
Bashir Alaour
@bashiralaour
Consultant Cardiologist. Past BCIS 🇬🇧 Structural Intervention Fellow at Bern University Hospital 🇨🇭. BHF Clinical Research Training Fellow alumni. 🚜 owner
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20-10-2010 17:17:45
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Cardiac damage staging in aortic stenosis is ready for prime time. Excellent Editorial by Philippe Pibarot. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Masaaki Nakase Daijiro Tomii Fabien Praz


Thomas Pilgrim (Thomas Pilgrim) shares his #QuickTake on the risk of cardiac arrhythmia among men climbing Mount Everest, as seen in the SUMMIT study. Check out the full video here: tctmd.com/videos/tctmds-…

The diagnosis of AS marks the beginning of a life-long journey during which symptoms, expectations and management options are more spectromatic than dichotomous, and more versatile than resolute "Challenges in the life time management of AS" Thomas Pilgrim cvm.swisshealthweb.ch/en/article/doi…

Honoured to have been awarded the #BCS2024 Young Investigator Award for my work on patients with ANOCA. Extremely grateful for the unparalleled mentorship from Divaka Perera and the support from the entire team at Cardiac Research


Presented today at European Society of Cardiology #ESC24 and simultaneously published in JAMA Cardiology, the results of the #PACMAN-AMI lesion-level analysis are now out: incremental plaque burden reduction at lesion-level and MLA site, with evolution of TCFAs and LRPs into more stable plaques



I learnt a lot from Benoy Shah MD when I published with him years ago! I have no doubt this will be a great course for researchers and all health care professionals interested in adding to the medical literature!

Accuracy of PW–Derived Indices in LMCA Disease JACC Journals 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kPI16uPJvuW… ➡️FFR superior to NHPRs at detecting significant LMCA disease ➡️Discordance rates: iFR 18.1% and Pd/Pa 17.0%, primarily due to false negatives British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences PCRonline 🫀 American College of Cardiology


Sharing our latest SwissTAVI 1 of the largest observational studies assessing the rate of hemodynamic valve deterioration HVD according to VARC-3 ➕️ 1 of the first investigating the clinical impact of HVD ➕️ 10-year f/u 💥 Thomas Pilgrim Daijiro Tomii JACC Journals BCIS


Seems like we have implanted the first ACURATE Prime TAVI prosthesis in the UK! University Hospital Southampton 💙 Richard Jabbour Rohit Sirohi, John Rawlins, Simon Corbett Alison Calver Omar Bajmmal Hampshire Hospitals


Nice one Taishi Okuno et al

Survival better with current medical+ device therapy than STICH-era MT (+/- CABG) if LVEF<35%! ➡️ are lessons from all RCTs with a OMT control arm time-limited? ➡️ is PCI better than CABG (or vice versa)? These two trials can’t answer this. Await STICH3 trials BCIS-4 Trial

opci.live/opci-lives/hem… I was honoured to present our recent Hemodynamic Valve Deterioration post TAVI: 10-year data from the BernTAVI registry at the OPCI Journal club Thomas Pilgrim Daijiro Tomii Jaffar Khan Cardiovascular Research Cluster (CVRC) curzen David Hildick-Smith Benoy Shah MD PCRonline 🫀


Congratulations Flavio Biccirè et al

"cMyC vs cTn After Brief Induced Ischemia in Humans" ❓️ case for multi-biomarker approach in myocardial injury ❓️need to revisit the definition of " angina" in the time of high/ultra-sensitive assays cjcopen.ca/article/S2589-… Rasmus Hasselbalch Michael Marber Tom Kaier Sam McGrath



📰tctmd.com/news/pressure-… 🔗ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11… ⁉️ Should diagnostic thresholds for FFR, iFR, CFR be specific to each vessel. TCTMD Caitlin E. Cox CircInterventions Sunil V. Rao William Fearon Mamas A. Mamas Gregg W. Stone MD John Mandrola, MD curzen Rasha Al-Lamee Dr Shrilla Banerjee MD FRCP 💙 Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai Javier Escaned
