Roundtable Discussion: Coronary Physiology

Roundtable Discussion

 

During EuroPCR 2015 (FR), Radcliffe Cardiology, in association with the Interventional Cardiology Review journal, filmed a roundtable discussion focusing on the topical area of  'Coronary Physiology'.

The discussion was moderated by Editor-in-Chief, Simon Kennon (London, UK). He was joined by expert group of physicians including Prof. Stephan Achenbach(Erlangen, DE), Drs Sergio Bravo Baptista (Amadora, PT), Matthias Gotberg (Lund, SE), Divaka Perera (London, UK), Andrew Sharp (Exeter, UK) and Prof. Eric Van Belle (Lille, FR).

The meeting comprised of three panel discussions on a range of topical issues related to all aspects of coronary physiology from the clinical trial and registry data, current performance and utilisation, through to emerging technological advances and future use of physiological assessment.

This educational activity is intended for an international audience, specifically interventional cardiologists and cardiologists. However, other healthcare professionals involved in the care of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients will also find this topical.

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Simon Kennon, Interventional Cardiologist and Head of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Programme, London Chest Hospital, London, UK
Stephan Achenbach, Professor of Cardiology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Sergio Bravo Baptista, Cardiology Department, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal
Matthias Gotberg, Director of Cardiac Cath Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Divaka Perera, Consultant Cardiologist, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Andrew Sharp, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
Eric Van Belle, Professor – Head of Interventional Cardiology, University of Lille Hospital, France

Simon Kennon has no disclosures

Stephan Achenbach receives research contracts (institutional) from Siemens Healthcare & Abbott Vascular.

Sergio Baptista has received an investigation grant and also consultant fees from St. Jude Medical.

Mathias Gotberg proctors and receives minor consulting fees for Boston Scientific, minor consulting for Medtronic and minor consulting for Volcano. He is also PI for the iFR-Swedeheart trial which is supported by Volcano through an unrestricted research grant.

Divaka Perera has received research funding and speaker's fees from Maquet

Andrew Sharp has received speakers honoraria from Volcano

Eric Van Belle disclosed being a consultant from St Jude Medical and receiving speaker's fees from Volcano

The assigned learning objectives for this roundtable are listed for your information:
  • To review the real-world utilisation and performance of coronary physiology assessment
  • To consider recent and emerging data on coronary physiology assessment technology in particular in non-culprit disease, and in the setting of a diagnostic catheterization
  • To discuss on-going coronary physiology assessment research
  • To identify and refine the indications for utilisation of coronary physiology assessment in particular in non-culprit ACS, and diagnostic catheterizations
  • To establish the nature of future coronary physiology research and technology developments

This educational activity is intended for an international audience, specifically interventional cardiologists and cardiologists. However, other healthcare professionals involved in the care of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients will also find this topical.

This roundtable discussion was sponsored by Volcano Corporation