Perfect Your Practice

Series of roundtables around key topics concerning the treatment of Left Main and Bifurcations.

A panel of international experts and key opinion leaders are discussing and bringing concrete example about the role IVUS in LM PCI, the importance of the lesion preparation, and the different stent strategies when treating bifurcations.

Live Sessions

Live Session 1

IVUS in LM: from practice to data

Learning objectives

  • The importance of IVUS in the treatment strategy during a LM procedure
  • Understand the recent evidence on Intravascular Imaging
  • How to optimise, through a stepwise systematic approach, a Left Main procedure with the use of Intravascular Imaging

Faculty


Prof James Spratt
St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK

José de la Torre Hernández
University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain

Gabriele Luigi Gasparini
Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, IT

Stephane Carlier
Université de Mons, Mons, BE

Live Session 2

Systematic approach in the treatment of Left Main bifurcation stenoses

Learning objectives

  • To comprehend the key factors to consider with lesion complexity
  • To learn how to select the most appropriate stent strategy
  • To understand the importance of IVUS in the treatment of Left Main bifurcation lesions

Faculty


Prof James Spratt
St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK

Dr Kalaivani Mahadevan
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK

Dr Paolo Canova
Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, IT

Dr Gregor Leibundgut
University Hospital of Basel, Basel, CH