This session highlights technical developments in CTO PCI, featuring comparative insights from the ONUBA-CTO study on retrograde versus antegrade approaches, sex-based differences in long-term outcomes, management of balloon-undilatable lesions, the role of virtual reality audiovisual distraction, the impact of core laboratory feedback with OCT, and contemporary...

This session examines the role of drug-coated balloons (DCB) beyond standard practice in coronary revascularization. It includes discussions on revascularization strategies in young patients, rescue of early distal LIMA–LAD anastomosis, treatment of in-stent restenosis, stepwise complex CTO bifurcation revascularization using kissing DCBs, and management of calcified...

This session expands the scope of structural heart interventions beyond valve therapies. It covers embolic protection in high-risk intracardiac procedures, outcomes of paravalvular leak closures, novel aortic root stent-graft research, cerebral ischemia predictors after TEVAR, and transcatheter ASD closure techniques.

This session explores complex and complicated cases of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) beyond routine practice. It addresses challenges such as device failures, late complications, acute left ventricular dysfunction related to afterload changes, stepwise approaches to overcome procedural failures, rescue strategies in cardiogenic shock, and tailored...

This session provides expert guidance on managing calcified bifurcation lesions. It highlights identification of high-risk scenarios, the role of coronary CT angiography and intravascular imaging in tool selection, and specialized techniques for treating calcified nodules in the left main coronary artery.

This session presents innovations and insights into interventional treatments for heart failure. Topics include pulmonary artery denervation for combined pre- and post-capillary pulmonary hypertension, evaluation of extravascular ventricular assist devices, biomarker-guided therapy withdrawal in improved heart failure, outcomes of transcatheter iatrogenic atrial shunts, percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy...

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.

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

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.