This session addresses complications encountered during transcatheter mitral valve edge-to-edge repair (TEER), focusing on their identification, management, and prevention. Through case studies and interactive discussions, participants gain insights into optimizing case selection and implementing effective bailout strategies to ensure procedural safety.

Focused on advanced transcatheter leaflet modification techniques, this session explores indications and patient selection for TAV-in-SAV cases in Asian populations. It details the concepts, procedural setup, and material preparation for transcatheter electrosurgery, with in-depth coverage of BASILICA and UNICORN techniques, including step-by-step guidance, recorded cases, troubleshooting,...

Intravascular imaging is a cornerstone of invasive management of coronary disease, requiring specialized training to interpret either IVUS or OCT. AI can facilitate interpretation by non-specialists in real time.

Following the Hot Line session of the ESC Congress 2021 presented by George Dangas (New-York, USA), Daniele Giacoppo offers us a condensed version of this study.

REDUCE-AMI is a multicentre, registry-based, prospective open-label parallel-group randomised clinical trial evaluating the benefit of beta-blocker treatment in patients with acute MI and an ejection fraction >50% treated with a contemporary reperfusion strategy.

Nicola Ryan and Ali Nazmi Calik provide their take on the results which were presented...

Nicola Ryan provides her take on the BRIGHT-4 study, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago, & simultaneously published in the Lancet.

This study was a randomised control trial designed to assess if bivalirudin plus a high dose infusion for 2-4 hours post PPCI was superior to unfractionated...

Mirvat Alasnag provides her take on the outcomes of small annuli sub-study from the FRANCE-TAVI Registry which included 1,195 patients. This trial was presented by Walid Ben-Ali at TCT 2022.