The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)

September 2015

Volume 11 Number 5

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, Jiménez 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
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