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Is Right Ventricle-Pulmonary Artery (RV-PA) Coupling Important in Low Risk TAVR?

TAVR has long been an effective strategy to treat aortic stenosis. However, ventricular damage starts further before...

Devices to Prepare Severely Calcified Lesions: Is There a Difference When Assessed by Intravascular Imaging?

Severely calcified coronary lesions are found in 25% of patients undergoing PCI, and their presence has a...

Should We Start Using Ultra-Thin Struts?

The benefits of DES are well known, as well as the benefits of more recent polymer-based DES...

Calcified Lesions: CTO Strategies for Plaque Preparation

Vascular calcification is a predictor of difficult stent positioning and expansion, which increases the chance of device...

TCT 2022 | PCSK9 Inhibitor in Patients with STEMI to Lower LDL Cholesterol

In patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), early treatment with statins —regardless of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol...

TCT 2022 | Angioplasty vs. Surgery: The BEST Study Long-Term Results

The BEST study was a prospective, randomized study to compare percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents...

TCT 2022 | FAME-3 Trial: post PCI FFR And IVUS in Patients with Three-Vessel Disease

We are well aware of the benefits of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) to assess coronary artery stenosis....

TCT 2022 | BYPASS CTCA

Studies have shown that the use of computed tomography cardiac angiography (CTCA) prior invasive coronary angiography (ICA)...