Volume 18 Number 12

State-of-the-Art on the treatment of mitral regurgitation using mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, offering an in-depth overview of the procedure, devices and techniques. In Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure: Articles comparing the ACURATE neo2 device with Evolut PRO/PRO + and SAPIEN 3 Ultra. Also in interventions for valvular disease, a call for further studies of long-term durability and life expectancy after TAVI vs SAVR. In coronary interventions, a mini focus on vulnerable plaque including determination of plaque composition and vulnerability – radial wall strain and implications of quantitative and qualitative high-risk plaque; also, the PROGRESS-CTO perforation score, a new risk score for predicting coronary artery perforation based on CTO PCI ; and more…

In this issue of EuroIntervention

A state-of-the-art on mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair; comparing the ACURATE neo2 to the Evolut PRO/PRO+ and the SAPIEN 3 Ultra; durability and life expectancy after TAVI; mini focus on vulnerable plaque with articles on radial wall strain and a novel angiography-derived method for determining plaque composition and vulnerability; the PROGRESS-CTO perforation score; and more

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State-of-the-Art

Mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair

Hausleiter J, Stocker TJ, Adamo M, Karam N, Swaans MJ, Praz F

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00725

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Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure

Comparison of transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the ACURATE neo2 versus Evolut PRO/PRO+ devices

Baggio S, Pagnesi M, Kim W, Scotti A, Barbanti M, Costa G, Adamo M, Kornowski R, Vaknin-Assa H, Estevez-Loureiro R, Cedeño R, De Marco F, Casenghi M, Toggweiler S, Veulemans V, Mylotte D, Lunardi M, Regazzoli D, Reimers B, Sondergaard L, Vanhaverbeke M, Nuyens P, Maffeo D, Buono A, Saccocci M, Giannini F, Di Ienno L, Ferlini M, Lanzillo G, Ielasi A, Schofer J, Brinkmann C, Van der Heyden J, Buysschaert I, Eitan A, Wolf A, Adamaszek M, Colombo A, Latib A, Mangieri A

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00498

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ACURATE neo2 versus SAPIEN 3 Ultra for transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Pellegrini C, Rheude T, Renker M, Wolf A, Wambach J, Alvarez-Covarrubias H, Dörr O, Singh P, Charitos E, Xhepa E, Joner M, Kim W

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00164

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Editorial comment

Rocky II, Rambo II, and the ACURATE neo2

Serruys PW, Elkoumy A, Garg S

10.4244/EIJ-E-22-00050

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Life expectancy of patients with a transcatheter aortic valve and the implications for long-term valve durability data collection

Vanhaverbeke M, Sondergaard L, De Backer O

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00493

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Double chimney stenting without contrast during transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve implantation

Armario X, Lunardi M, Rosseel L, Ono M, Onuma Y, Mylotte D

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00385

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Coronary interventions - Mini focus on vulnerable plaques

Radial wall strain: a novel angiographic measure of plaque composition and vulnerability

Hong H, Li C, Gutiérrez-Chico J, Wang Z, Huang J, Chu M, Kubo T, Chen L, Wijns W, Tu S

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00537

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Outcomes of non-ischaemic coronary lesions with high-risk plaque characteristics on coronary CT angiography

Yang S, Hoshino M, Yonetsu T, Zhang J, Hwang D, Shin E, Doh J, Nam C, Wang J, Chen S, Tanaka N, Matsuo H, Kubo T, Chang H, Kakuta T, Koo B

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00562

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Editorial comment

What makes a plaque rupture? A simple answer seems too much to ask for

Achenbach S

10.4244/EIJ-E-22-00051

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Coronary interventions

Development and validation of a scoring system for predicting clinical coronary artery perforation during percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusions: the PROGRESS-CTO perforation score

Kostantinis S, Simsek B, Karacsonyi J, Alaswad K, Jaffer F, Khatri J, Choi J, Jaber W, Rinfret S, Nicholson W, Patel M, Mahmud E, Toma C, Davies R, Kerrigan J, Haddad E, Gorgulu S, Abi-Rafeh N, ElGuindy A, Goktekin O, Allana S, Burke MN, Mastrodemos O, Rangan B, Brilakis E

10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00593

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Editorial comment

Scores and algorithms in CTO PCI: “PROGRESS” or an exercise in futility?

Sianos G, Al Nooryani A

10.4244/EIJ-E-22-00049

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