Summary
Professor Javier Escaned and his team in Madrid present a live case, transmitted directly to London
- Case presented with treatment of the left anterior descending artery, with tandem stenoses and a bifurcation lesion
- Overview of baseline coronary physiology with thermodilution
- Demonstration of the Eagle-Eye IVUS catheter (solid state, Volcano system): short-tip, long monorail segment
- IVUS-assessment pre-PCI with co-registration pullback to help plan PCI strategy
- Demonstration of plaque characteristics, and demonstrations of measurements of the vessel in different segments (distal reference, diseased segments, proximal reference)
- IVUS-guided stent optimisation
