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Commissural alignment during TAVI

13 Sep 2023

As lifetime management of aortic valve disease patients undergoing TAVI is gaining increased attention, this article sought to summarize the principal idea and possible technical implementation of commissural alignment with current generation transcatheter heart valves (THVs).

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Ahmed Abdelhafez

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Johannes Wilde

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Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

First U.S. patients implanted with innovative FIRE1 remote heart failure monitoring system in early feasibility study

11 Jul 2023

PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2023: the interventional cardiology perspective!

07 Aug 2023

What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at #ESCCongress 2023!

Timing of intervention in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation

30 Aug 2023

Alex Sticchi interviews Julien Dreyfus about the design and results of the study he presented during the ESC Congress 2023 in Amsterdam, which suggests that, in patients with severe TR, a curative intervention should be considered at an early stage of the disease as assessed by...

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Alessandro Sticchi

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Julien Dreyfus

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...

Author

Nicola Ryan

Atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation: Importance of atrial fibrillation and right atrial remodeling and prognostic significance

18 Jul 2023

- When tricuspid regurgitation “begets” tricuspid regurgitation -

Reviewer

Edoardo Zancanaro

Evolution and prognostic impact of right ventricular–pulmonary artery coupling after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

19 Jul 2023

The aim of this study was to comprehensively assess the prognostic impact of TAPSE/PASP and its longitudinal variation in AS patients undergoing TAVR.

Reviewer

Alessandro Beneduce

Reviewer

Luca Baldetti

The GUIDE-DES Trial - QCA versus IVUS guidance for DES implantation

27 Aug 2023

Quantitative coronary angiography-guidance versus intravascular ultrasound-guidance for drug-eluting stent implantation (GUIDE-DES trial): A multicenter, non-inferiority, randomised-controlled trial

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the final results of GUIDE-DES which were presented by Taeoh Kim during the ESC 2023 congress in Amsterdam.

Note the assumptions in this article are based on the presentation...

Author

Nicola Ryan

TEER versus mitral surgery: Data from a nationwide analysis

26 Aug 2023

Alessandro Sticchi interviews Pierre Deharo about the design and results of the study he presented during the ESC Congress 2023 in Amsterdam.
When comparing long-term outcomes of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) versus isolated mitral valve repair surgery, the analysis revealed that cardiovascular death was lower among...

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Alessandro Sticchi

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Pierre Deharo

P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy vs DAPT after PCI with BP-EES: The SHARE Randomized Clinical Trial

26 Aug 2023

Elad Asher provides his take on the final results of the SHARE (SHort-term Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Deployment of BioabsoRbable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stent) trial, which were presented during the ESC 2023 congress in Amsterdam by Pil-Ki Min.

Author

Elad Asher

FIRE trial: physiology-guided complete PCI in older MI patients

27 Aug 2023

Luis Ortega-Paz interviews Simone Biscaglia and Gianluca Campo about the FIRE trial.
Results showed elderly patients presenting with either STEMI or NSTEMI benefit from complete revascularization, reducing cardiovascular events risk at 1 year compared to culprit lesion-only PCI.

Published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Luis Ortega-Paz

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Simone Biscaglia

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Gianluca Campo

ECLS-SHOCK: venoarterial membrane oxygenation in cardiogenic shock

27 Aug 2023

Panos Xaplanteris & Leonidas Koliastasis provide their take on the final results of the ECLS-SHOCK (Extracorporeal Life Support in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock) which were presented by Holger Thiele during the ESC 2023 congress in Amsterdam.

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Panagiotis Xaplanteris

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Leonidas Koliastasis

STOPDAPT-3: an aspirin-free antithrombotic strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention

28 Aug 2023

Aaysha Cader interviews Masahiro Natsuaki about the design and results of the STOPDAPT-3 trial which he presented during the ESC Congress 2023 in Amsterdam.

Prasugrel monotherapy after PCI with drug-eluting stents was not superior to dual-antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for major bleeding but was non-inferior for cardiovascular events...

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Aaysha Cader

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Masahiro Natsuaki

MULTISTARS AMI: Multivessel immediate versus staged revascularization in STEMI

28 Aug 2023

Aaysha Cader interviews Barbara Elisabeth Stahli on the study design and results that she presented during the ESC Congress 2023 in Amsterdam. 

Immediate multivessel PCI was non-inferior to staged multivessel PCI for reducing death and ischemic events in patients with STEMI and multivessel coronary artery disease.

Author

Aaysha Cader

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Barbara Stähli

Tatyana Brame

Toulouse, Lebanon

Peter Chang

Singapore, Singapore

Cipto Fidianto

Bandung, Indonesia

Kwee Fong Hoe

Singapore, Singapore

James Howard

London, United Kingdom

Pooi Wan Joyce Lee

Singapore, Singapore