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Peripheral interventions: the hidden key for complications
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Uncover the critical role of peripheral interventions in managing complications. This session shares case stories of lost stents, unusual TAVI access complications, percutaneous removal of misplaced devices, revascularisation of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms, and challenges when multiple closure devices are insufficient.
High thrombus burden in STEMI
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session addresses the management of high thrombus burden in STEMI patients. It reviews available tools and strategies for thrombus management, presents multiple case-based discussions illustrating treatment decisions, and explores the evolving role of thrombus aspiration in contemporary practice.
Electrosurgical techniques in transcatheter mitral valve replacement
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into electrosurgical techniques in transcatheter mitral valve replacement. This session covers advanced methods including the tip-to-base lampoon technique, electrosurgical laceration of failed devices, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction management, combined septal ablation and valve-in-valve procedures, and management of severe aortic regurgitation post-laceration.
Artificial intelligence in the cathlab
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the cathlab. This session covers AI applications for vulnerable plaque identification using intracoronary OCT, automated coronary angiogram analysis, rapid AI-based OCT interpretation, AI-enhanced decision-making for PCI optimization, and noninvasive microvascular resistance assessment powered by AI.
Calcified un-dilatable lesions in ACS: what should I do?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Address the challenges of severely calcified undilatable lesions during acute coronary syndrome PCI. This session reviews the impact of coronary calcification on PCI strategy, highlights pitfalls in lesion preparation, and presents detailed case studies demonstrating effective treatment approaches.
TAVI and coronary artery disease
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Examine the evolving role of coronary artery disease assessment in TAVI patients. This session compares coronary tomography and angiography for pre-TAVI evaluation, reviews safety and effectiveness of CT angiography-based strategies, and introduces the UNICORN procedure for managing high coronary obstruction risk in complex TAVI scenarios including...
TAVI in women
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Focus on gender-specific considerations in TAVI with this session. Topics include timely management and referral disparities in women with severe aortic stenosis, early outcomes from the LANDMARK trial with latest-generation valves, insights from NAVULTRA comparing valve types, prosthesis-patient mismatch data, and gender differences in right ventricular...
Calcified coronaries: novel devices and techniques
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain expert insights into managing calcified coronary lesions with novel devices and techniques. Topics include the safety and efficacy of rotational atherectomy, the distal rail-tracking technique, impact of burr speed and duration, innovative scoring balloon designs, and the RODIN-CUT sequential cutting balloon angioplasty method for moderate-to-severe...
Innovations in transcatheter aortic valve devices and techniques
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Explore the latest advancements in transcatheter aortic valve devices and innovative procedural techniques. This session presents initial clinical experiences with new self-expandable valves in small annuli, safety and performance data from the GENESIS-II study on the Hydra valve, and up to 12-month outcomes from the Valvosoft...
CTO beyond the conventional: when new strategies come to the rescue
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into advanced strategies for chronic total occlusion (CTO) beyond conventional methods. This session covers step-by-step re-entry techniques with electrified guidewires, approaches to CTO in small vessels, and indications and methods for occlusion of saphenous vein grafts, illustrated by detailed case discussions and key learnings.
Integrating CT coronary angiography into your PCI practice
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Integrate CT coronary angiography into your PCI practice to enhance procedural planning and outcomes. This session covers practical CT-based approaches for guiding catheter selection, lesion analysis, and stenting strategy. Learn how to leverage CT imaging to anticipate plaque preparation needs in calcified lesions and optimize catheterization...
Should STEMI treatment be related to specific clinical patient characteristics
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session evaluates whether STEMI treatment should be tailored to specific clinical patient characteristics. It includes insights into STEMI management in very young patients, benefits of revascularisation of LAD non-culprit lesions in older AMI patients, clinical outcomes from the NAMI registry for young STEMI patients, and...
Procedural aspects of DCB PCI
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Delve into procedural aspects of drug-coated balloon (DCB) PCI with a focus on lesion preparation, antiplatelet therapy, and outcomes in real-world settings. This session reviews the impact of pre-dilatation balloons on de novo lesions, compares ticagrelor versus clopidogrel post-PCI with drug-eluting balloons, and discusses streamlined revascularization...
Understanding research: insights from a groundbreaking study
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Enhance your understanding of contemporary research in PCI versus CABG with this session. Learn foundational research principles, latest study findings, and how to translate evidence into clinical practice to improve patient communication and outcomes, bridging the gap between research and everyday cardiology care.
High-risk PCI in acute coronary syndrome
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Explore high-risk PCI strategies in acute coronary syndrome patients who are unsuitable for surgery. This session presents insights on Killip class influence, haemodynamic support with micro-axial flow pumps, disease progression patterns in complicated STEMI, and the prognostic value of QFR-guided functional SYNTAX scores in ACS management.
The calcium challenge: stent avoidance and in-stent restenosis treatment
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Confront the challenges posed by coronary calcium through innovative stent avoidance and in-stent restenosis treatment strategies. This session features analyses on the feasibility of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) alone, its use prior to drug-coated balloon angioplasty, and in treating in-stent restenosis. Outcomes following IVL-assisted PCI are reviewed...
How to perform angiographic check after large-sheath removal in single access procedures
18 Mar 2024
In the absence of other arterial access, this step-by-step tutorial shows how to perform anterograde angiography of the arterial axis after removal of the large sheath, making it easier to recognise and rapidly manage vascular complications such as arterial lesions and haemostasis failure.
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OPTION – Indobufen or aspirin on top of clopidogrel after coronary drug-eluting stent implantation
08 Nov 2022
Ali Nazmi Calik provides his take on OPTION, which was presented during AHA 2022 in Chicago.
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The top ten impactful papers from 2025 on tricuspid intervention we almost missed
13 Jan 2026
Transcatheter interventions have rapidly reshaped the management of tricuspid valve disease, with landmark trials establishing feasibility and early clinical benefit.
Beyond these pivotal studies, a series of less visible but highly informative papers addressed mechanisms, complications, patient phenotypes, and unintended consequences of intervention.
This curated selection highlights ten impactful tricuspid...
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NEO-MINDSET: Early withdrawal of aspirin after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome
02 Sep 2025
Daniele Giacoppo reports and provides his perspective on the main results of the ambitious NEOMINDSET trial, presented by Pedro Lemos from the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil, during a Late Breaking Trials session at the ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid, and simultaneously published in the New...
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