Forty years ago, Andreas Grüntzig performed the world’s first coronary angioplasty (PCI)—fundamentally changing the management of coronary artery disease. Bernhard Meier, who worked with A. Grüntzig and actually identified the patient for the procedure, talks to The Daily Wire about this first procedure and about his...

Celebrating 40 years of Angioplasty, one of modern medicine's greatest adventures at EuroPCR 2017! Watch the video presented at the Opening Ceremony - emotion guaranteed.

Antonio Colombo believes that understanding the history of angioplasty is important because it enables you to know “how things are shaped, how difficulties are overcome, and how you are able to use intelligence, persistence, and knowledge to achieve goals”. In this interview with The Daily Wire,...

Interested in learning about the origins, evolution and future of the interventional cardiology field, follow the traveling Expo arround the world and Join the conversation about the history of angioplasty on Twitter by using the hashtag #angio40

Patrick Serruys has been instrumental in developing several key innovations in coronary angioplasty, including drug-eluting stents and quantitative coronary angiography. Furthermore, he became interested in developing bioresorbable scaffolds when he felt guilty about implanting a metallic stent into such “delicate biological structure” as the coronary vessel.

There were many precursors to Andreas Grüntzig whose work made his achievement possible. The Exposition features a gallery of six of these pioneers. One such visionary was Charles Dotter (1920–1985), who in 1963, with the first use of a diagnostic catheter for a therapeutic purpose, invented...

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...

The above guideline was published during the 2022 ESC Congress in Barcelona and was chaired by Professor Julinda Mehilli (Germany) and Professor Sigrun Halvorsen (Norway). This guideline was developed by the task force for cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery of the European Society...

Watch this video on T and small protrusion (TAP) stenting to learn more about the steps of the intervention, the technical pitfalls and solutions, as well as the limitations of angiography to accurately assess stent geometry.

This toolbox provides interesting information on which expandable sheath fits which prosthesis.

Tor Biering-Sørensen talks with Aaysha Cader about the results of the DANFLU-1 trial which were presented during ESC Congress 2022 in Barcelona. In fact, elderly adults who received a high-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine compared with a standard dose saw significantly reduced risk of death and hospitalization...

Mirvat Alasnag interviews Luigi Biasco, first author of the MitraSwiss Registry which was presented at the ESC Congress 2022 in Barcelona. Together, they discuss the enrolled population, the inclusion criteria, the design and outcomes of MitraSwiss, its comparison with other European registries and the restoration of...

These 3 innovative PCR Webinars are the work of the PCR Tricuspid Focus Group. To learn more about this initiative’s mission and its five ongoing working groups dedicated to improving the treatment of patients with tricuspid valve disease, please click here.

View this series of 3 case-based webinars if...

PCR Webinar with M. Metra, F. Praz, M. Sitges, E. Donal, R. Hahn, D. Muraru and Y. Topilsky

The ST-OHCA study is a single centre prospective study investigating the incidence, timing and predictors of definite stent thrombosis in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) undergoing immediate PCI and therapeutic hypothermia.

PCR Webinar on tricuspid valve disease with F. Maisano, R. von Bardeleben, J. L. Zamorano, J. Cavalcante, P. Lurz and G. Nickenig

Watch the replay of this PCR Webinar on tricuspid valve management with L. Sondergaard, H. Treede, N. Wunderlich, L. Conradi, J. Hausleiter and A. Latib

Learning objectives

Attend this series of 2 webinars if you want to:

• Demonstrate MitraClip effectiveness and improved outcomes in broad spectrum of patients
• Illustrate the reality in clinical practice of COAPT type patients
• Review the real-world data from EXPAND study and new generation solution advances
• Learn about the expanded treatment options and...