September 2015

Volume 11 Number 5

Editorial

The era of a new generation of interventionalists: a hybrid of a surgeon and an interventionalist?

Serruys P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A98

Time, space and leaps of faith

Dauerman H

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A99

Further refining the technique: new concepts in TAVI research

Aldalati O, MacCarthy P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A100

EAPCI community news

EAPCI Focus on the EAPCI Board Elections 2016

September 22, 2015

Coronary interventions

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Optimal catchment area and primary PCI centre volume revisited: a single-centre experience in transition from high-volume centre to “mega centre” for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Schoos M, Pedersen F, Holmvang L, Engstrøm T, Saunamäki K, Helqvist S, Kastrup J, Mehran R, Dangas G, Jørgensen E, Kelbæk H, Clemmensen P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY14M11_07

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Inter-hospital transfer for primary angioplasty: delays are often due to diagnostic uncertainty rather than systems failure and universal time metrics may not be appropriate

Tarkin J, Malhotra A, Apps A, Smith R, Di Mario C, Rogers P, Lane R, Kabir T, Mason M, Ilsley C, Whitbread M, Dalby M

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A103

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Myocardial perfusion grade predicts final infarct size and left ventricular function in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with a pharmaco-invasive strategy (thrombolysis and early angioplasty)

Bethke A, Halvorsen S, Bohmer E, Abdelnoor M, Arnesen H, Hoffmann P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY15M04_02

CLINICAL RESEARCH

A comparison of multivessel and culprit vessel percutaneous coronary intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome patients with multivessel disease: a meta-analysis

Qiao Y, Li W, Mohamed S, Nie S, Du X, Zhang Y, Jia C, Wang X, Liu X, Ma C-S

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A104

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Differences in coronary risk factors, procedural characteristics, mortality and stent thrombosis between two all-comers percutaneous coronary intervention registries from Europe and Japan: a patient-level data analysis of the Bern-Rotterdam and j-Cypher registries

Onuma Y, Kimura T, Räber L, Magro M, Girasis C, van Domburg R, Windecker S, Mitsudo K, Serruys P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY14M06_09

CLINICAL RESEARCH

A first-in-man clinical evaluation of Ultimaster, a new drug-eluting coronary stent system: CENTURY study

Barbato E, Salinger-Martinovic S, Sagic D, Beleslin B, Vrolix M, Neskovic A, Jagic N, Verheye S, Mehmedbegovic Z, Wijns W

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY14M08_06

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Five-year clinical outcome of the Nobori drug-eluting coronary stent system in the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease: final results of the NOBORI 1 trial

Chevalier B, Wijns W, Silber S, Garcia E, Serra A, Paunovic D, Serruys P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY14M12_13

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Bioresorbable everolimus-eluting vascular scaffold for the treatment of chronic total occlusions: CTO-ABSORB pilot study

Vaquerizo B, Barros A, Pujadas S, Bajo E, Estrada D, Miranda-Guardiola F, Rigla J, Jimenez M, Cinca J, Serra A

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY14M12_07

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Comparison of neointimal coverage between everolimus-eluting stents and sirolimus-eluting stents: an optical coherence tomography substudy of the RESET (Randomized Evaluation of Sirolimus-eluting versus Everolimus-eluting stent Trial)

Kubo T, Akasaka T, Kozuma K, Kimura K, Kawamura M, Sumiyoshi T, Ino Y, Morino Y, Tanabe K, Kadota K, Kimura T

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A109

IMAGE IN CARDIOLOGY

Impact of the orbital atherectomy system on a coronary calcified lesion: quantitative analysis by light attenuation in optical coherence tomography

Sotomi Y, Shlofmitz R, Nakatani S, Onuma Y, Serruys P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A110

IMAGE IN CARDIOLOGY

Reversal of flow between serial bifurcation lesions: insights from computational fluid dynamic analysis in a population-based phantom model

Barlis P, Poon E, Thondapu V, Grundeken M.J, Tu S, Hayat U, Ooi A, Moore S, Tenekecioglu E, Wykrzykowska J, Serruys P

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A111

Interventions for structural heart disease

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Clinical impact of coronary protection during transcatheter aortic valve implantation: first reported series of patients

Abramowitz Y, Chakravarty T, Jilaihawi H, Kashif M, Kazuno Y, Takahashi N, Maeno Y, Nakamura M, Cheng W, Makkar R

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A112

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

The Leaflex™ Catheter System – a viable treatment option alongside valve replacement? Preclinical feasibility of a novel device designed for fracturing aortic valve calcification

Jonas M, Rozenman Y, Moshkovitz Y, Hamdan A, Kislev Y, Tirosh N, Sax S, Trumer D, Golan E, Raanani E

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY14M11_10

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Proof of concept of FOLDAVALVE, a novel 14 Fr totally repositionable and retrievable transcatheter aortic valve

Kheradvar A, Groves E, Tseng E

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJY15M03_04

IMAGE IN CARDIOLOGY

Unintentional sealing of the mitral valve with a second MitraClip. “Once bitten, twice shy”

Alipour A, Swaans M, Post M, Rensing B, Eefting F, Van der Heyden J

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A115

IMAGE IN CARDIOLOGY

CoreValve Evolut R implantation as valve-in-valve in an Edwards SAPIEN 3 to treat paravalvular regurgitation

Bruschi G, Soriano F, Musca F, Nava S, Einaudi A, Garascia A, Belli O, Barosi A, Fratto P, Colombo P, Russo C, Gagliardone M, Klugmann S

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A116

IMAGE IN CARDIOLOGY

Treatment of pure aortic insufficiency after aortic stentless valve implantation: increasing safety with a transcatheter inflatable fully repositionable valve

Kische S, D’Ancona G, Ortak J, Ince H

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A117

IMAGE IN CARDIOLOGY

Early hypoattenuated leaflet thickening and restricted leaflet motion of a Lotus transcatheter heart valve detected by 4D computed tomography angiography

Schoechlin S, Ruile P, Neumann F, Pache G

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A118

Interventions for hypertension and heart failure

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Sympathetic denervation of heart and kidney induces similar effects on ventricular electrophysiological properties

Huang B, Yu L, He B, Wang S, Lu Z, Liao K, Wang Z, Zhou X, He W, Jiang H

September 22, 2015 | 10.4244/EIJV11I5A119

How should i treat?

How should I treat a significant and inoperable left main coronary atherosclerotic disease (LMCAD) in the setting of a severely depressed left ventricular systolic function and severe aorto-iliac atherosclerotic disease?

Volume 11 Number 5

Editorial

EAPCI community news

Coronary interventions

Interventions for structural heart disease

Interventions for hypertension and heart failure

How should i treat?

Coronary

Valvular disease

Heart failure

Peripheral

Hypertension

Stroke