This session addresses the challenges of managing difficult coronary anatomy in STEMI patients through a series of complex case studies. Topics include management of aneurysms, rare aorto-ostial lesions, thrombosis interplay, PPCI in dextrocardia situs inversus, and hybrid PCI approaches for multifaceted coronary issues.

This session presents contemporary clinical applications of fractional flow reserve (FFR) and non-hyperaemic pressure ratios (NHPR), highlighting real-world impacts of physiology microcatheter-based indices, the interplay between epicardial stenosis and microvascular resistance, post-PCI hyperemia effects on iFR, and machine-learning driven outcome predictions.

This session focuses on right-sided heart valve interventions, particularly targeting tricuspid valve disease. Topics include clinical outcomes in atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation, management in the context of left-sided valvular disease, treatment approaches for tricuspid valve endocarditis, and advances in transcatheter therapies and device placements.

This session presents comprehensive insights from real-world transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) practice, including sex differences in coronary assessment, the impact of general anesthesia on aortic valve gradients, early rehospitalisation rates, and the management of TAVI in patients with prior hip arthroplasty. Additionally, it explores multinational...

Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, get the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2024 - check out the list below.

Femoral artery pseudoaneurysm is a known complication following cardiac catheterization. Rarely, expansion of the pseudoaneurysm can occur and is often catastrophic. We describe a unique method employed by our centre to deal with such a complication.

Yohei Ohno provides his takeaways from the results of the Evolut Low Risk trial which was presented by Michael J. Reardon during the ACC.25 in Chicago.

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...

Jonathan Curio provides his take on the PROTECTED TAVR study which was presented by Samir R. Kapadia at TCT 2022. The aim was to evaluate whether TAVR with cerebral embolic protection would reduce the rate of clinical stroke in transfemoral TAVR.

Luigi Biasco provides his take on the clinical trial presented by John K. Forrest from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA during the 2023 ACC/WCC annual congress held in New Orleans, Louisiana.