Every year, the EAPCI Board invites presidents and representatives of the interventional working groups affiliated to EAPCI to discuss issues and strategies surrounding the goals of education and advanced healthcare practices in interventional cardiology. In 2013, the 2nd EAPCI Summit, organised by the EAPCI Board in collaboration with the NIFYI committee, was entirely dedicated to discussing t...

A vast unmet need exists for tricuspid valve (TV) repair for functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) among patients undergoing left heart valve surgery. The FTR is a dynamic entity that is governed by several pathophysiologic mechanisms like TV annular dilatation, annular shape, pulmonary hypertension, left or right ventricle dysfunction, right ventricle geometry, and leaflet tethering. Treatm...

s of original contributions from NFIC 2016 391 Advances in Interventional Cardiology 2016; 12, 4 (46) 1-P Benefits in bleeding rates and periprocedural mortality of radial approach in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Propensity score analysis of data from ORPKI Polish National Registry Tomasz Tokarek1, Tomasz Wysocki2, Zbigniew Siudak1, Agata Wiktorowicz3, Jacek Legutko3, Krzysztof Ż...

Circ Cardiovasc Interv is available at http://circinterventions.ahajournals.org DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.113.000283 Received February 20, 2013; accepted April 8, 2013. From the Department of Interventional Cardiology and the Division of Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT. The online-only Data Supplement is available at http://circinterventions.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/10.1161...

RECENT YEARS have seen the development of many new techniques and therapies that are useful or potentially useful in the management of patients with cardiovascular diseases. A number of these procedures performed by cardiologists have given rise to the term "interventional cardiology," referring to the more active, interventional role of the physician performing the procedure as compared with t...

The manpower necessary to handle interventional procedures in the United States remains a subject of great uncertainty. The American College of Cardiology predicted a glut of cardiologists in a 1994 position statement [1], and Federal policy and budget decisions reduced financial support for cardiology training. As a result cardiology training programs were downsized [2]. Between 1990 and 1995 ...

Santiago Rivera, MD,* Maria de la Paz Ricapito, MD, Josefina Parodi, MD, Pablo Spaletra, Gaston Albina, MD, Alberto Giniger, MD, Fernando Scazzuso, MD From the Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires (ICBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Division of Cardiac Imaging, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires (I...

The working group Coronary Circulation of the European Society of Cardiology conducts, with the support of the national societies of cardiology, an annual survey on cardiac interventions in Europe. This report is the fourth consecutive summary on cardiac interventions in Europe and gives an overview of interventional cardiology activities during 1995 in 30 member countries of the European Socie...

Pierre Aubry1, Xavier Halna du Fretay2, Patrick A. Calvert1,3, Patrick Dupouy4, Fabien Hyafil5, Jean-Pierre Laissy6 and Jean-Michel Juliard1 1Department of Cardiology, Bichat Hospital, Paris 2Department of Cardiology, Foch Hospital, Suresnes 3Department of Cardiology, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, 4Department of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging, Hôpital ...