A long-waited PREVENT trial is now presented at LBCT-V #ACC2024
🇰🇷From the inception of trial to completion of trial took a decade.
✅1,606 pts with intracoronary imaging-detected “Vulnerable Plaque” randomized 1:1 to (1) Preventive PCI vs (2) OMT alone.
✅Prevent PCI…

Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Møller & colleagues for today's #ACC24 Late-Breaker & simultaneous NEJM publication of DanGer Shock! What a win for the interventional community & our patients with AMI Cardiogenic Shock! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Ready to rock ⁦HeartFlow⁩ hands on session - manipulate 3D CT with coronary flow ⁦Dr. Purvi Parwani⁩ ⁦Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD⁩ ⁦Dr Andrew D. Choi⁩ ⁦Ron Blankstein⁩ ⁦Ziad Ali⁩ ⁦Jaffar Khan⁩ ⁦Evan Shlofmitz⁩

Could not do LAMPOON, BASILICA, TELLTALE, SESAME, complex TEER, complex PVL closure and everything else we do to help patients St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center® without this outstanding imaging team.

Watch Now! “How to Measure Absolute Flow: Step by Step' featuring operators Ziad Ali Allen Jeremias
Carlos Collet MD PhD. Moderated by David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Dr. Jeffrey W. Moses and Doosup Shin. opci.live/opci-live. #CardioTwitter

Consequences to incomplete revasc in LMPCI? From EXCEL, leaving a residual jeop score >4 is BAD, and most importantly, leaving >70%DS in the Cx has a 3-fold hazard of Death/MI. So for all the provisionalists, respect the Cx! Gregg W. Stone MD Mina Madan rb.gy/n80x33

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🆕💥Vascular calcification is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, posing challenges for #PCI . Authors highlight coronary #CT 's vital role in assessing & quantifying vascular calcification for optimal PCI planning.

➡️doi.org/10.1016/j.jsca…

Carlos Collet MD PhD Frederic Bouisset

Attending #ACC24 ? Join OPCI for a hands-on training session 'Mastering Saline OCT: Dive into Precision Performance' featuring Ziad Ali Evan Shlofmitz and other leading experts. Learn technical aspects of HF-OCT, tips and tricks, best practices, and more. opci.events/V8LeqK

CoreAalst is filled with learning opportunities in 2024!

🎓 The Physiology Course, 15-17 April - Hurry, almost full! Secure one of the last few spots Orsi Academy Choose on-site or virtual: coreaalst.com/physiology 🏃‍♂️

🌞The Physiology Course – Dubai edition, 3-4 May. 🇦🇪

🔍The…

Watch Now! OPCI Journal Club featuring Neel Butala on the 'Use of Calcium Modification during PCI after Introduction of Coronary IVL' with esteemed panelists David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Ziad Ali Allen Jeremias Dr. Jeffrey W. Moses Evan Shlofmitz and Dr. Lawrence Garcia. opci.live/opci-journal-c…

Very proud of our New York Tech scholars! MSY3 first author presenting original research. Congrats @mandeeps94. Omar Khalique Roosha Parikh Evan Shlofmitz OPCI Catholic Health St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center®

Glad more devices are getting approved - exclusion rates for trials are still very high - #TMVR a particular issue! Congrats to Dr. Lu Chen for this nice analysis Dr. Purvi Parwani David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Jaffar Khan Ziad Ali Dr. Purvi Parwani Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38432332/

🔥What to expect after PCI in focal vs diffuse disease?

👉 High PPG (Focal) 🟰 Tissue protrusion
👉 Low PPG (Diffuse) 🟰 Underexpansion & incomplete stent apposition

👁️ Essential role of imaging (OCT) explaining outcomes in focal vs diffuse disease PCRonline 🫀 JAHA

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New article—Intravascular imaging-guided coronary drug-eluting stent implantation: an updated network meta-analysis hubs.li/Q02lY9-Q0

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#Totalityofdata IVI versus angio-guided PCI meta just published The Lancet. We knew IVI reduces every 2,3 & 4 letter word, but now the 5 letter word - DEATH. See for yourself

authors.elsevier.com/c/1ie90V-4XL6EY

#imagefirst #MLDMAX #OCT = #IVUS
Gregg W. Stone MD OPCI Evald Høj Christiansen Niels R. Holm

Curious how the unique MoA of #ShockwaveIVL impacts nodular & eccentric calcium? Hear from Dr. Ziad Ali as he shares the mechanistic benefit & JACC Journals data around the treatment of these morphologies: shockwavemedical.com/clinicians/usa…

US Rx only. ISI bit.ly/3iEq7fC

Proud to be part of this amazing division of cardiovascular imaging St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center® Catholic Health where more than half of the division is represented by women
Women as One OPCI Omar Khalique Ziad Ali Dr Roxana Mehran Dr. Martha Gulati ♥️🫀❤️‍🩹🇨🇦 Dr. Purvi Parwani Heart_SCCT Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance American Society of Echocardiography ASNC Society

Great work! Thanks for trusting us to teach you. Who else wants to learn? One day, and you can go home and do it yourself OPCI Philips Catholic Health David J. Cohen, MD, MSc ACIST Medical Systems BostonSci Cardiology