10 results for «1978»
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Imaging-guided left main PCI - LIVE case
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17 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
A 53-year-old male with a history of advanced malignancy (lung adenoma) and mid LAD PCI last year, along with multiple risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and smoking), presented with angina and a positive stress test and CT. The angiography and CT showed significant left main stenosis...
Transcatheter options for degenerated surgical aortic valves - LIVE case
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08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
A 77-year-old male with a history of SAVR in 2011 (Magna Ease 23) and moderate chronic kidney disease, with preservedLV function, presented with symptomatic severe aortic regurgitation and stenosis, associated with severe MR.
A Sapien 3 Ultra Resilia 23 valve was implanted under local anesthesia, with hemodynamic...
Transcatheter management of failed THV - LIVE case
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09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
An 84-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus, frailty (5/6), preserved LV function, and aortic stenosis previously treated with CoreValve 26 mm in 2016, presented with symptomatic degenerative stenosis of the valve.
A Sapien 3 (23 mm) was implanted without predilatation but with post-dilatation under general anaesthesia, using cerebral...
Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement - LIVE case
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15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
An 82-year-old male with a history of STEMI in 2013, stroke in 2018, cancer, and permanent AF, presented with acute heart failure with predominant right-side failure. Severe tricuspid regurgitation was identified.
The operators implanted an Evoque valve percutaneously under TEE guidance and general anaesthesia via the venous...
Advanced mitral TEER - LIVE case
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24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Join us for a LIVE case followed by a recorded case highlighting advanced treatments for severe secondary mitral regurgitation:
- A 75-year-old man with permanent AF, a history of CABG, and symptomatic severe secondary MR (atrial and ischemic causes) with low LV function (45%) underwent mitral repair with...
From the legs to the coronaries: How Andreas Grüntzig reached his dream
In this final episode, Chiara De Biase and Jean Marco trace the journey of transluminal angioplasty from Charles Dotter in the US to Andreas Grüntzig in Europe. Grüntzig's vision was to apply balloon angioplasty to treat coronary artery stenosis, for which he defined clear goals and working axes....
Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD (1938-2020): a eulogy
19 May 2020
Kenny Kent was very influential in setting up the new specialty of Interventional Cardiology based on well collected and adjudicated data, which paved the path for the subsequent randomized clinical trials. Without his contributions, our specialty may have been like many others in Medicine, just an...
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Andreas Grüntzig (1939–1985)
28 Jul 2017
Andreas Grüntzig’s vision and perspicacity drove an entire new field of cardiology. This page is dedicated to his personal life and accomplishments with a dedicated tribute from Spencer B. King III
A guide through the evolution of interventional cardiology
16 May 2017
Philippe Gaspard, an interventional cardiologist with over 35 years’ experience, was a firsthand witness of angioplasty’s early years. In his book “The History of Coronary Angioplasty” the author guides us through the field’s evolution while offering personal insights into the “paradigm shift” that followed the work...
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