This session investigates the boundaries of transfemoral access for TAVI and strategies to safely extend its use. It also provides a comprehensive review of facilitated transfemoral TAVI techniques and explores alternative access options, offering critical insights for managing challenging TAVI cases.

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 presents head-to-head comparisons of TAVI devices from recent randomized trials and registries. Highlights include three-year outcomes from the SMART trial, two-year data from the LANDMARK trial on contemporary valves, comparisons of intra- and supra-annular self-expanding valves, evaluations in large annuli, the ALLEGRA trial focusing...

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 addresses real-world challenges of stent complications including loss, crushing, and fracture during PCI. Through case-based discussions, it explores complex scenarios such as stent dislodgement, embolisation, and management strategies when initial plans evolve into complicated realities.

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.

This session critically evaluates antithrombotic therapy following TAVI, addressing optimal agents and regimens tailored to patients with and without atrial fibrillation. It also reviews clinical presentations and management of valve thrombosis post-TAVI, using guideline-based approaches and real-world cases to individualize patient care.

This session emphasizes the role of imaging guidance in everyday interventional cardiology practice. Through challenging cases involving exertional chest pain, unusual coronary anatomy, complex left ventricular access, side branch navigation, and IVUS-guided re-intervention, it underscores the critical value of advanced imaging for diagnostic clarity and procedural...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused huge disruption to healthcare services and dramatically reduced hospital admissions for MI.1 In response, the We CARE initiative was created from a collaboration between PCR and Stent – Save a Life! to rebuild patient confidence in pursuing timely medical treatment and to help...

The aims of We CARE are to rebuild patient confidence and help stakeholders provide effective and timely cardiac care through knowledge, education and training.

Learn more about troubleshooting and tailor-made treatment combining 2D and 3D OCT thanks to this image in cardiology!

Edoardo Zancanaro provides his take on the ENBALV trial presented by Chisato Izumi at AHA 2024 in Chicago.

Paris, France. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients have been consistently deprived of timely cardiovascular treatment. This is due in part to measures taken in response to the sanitary crisis, but it is also due to patients' own unwillingness to seek medical help, even...

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...

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the SENIOR-RITA trial, presented by Vijay Kunadian at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the FULL REVASC trial which was presented at ACC.24 in Atlanta and published Simultaneously in NEJM.

The FULL REVASC trial is a multicentre registry-based randomised control trial comparing FFR-guided complete revascularisation of non-culprit lesions versus culprit lesion PCI alone in patients presenting...

This article reviews the current evidence on TAVI durability, focusing on long-term outcomes, device-specific considerations, and the implications for lifetime management strategies.

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the trial evaluating multi-modality imaging to determine underlying causes of MINOCA in women and men. The trial results were presented by Harmony R. Reynolds at ACC.26 in New Orleans and simultaneously published in Circulation.

Nicola Ryan provides her take on DKCRUSH-VIII, a randomised controlled trial comparing IVUS versus angiography guidance for PCI, predominantly using the DKCRUSH technique in patients with complex bifurcation lesions, as presented by Shaoliang Chen at ACC.26 in New Orleans.

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on OPTION-STEMI, presented by Youngkeun Ahn at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.