1/3 Welcome to O-C-T-ober, #cardioTwitter! This month we bring you #TheCalciumFiles 🗃️– your guide to coronary calcification management. 1 📁How to identify calcium 2 📁How to prep calcified lesions 3 📁How to perform OCT-guided PCI Important Safety Info: bit.ly/3mHYQvh

Applications for BCIS International fellows close on Friday 5th November 2021. The opportunities on offer are: Interventional: Adelaide and Auckland Structural: Bern Don't miss out on a fantastic opportunity, apply here: bcis.org.uk/education/bcis…

Further evidence to support the use of intracoronary imaging...Impact of Intravascular Ultrasound on Long-Term Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction | JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

In 2021 the paradigm should change. There is no such a thing as type A lesion when it comes to performing state of the art PCI. If it is not done perfect, then it’s better not to do it all. I can’t see how this goal can be accomplished without intravascular imaging

How intravascular imaging may change outcomes in stable CAD. Do you agree that the ISCHEMIA results would have been different with mandated intravascular imaging? Akiko Maehara #AHA21

This consensus document of the Euro-CTO Club describes the technical characteristics and use of commercially available dual lumen microcatheters. #EAPCI ow.ly/Iwx250He63x

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Great MINOCA tweetorial…

Interested in INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND? Read our #EIJBestOf article on the substudy of the randomised NOBLE trial. #intravascularultrasound #leftmainstem ow.ly/kK1a50KoIPe

Ok #Cardiotwitter, next month I'm going on a medical mission trip with CardioStart to Nigeria to help set up a PCI program. Would love a RT so we could get BostonSci Cardiology, Abbott Cardiovascular, Medtronic Cardiac, Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. Medical Sales, 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀, Terumo Interventional Systems and other manufacturers to donate supplies

How should you treat stent failure? Kevin Croce MD, PhD Evan Shlofmitz Ziad Ali jcspratt OPCI

ICYMI: We are accepting applications for BCIS International Fellowships in Adelaide, Auckland, Vancouver and Victoria! These posts offer well-established, high-quality, high-volume interventional training in prominent cardiac centres. More info here: bit.ly/3F9jdtu

Thank you, Dr. @AliceMezincescu for sharing the New Zealand single-centre experience at #TCT2023! 304 patients treated with #CoronaryIVL, 61.5% with ACS, experienced strong safety & efficacy outcomes. Despite patient characteristics suggesting a higher risk cohort, there was a

It’s a pulse from the past! Our team recently had the great pleasure of reuniting with Assoc. Prof Andrew Holden and Dr. Jithendra Somaratne at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand. Both were involved in the #ShockwaveIVL First In Man Trials in 2012 (peripheral) and 2015

"Intracoronary imaging guidance by IVUS or OCT is recommended for performing PCI on anatomically complex lesions, in particular left main stem, true bifurcations and long lesions. " EHJ2024 OCTOBER Trial Evald Høj Christiansen Gregg W. Stone MD Lene Nyhus Andreasen Ziad Ali Dr Peter O'Kane Omeed Neghabat

🚨Breaking News: New ESC Guidelines on CCS. Intracoronary Imaging now Class IA for LM, true bifurcation and long lesions! Either OCT or IVUS. PCRonline 🫀 European Society of Cardiology Niels R. Holm Tom Johnson Nicolas Amabile Flavio Biccirè Ziad Ali Prof. Hector M. Garcia-Garcia Salvatore Brugaletta Holger Nef

Vamos, Rafa Nadal!   As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.   Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I

The 12-month fellowship position in Auckland has unexpectedly become available, commencing October 2025. Applications close Friday 7th March at 5 PM. Find out more and apply here; bcis.org.uk/news/bcis-trai…

The 12-month fellowship position in Auckland has unexpectedly become available, commencing October 2025. Applications close Friday 7th March at 5 PM. Find out more and apply here; bcis.org.uk/news/bcis-trai…

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