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

October 2019

Volume 15 Number 9

This issue looks at the impact of an horizontal aorta in TAVI; the VIVALL pilot study using a innovative THV to treat degenerated surgical valves; the significance of healed plaques with a multi-layered (ML) pattern in patients with acute coronary and stable angina; the prognostic impact of the SYNTAX score II in STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI; and introduces the use of the CT bifurcation score as a novel tool for predicting intraprocedural side branch occlusion

Highlights from this issue

Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure

Clinical research
Impact of horizontal aorta on procedural and clinical outcomes in second-generation transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Di Stefano D, Colombo A, Mangieri A, Gallone G, Tzanis G, Laricchia A, Baldetti L, Palmisano A, Esposito A, Gallo F, Latib A, Montorfano M, Giannini F
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00455
Clinical research
Thirty-day outcomes of a novel transcatheter heart valve to treat degenerated surgical valves: the VIVALL multicentre, single-arm, pilot study
Schäfer U, Butter C, Landt M, Frerker C, Treede H, Schirmer J, Koban C, Allali A, Schmidt T, Charitos E, Conradi L
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00331
Image – Interventional flashlight
New three-dimensional rendering image of transoesophageal echocardiography for second transseptal puncture for transcatheter mitral valve repair
Nagura F, Kataoka A, Watanabe Y, Kozuma K
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00049
Tools and techniques
Single-access balloon aortic valvuloplasty – an overview of contemporary technical improvements
Ooms J, van Wiechen M, Ziviello F, Kroon HG, Ren B, Daemen J, de Jaegere P, Van Mieghem N
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00074

Coronary interventions

Clinical research
Characteristics and significance of healed plaques in patients with acute coronary syndrome and stable angina: an in vivo OCT and IVUS study
Wang C, Hu S, Wu J, Yu H, Pan W, Qin Y, He L, Li L, Hou J, Zhang S, Jia H, Yu B
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01175
Clinical research
Prognostic value of post-intervention fractional flow reserve after intravascular ultrasound-guided second-generation drug-eluting coronary stenting
Hoshino M, Kanaji Y, Hamaya R, Kanno Y, Hada M, Yamaguchi M, Sumino Y, Usui E, Sugano A, Murai T, Lee T, Yonetsu T, Kakuta T
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01032
Clinical research
Prediction of side branch occlusions in percutaneous coronary interventions by coronary computed tomography: the CT bifurcation score as a novel tool for predicting intraprocedural side branch occlusion
Lee S, Lee J, Song YB, Park TK, Yang J, Hahn J, Choi S, Gwon H, Lee S, Kim SM, Choe Y, Choi J
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00113
Clinical research
Prognostic impact of the SYNTAX score II in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: analysis of a four-year all-comers registry
Cid Alvarez A, Gomez-Peña F, Redondo-Dieguez A, Avila A, López D, Sanmartin X, González-Juanatey J, Trillo-Nouche R
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00561
Clinical research
Coronary artery perforation during chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: epidemiology, mechanisms, management, and outcomes
Azzalini L, Poletti E, Ayoub M, Ojeda S, Zivelonghi C, La Manna A, Bellini B, Lostalo A, Luque A, Venuti G, Montorfano M, Agostoni P, Pan M, Carlino M, Mashayekhi K
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00282
Image – Interventional flashlight
Long-term follow-up of an extreme kinking of a right coronary artery stenosis treated with a bioresorbable vascular scaffold
Stierlin F, Puricel S, Cook S
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00441

Interventions for hypertension and stroke

Image – Interventional flashlight
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Räber L, Ueki Y, Lang I
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01212
Image – Interventional flashlight
First-in-man percutaneous closure of left atrial appendage using the Ultraseal II device
Cruz-González I, González Ferreiro R, Barreiro Pérez M, Sánchez Fernández P
October 4, 2019 | 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01084
Coronary
Valvular disease
Heart failure
Peripheral
Hypertension
Stroke