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Transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve, valve-in-ring, and valve-in-MAC
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session provides an expert overview of transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve, valve-in-ring, and valve-in-MAC procedures. It focuses on unique anatomical and technical considerations, advanced imaging and pre-procedural planning methods, and procedural techniques including device selection and sizing, guided by experienced high-volume operators to optimize procedural success.
Featured research - Mitral valve interventions: Physiology & device innovation
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session highlights groundbreaking research on mitral valve interventions featuring advanced transcatheter techniques. Topics include coronary physiology assessment with vFFR in severe mitral regurgitation, predictive versus actual outcomes in TMVR, innovative devices like Epygon and INNOVALVE, and novel approaches such as the ReNiva posterior leaflet replacement...
Featured research - Tricuspid valve intervention: the TRIPLACE registry
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session features cutting-edge research on tricuspid valve interventions, including insights from the TRIPLACE registry on orthotopic TTVR thrombosis, predictive value of three-dimensional tricuspid annulus measurements for procedural outcomes, early clinical experiences with novel TTVR systems, and procedural clipping strategies based on results from the BRIGHT...
Left atrial appendage occlusion
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on the complexities and innovations in left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) procedures. It covers transesophageal ICE monitoring, challenges posed by existing atrial septal occluders, combined surgical and percutaneous approaches, and the practical experience with the Ultraseal device. These insights advance understanding of procedural...
Featured research - TAVI: Predictive tools, AI innovation and reintervention strategies
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents cutting-edge research in TAVI, covering the development of predictive models for clinical valve thrombosis, comparative analyses between self-expandable and balloon-expandable valves from the Greek TAVI registry, and the emerging role of AI-guided Heart Team decisions. It also examines outcomes of reintervention strategies following...
TAVI: complex vascular access
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses the challenges of complex vascular access in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). It discusses strategies for navigating difficult thoraco-abdominal aortic anatomies, managing double aortic arches, and overcoming hostile femoral access. Case studies illustrate meticulous planning and innovative solutions essential for successful TAVI in...
TAVI valve-in-valve - Challenging clinical scenarios
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on the complexities of valve-in-valve TAVI procedures, highlighting challenging clinical scenarios such as managing severely regurgitant rapid deployment valves and degenerated stentless bioprostheses. It provides detailed insights into overcoming procedural barriers and strategies for complex valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) interventions.
TAVI: nightmare in the cathlab - Annular perforation, coronary obstruction & balloon rupture
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents critical case analyses of complicated TAVI procedures, highlighting unexpected and severe intra-procedural events such as annular perforation, leaflet modification complications, coronary obstructions, and device failures. It emphasizes prevention strategies, bailout techniques, and acute management to prepare clinicians for handling TAVI-related emergencies effectively.
TAVI: alternative access
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses alternative access routes for TAVI in patients with challenging vascular anatomies. It includes innovative approaches such as transapical TAV-in-TAV procedures, transcaval implantation in emergency settings, and techniques for patients with hostile iliofemoral access, showcasing adaptive strategies when conventional access is not feasible.
TAVI: challenging anatomies
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session explores the management of challenging anatomical conditions in TAVI procedures. Topics include strategies for difficult self-expandable valve delivery angles, addressing complications occurring during and after TAVI, and approaches for patients with severe kyphosis or complex structural abnormalities such as aneurysms and septal anomalies.
Challenging mitral TEER: Barlow's disease, fibro-elastic deficiency & abnormal valve morphology
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session examines the feasibility and technical considerations of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) in complex anatomical and pathological scenarios. Topics include applications in Barlow's disease, fibro-elastic deficiency, congenital heart anomalies, Anderson-Fabry disease, and post-cardiac transplantation, providing valuable insights into expanding TEER indications and overcoming anatomical...
Mitral interventions in shock
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session highlights the intricacies of mitral valve interventions in the context of cardiogenic shock. It addresses complex cases including left-to-right shunts post septal puncture, severe ischemic mitral insufficiency with small valve anatomy, emergency mitral TEER for papillary muscle rupture, and bridging strategies to surgery.
Tricuspid valve interventions in complex scenarios - Part 2
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session delves into transcatheter interventions for the tricuspid valve in complex clinical scenarios. It covers techniques for native annular reduction via TEER, management of lead-related regurgitation, challenging cases of torrential regurgitation with device detachment, and innovative methods facilitating valve-in-ring implantation, enhancing procedural efficacy in tricuspid...
Primary Outcomes of a Pivotal Multicenter Randomized Trial Comparing the AGENT Paclitaxel-Coated Ballon with Conventional Ballon Angioplasty for In-Stent Restenosis (AGENT IDE)
27 Oct 2023
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...

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The greatest advance in the next 40 years would be to remove the need for angioplasty
17 May 2017
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...
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COVID-19 vaccines: Burning questions from the community and real-world applicability
13 Jan 2021
View a number of questions of interest to the interventional cardiovascular community, as well as the real-world applicability of COVID-19 vaccine trials.
The AQUATIC trial: Assessment of quitting versus using aspirin therapy in patients with stabilized coronary artery disease after stenting who require long-term oral anticoagulation
01 Sep 2025
Chiara De Biase provides her take on the results of AQUATIC presented by Martine Gilard at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.

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