This session delves into the complexities of managing complications during STEMI interventions. Through real-world cases from Algeria, Malaysia, and Pakistan, it provides comprehensive analyses of challenging scenarios, treatment strategies, and key learnings, emphasizing the critical decision-making required to navigate complications and improve patient outcomes in high-stakes...

Focused on the formidable challenges posed by coronary calcium, this session presents three compelling cases illustrating complications, procedural crashes, and successful recoveries. Participants learn detailed approaches to treating PCI complications related to calcified lesions and develop a skillset aimed at prevention and effective management of these...

This multinational session highlights advanced approaches to complex PCI involving heavily calcified coronary arteries. It aims to enhance mastery of contemporary calcium modification tools, reinforce decision-making skills in high-risk, complication-prone interventions, and optimize imaging-guided assessment of coronary calcium through illustrative cases from Bulgaria, Romania, and Tunisia.

This session provides a thorough examination of bleeding and thrombotic risks in patients undergoing left atrial appendage (LAA) closure. It reviews risk factors for device-related thrombosis, compares anticoagulation strategies post-procedure, and presents real-world clinical outcomes, particularly in high bleeding risk populations and special groups such as...

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 PASCAL IID Registry and an initial comparison with the CLASP IID. The trial was presented by Jörg Hausleiter during TCT Congress 2022.

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

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.