This session addresses strategies to optimize outcomes in coronary bifurcation PCI. It evaluates the impact of cutting and scoring balloons versus non-compliant balloons on stent expansion, predictors of target vessel revascularization using the POKI technique, and compares stent and non-stent approaches in side branch myocardial infarction...

This session provides an in-depth review of contemporary management of aortic stenosis, covering diagnostic advancements, temporal trends, and treatment outcomes. It includes insights from the LAPLACE-TAVI registry focusing on low-risk patients, discusses the growing feasibility of day-case TAVI procedures, compares transcatheter and surgical valve replacements in...

This session examines both established knowledge and novel advances in left main PCI. Topics include the use of novel stents and laser atherectomy in calcified lesions, the prognostic impact of cardiac motion during bifurcation PCI, effects of left ventricular dysfunction, and sex-specific survival outcomes, as well...

This session presents a global perspective on STEMI management, addressing strategies to reduce reperfusion delays through nurse-integrated pathways and comparing intracoronary versus intravenous Tirofiban use during primary PCI. It includes epidemiological insights from Rwanda and Egypt, evaluates thrombo-aspiration practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines outcomes in...

Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular heart disease leading to intervention. It is characterized by progression from leaflet thickening and calcification to significant haemodynamic stenosis which results in disease-specific symptoms and physical limitations as well as poor prognosis and impaired quality of life if...

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.

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the final results of the MAnagement of high bleeding risk patients post bioresorbable polymer coated STEnt implantion with an abbReviated versus prolonged DAPT regimen

Alex Sticchi provides his take on the PASCAL IID Registry and an initial comparison with the CLASP IID. The trial was presented by Jörg Hausleiter during TCT Congress 2022.

Luigi Biasco provides his take on the results of the EARLY TAVR trial, presented by Philippe Genereux at TCT 2024 in Washington.

Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on OPTION, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago.

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

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.