This session delves into the complexities of mitral valve interventions, focusing on valve-in-valve, valve-in-ring, and valve-in-mitral annular calcification (MAC) procedures. It addresses troubleshooting in high-risk valve-in-MAC cases, urgent transcatheter mitral valve implantation supported by microaxial flow pumps, challenges in delivering balloon expandable valves transeptally, and innovative...

This session focuses on the critical evaluation and management of cardiogenic shock by identifying its underlying causes and tailoring treatment accordingly. It presents complex cases including free wall rupture bail-out strategies, management dilemmas in inferior STEMI complicated by incomplete ventricular rupture, multifactorial culprit lesions, refractory hypotension...

This session addresses the challenges and complications encountered during bifurcation PCI. Topics include managing the hairpin hazard, advanced techniques for coronary guidewire entrapment, dual device failure in complex interventions, strategies for trifurcation lesions, and the implications of tissue entrapment in malapposed stents within the left main...

Focusing on the intricacies of complex distal left main PCI, this session covers challenging trifurcation lesions and emergency interventions. It includes IVUS-guided approaches for trifurcation PCI, management of calcified left main trifurcations, and multidisciplinary team rescue strategies for unstable left main bifurcation disease.

This visually-driven session presents compelling clinical cases where imaging played a decisive role. Cases include unexpected challenges following transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, severe hypertension in a young athlete, atypical coronary artery anatomy, critical moments of cardiac arrest, and unique coronary artery findings resembling a spider web.

Highlighting the forefront of structural heart interventions, this session presents innovations including novel devices and technologies from industry leaders. It features advancements such as a new transseptal left atrial fixation device designed to expand the suitability of transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR).

Register for free to this webinar on Monday 31 August at 6:00pm with K. Mashayekhi, M. Ayoub and C. Ungureanu and learn to review the recent evidence on expected outcomes after CTO PCI, and much more!

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the AGENT IDE trial which was presented by Robert W. Yeh at TCT Congress 2023. This pivotal randomized trial compares the safety and efficacy of the AGENT DCB to conventional balloon angioplasty in patients with ISR. It is the first...

Spencer B. King performed some of the first coronary angioplasty procedures in the USA—having recently received a thank-you from the first patient that he treated. He tells The Daily Wire that the steerable guidewire, rather than the stent, was the greatest advance in angioplasty and that...

Mirvat Al Asnag provides her take on the ALL-RISE randomised trial presented by Ajay J. Kirtane at ACC.26 in New Orleans.

In this article, Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk reviews the evolution of left atrial appendage closure, from early trials such as PROTECT‑AF to recent evidence including CHAMPION‑AF, and discusses its expanding role in stroke prevention for atrial fibrillation.

Kalaivani Mahadevan provides an in-depth analysis of the ORBITA-CTO trial: a first-ever randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating CTO PCI in stable angina patients.
She also interviewed principal investigators Sarosh Khan and John Davies following the LBCT Scientific Session at ACC.26 in New Orleans and simultaneous publication in...

Chiara De Biase provides her take on the results of AQUATIC presented by Martine Gilard at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.

View a number of questions of interest to the interventional cardiovascular community, as well as the real-world applicability of COVID-19 vaccine trials.