 

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Christian Dworeck

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Tobias Schmidt

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

03 Feb 2022

2022 Andreas Grüntzig Ethica Award: The Nursing and Allied Professional Community, at the heart of cardiovascular care

17 May 2022

Paris, France 17 May 2022 – On the 19th of May the Andreas Grüntzig Ethica Award, the highest honour in the interventional cardiology community, will be awarded at EuroPCR 2022 to the Nurses and Allied Professionals community in recognition of the essential role they play in...

BIOFLOW DAPT - Biodegradable-polymer or durable-polymer stents in patients at high bleeding risk: A randomized, open-label clinical trial

26 Aug 2023

Nicola Ryan reports on the BIOFLOW DAPT trial results presented during the ESC 2023 Congress in Amsterdam by Marco Valgimigli and published in Circulation.

BIOFLOW-DAPT is an open-label randomised trial comparing the safety and efficacy of a biodegradable-polymer sirolimus-eluting stent with a durable-polymer zotarolimus-eluting stent in high-bleeding risk patients...

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Nicola Ryan

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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Alessandro Sticchi

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Jonathan Curio

AIMI-HF trial - Ischemia and viability imaging in heart failure: The alternative imaging modalities in ischemic heart failure trial

05 Mar 2023

Nicola Ryan provides her take on this clinical trial presented by Lisa Mielniczuk at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session (ACC.23/WCC) – note this analysis is based upon the presented slides alone.

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Nicola Ryan

Sensome announces data from two new studies showing clot-sensing guidewire successfully identifies fresh clot to support decision-making in peripheral artery disease treatment

13 Dec 2024

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

ECLS: technique of implantation and/or explantation of the cannula

14 Apr 2023

ECLS has become an important tool in the management of severe cardiogenic shock and refractory cardiac arrest, but is often complicated by bleeding ranging from nuisance to life-threatening. Therefore, deliberate management of the access site is of utmost importance.

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Tobias Spangenberg

New insights from the early and delayed aortic valve replacement implant patients: a sub-analysis of the Early TAVR trial

29 Mar 2025

Luigi Biasco provides his take on a sub-analysis of the Early TAVR trial about the early and delayed aortic valve replacement implant patients presented by Philippe Genereux at ACC.25 in Chicago.

Author

Luigi Biasco

Early intervention in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and left ventricular myocardial fibrosis (EVOLVED)

30 Oct 2024

Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on the EVOLVED trial presented by Marc Dweck at TCT 2024 in Washington.

Author

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.

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

Author

Ali Nazmi Calik

Transfemoral TAVI in the horizontal aorta

12 May 2020

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

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.

Author

Ali Nazmi Calik

Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in patients with severe mitral regurgitation and cardiogenic shock: Insights from the TVT Registry

17 Sep 2022

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the TEER Shock study which was presented at TCT 2022 by Mohamad A. Alkhouli.

Author

Mirvat Alasnag

A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of chronic total occlusion PCI in stable angina - ORBITA-CTO trial

03 Apr 2026

Kalaivani Mahadevan provides an in-depth analysis of the ORBITA-CTO trial: a first-ever randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating CTO PCI in stable angina patients.
She also interviewed principal investigators Sarosh Khan and John Davies following the LBCT Scientific Session at ACC.26 in New Orleans and simultaneous publication in...

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John Davies

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Kalaivani Mahadevan

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Sarosh Khan

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