This session addresses the prevention and management strategies for complications arising during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It presents real-world cases including management of entrapped guidewires, thrombosed aneurysms, catheter kinking, stent retrieval challenges, and complex retrieval scenarios, offering valuable insights into effective complication resolution techniques.

This session addresses real-world challenges in multivessel PCI for stable and acute coronary syndromes, emphasizing decision-making, procedure planning, and complication management. It highlights the application of imaging, physiology, and contemporary tools such as DCB to optimize outcomes through illustrative cases from Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, and the...

Explore a multi-device strategy for tackling complex calcified coronary lesions in this session. It includes case studies on left main trifurcation stenting, resistant calcified nodules treated with orbital atherectomy, severe restenosis, and critical calcifications in challenging anatomies, showcasing advanced techniques for plaque modification and lesion management.

This session highlights innovative transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) approaches for treating aortic regurgitation, focusing on off-label uses and complex cases. It features high-risk patient interventions, including nonagenarian patients, and strategies to manage severe non-calcific native valve regurgitation with balloon-expandable valves.

This session reviews complication management following tricuspid valve interventions, highlighting practical approaches to unexpected procedural events. Topics include management of TricValve pop-up complications, Evoque device challenges, acute leaflet thrombosis emergencies, and bailout strategies for single leaflet detachment in tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER).

This session presents cutting-edge transcatheter rescue interventions in cardiogenic shock scenarios. It covers emergent valve-in-valve procedures, hybrid approaches for valvular heart disease with heart failure, management of ventricular septal rupture post-myocardial infarction, and percutaneous closure techniques for high-risk patients, emphasizing lifesaving interventional strategies.

Explore advanced devices and techniques for treating calcified coronary lesions in this session. Discussions include the use of Eximer laser coronary atherectomy, novel cutting balloons, outcomes of rotational atherectomy in tortuous vessels, atherectomy combined with drug-coated balloon therapy, and calcium fracture patterns following Shockwave intravascular lithotripsy.

This session focuses on the recognition and management of complications during coronary artery disease PCI. It includes cases of acute guide catheter crises, rare post-PCI chest pain etiologies, innovative stent retrieval techniques, and critical procedural challenges, providing an educational journey through complex complication management.

An elective right coronary artery PCI was scheduled in an 83-year-old gentleman. Due to the presence of severely diffuse and calcified disease, rotational atherectomy was decided, but the burr got entrapped in the severely calcified and tortuous proximal segment of the artery...

Michele Pighi provides his take on the National Cardiovascular LAAO Registry that analyzed data from 51,333 patients who underwent LAAO procedures with the WATCHMAN device between 2016-2019, as part of the College's NCDR registries.

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.

Charles Fauvel provides his take on the RELIEVE-HF study outcomes presented by Gregg W. Stone at ACC.24 in Atlanta.

Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty has become a valuable alternative to drug-eluting stents in treating coronary artery disease. To achieve optimal outcomes, proper lesion preparation and techniques to minimise drug loss are crucial.

This article highlights key steps and best practices for performing DCB angioplasty, ensuring effective drug delivery and...

Chiara De Biase provides her take on the results of AQUATIC presented by Martine Gilard at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.