Optimize chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI outcomes through lesion selection strategies. This session reviews coronary calcium patterns via CT, target vessel considerations, distal vessel remodeling, imaging-guided versus conventional approaches, and complex lesion cases.

Discover a streamlined approach to pulmonary embolism treatment in this EuroPCR 2025 session. Learn how ultrasound-assisted thrombolysis improves right ventricular function and pulmonary perfusion while enabling timely reperfusion with low-dose thrombolytic therapy delivered directly to the clot. Explore the latest data from the HI-PEITHO randomised trial...

Address the unique challenges of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with small aortic annuli. This session discusses comparative outcomes of balloon-expandable versus self-expandable valves, size prediction methodologies, and management of paravalvular regurgitation in low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis cases.

Join this session if you want to understand and optimise treatment strategies for LM bifurcation lesions, specifically: Understanding LM bifurcation anatomy and physiology, choosing the best stent strategy, optimising stent deployment and results.

LIVE Case from Groote Schuur Hospital Cape Town

Watch this session if you want to understand the challenges and risks when treating calcified lesions, to learn how to accurately assess coronary calcification, to learn how to utilise the tools available for treating calcified lesions.

LIVE Case from Groote Schuur Hospital Cape Town

Jean Fajadet, Bernard Prendergast and William Wijns reflect on 2023’s progress and achievements. As they look forward to 2024 their vision for PCR is clear: continue advancing cardiovascular care through promoting community knowledge, skills and experience sharing.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) offers an effective, less invasive therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with symptomatic, severe aortic stenosis. Although TAVI is demonstrated to be superior to medical therapy or surgery in patients who are at prohibitive or high risk for...

A decade already passed from the first use of bioresorbable vascular scaffold in percutaneous coronary interventions. The first studies - by using surrogate endpoints - showed some superiority of BRS vs. metallic drug-eluting stent in terms of the so-called vascular restoration therapy with recovery of vasomotion...

The ISCHEMIA trial found no significant difference between an invasive vs. a conservative strategy in patients with chronic coronary syndromes and moderate to severe ischemia at a mean of 3.2 years. However, the cumulative difference in the estimates of cardiac death between the invasive and conservative...

The European Bifurcation Club Left Main (EBC MAIN) trial addressed the issue of provisional single stent versus upfront double stenting in 467 patients with true bifurcation distal left main disease. 

So far, only one other randomized trial, DKCRUSH-V (n=482), has addressed the same research question, showing better...

Air embolism (AE) is a rare complication during interventional procedures and one of the most scaring for interventional cardiologists. Air bubbles in the coronary circulation often result in ischemic symptoms, vasospasm, and even cardiac arrest. In addition, arrhythmias are common and closely related to the coronary ...

Elad Asher provides his take on the ASSURE DES trial presented by Jung-Min Ahn at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.

Examination of the study methodology and results according to the PICOT principle, SWOT analysis and real-world applicability

Results of the interim analyses performed after 12 months in the first 111 patients enrolled in phase II Cool AMI trial evaluating safety and effectiveness of systemic therapeutic hypothermia as an adjunctive therapy in anterior STEMI undergoing PCI as compared to PCI only. Analyses showed significant...

Make the most of the insights from Jacob Thomsen Loenborg’s interview with Chiara De Biase and Ali Nazmi Calik’s article to capture the key takeaways from this trial, simultaneously published in the NEJM, presented at the ESC Congress 2024 in London.