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Acute coronary syndromes: keep an eye open for unusual presentations

17 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024

This session features selected EuroPCR 2024 clinical case submissions highlighting unusual presentations of acute coronary syndromes. Cases cover topics such as a "ring" completing the "crown", recurrent vasospastic angina culminating in STEMI, myocardial infarction of unusual cause, and primary PCI in dextrocardia. Discussions emphasize the importance...

Bioresorbable scaffolds versus permanent sirolimus-eluting stents in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: vascular healing outcomes from the MAGSTEMI trial

27 Dec 2020

The MAGSTEMI trial showed larger endothelium-independent vasodilatation with magnesium-based bioresorbable scaffolds (MgBRS) than with sirolimus-eluting stents (SES). However, restenosis was more frequent with MgBRS. The aims of this study were to compare the healing pattern between MgBRS and SES and to describe the main causes of...

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J. Gomez-Lara, L. Ortega-Paz, S. Brugaletta, J. Cuesta, S. Romaní, A. Serra, P. Salinas, B. García del Blanco, J. Goicolea, R. Hernandez-Antolín, P. Antuña, R. Romaguera, A. Regueiro, F. Rivero, Àngel Cequier, F. Alfonso, J.Antoni Gómez-Hospital, M. Sabaté

EXCEL: 5-year outcomes from a randomized trial of PCI vs. CABG in patients with left main coronary artery disease

01 Oct 2019

At TCT 2019 in San Francisco - USA, Gregg W. Stone presented the results of the EXCEL trial. Read the summary and analysis provided by Luis Ortega-Paz.

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Luis Ortega-Paz

Successful Stent-less Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Chronic Total Occlusion by Ablation Devices in a Young Adult

04 Nov 2021

View this case with a 38-year-old male with effort angina and chronic total occlusion at the ostial segment of the left anterior descending artery.

Hybrid step-by-step approach to perform a Robotic DK Crush PCI

28 Jan 2022

View the case of this 65-year-old male patient who was staged for R-PCI of a Medina 1,1,1 distal left main lesion, and discover how the authors used a hybrid robotic and manual approach to perform a DK crush procedure using the second-generation R-PCI device.

Impact of intravascular imaging guidance on percutaneous coronary intervention of severely calcified lesions: The ECLIPSE trial

29 Mar 2025

Aaysha Cader provides her take on the ECLIPSE trial presented by Gregg W. Stone at ACC.25 in Chicago.

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Aaysha Cader

Performing BASILICA: a step-by-step guide to prevent coronary obstruction during TAVI

12 Sep 2025

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Ahmed Abdelhafez

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Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

Positive echocardiography data from BioCardia phase III CardiAMP cell therapy heart failure trial presented at American College of Cardiology annual meeting

06 Mar 2023