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

April 2019

Volume 14 Number 17

Highlights from this issue

EDITORIALS

Indications, current adoption and future perspectives for percutaneous left atrial appendage closure
Fukutomi M, De Backer O, Søndergaard L
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJV14I17A293
Treatment of mitral regurgitation: cut, clip or medicate?
Stone G, Mack M
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJV14I17A294
What do MITRA-FR and COAPT teach us about the percutaneous treatment of secondary mitral regurgitation?
Grinberg D, Donal E, Obadia J
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJV14I17A295
Transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip in a large real-world experience: lessons from Germany
Latib A, Mangieri A, Gupta T
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJV14I17A296
Patient focus in interventional cardiology: proceedings of the 2018 summit of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) – Nice, France, 20-21 June 2018
Barbato E, Mauri Ferre J, Byrne R, Roffi M, Fitzsimons D, Toth G, Capodanno D, Mehilli J, Petronio A, Chieffo A, Vardas P, Naber C, Dudek D, Haude M, Baumbach A
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJV14I17A297

INTERVENTIONS FOR VALVULAR DISEASE AND HEART FAILURE

CLINICAL RESEARCH
Incidence and in-hospital safety outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous mitral valve edge-to-edge repair using MitraClip: five-year German national patient sample including 13,575 implants
von Bardeleben R, Hobohm L, Kreidel F, Ostad MA, Schulz E, Konstantinides S, Lankeit M, Feldman T, Münzel T, Keller K
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00961
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Impact of mitral valve treatment choice on mortality according to aetiology
Kortlandt F, Velu J, Schurer R, Van den Branden B, Bouma B, Kelder J, Eefting F, Swaans M, Rensing B, Baan Jr J, Van der Heyden J
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00874
IMAGE – INTERVENTIONAL FLASHLIGHT
MitraClip intervention for severe mitral regurgitation with residual mitral valve cleft in a patient with prior partial congenital AV canal defect repair
Stys T, Gedela M, Geltser C, Stys A
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00974
IMAGE – INTERVENTIONAL FLASHLIGHT
Percutaneous repair of healed endocarditis of the mitral valve using MitraClip devices around a large mobile vegetation
Ninios V, Tourmousoglou C, Jancovici S, Kalin J
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00973

CORONARY INTERVENTIONS

CLINICAL RESEARCH
Intravascular assessment of coronary arteries in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease
Tarp JB, Radu M, De Backer O, Jensen A, Celermajer D, Sorensen K, Holstein-Rathlou N-H, Engstrøm T, Søndergaard L
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00882
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Peri-strut low-intensity area assessed by midterm follow-up optical coherence tomography may predict target lesion revascularisation after everolimus-eluting stent implantation
Kuroda K, Otake H, Shinke T, Toba T, Kuroda M, Takahashi H, Terashita D, Uzu K, Kashiwagi D, Nagasawa Y, Nagano Y, Hirata K
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-17-01134
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Procedural and one-year outcomes of patients treated with orbital and rotational atherectomy with mechanistic insights from optical coherence tomography
Okamoto N, Ueda H, Bhatheja S, Vengrenyuk Y, Aquino M, Rabiei S, Barman N, Kapur V, Hasan C, Mehran R, Baber U, Kini A, Sharma S
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-17-01060
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Pre-infarction angina and culprit lesion morphologies in patients with a first ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction: insights from in vivo optical coherence tomography
Sun R, Hu S, Guagliumi G, Jia H, Tian J, Li L, Zhang S, Wang Y, Zhang S, Hou J, Yu B
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00295
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Clinical outcomes of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds implanted with routine versus selective optical coherence tomography guidance: results from a single-centre experience
Flore V, Brown A, Giblett J, Liou K, Cranley J, Hoole S, West N
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00262
IMAGE – INTERVENTIONAL FLASHLIGHT
Delayed appearance of an intramural haematoma after stent implantation: diagnosis by optical coherence tomography
Rivero F, Gonzalez-Bartol E, Cuesta J, Alfonso F
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00477

PERIPHERAL INTERVENTIONS

IMAGE – INTERVENTIONAL FLASHLIGHT
Management of incomplete surgical left atrial appendage exclusion
Alkhouli M, Raybuck B
April 16, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01064
Coronary
Valvular disease
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