Left Main Bifurcation Live Case Series

Published: 19 February 2021

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Overview

In this live case series Prof James Spratt and Dr Thierry Lefèvre will guide us through a progressive and comprehensive educational journey around the globe. We will join various live case centres, over 11 months to learn from over 30 expert perspectives on how LMPCI is performed in a contemporary setting.

The aim of the series being, to break down the complexity of the whole procedure into a systematic, algorithmic, step by step approach. Simplified for us by top operators and faculty, through live cases and relevant flash lectures to support the learning.

With LM PCI being the most divisive procedure performed in interventional cardiology currently, the need to stay informed and aware of innovation in products and techniques has become all the more important.


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Part 1

The Process Behind the Procedure: An Introduction to Left Main PCI

Part 2

The Role of IVUS

In this session Prof James Spratt summarizes Live Case 1 from Belfast and is joined by Dr Joost Daemen and Dr Jose de la Torre to discuss IVUS driven strategy and optimization. Dr Colm Hanratty and Prof Robert Byrne take us through an IVUS led left main case from the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin.

Part 3

Approach to LMS & Choosing Stent Strategy

This Left Main Live case focuses on the decision making, based on the guidance of the European Bifurcation Club’s latest consensus, around choosing a stent strategy for left main bifurcations. Broadcast live from Clinique St Augustin, Bordeaux, watch how Dr Oliver Darremont and Dr Nicolas Boudou treat a patient with a very tight distal LMS trifurcation and how they used imaging to help their decision making to choose an appropriate stent strategy.

Part 4

Lesion Preparation

The fourth live case focussed on lesion preparation with a broadcast from Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan with Dr Bernhard Reimers and Dr Gabriele Luigi Gasparini operating with IVUS commentary by Dr Damiano Regazzoli Lancini. A very complex case was chosen with a subtotal occlusion of a very calcified and tortuous LAD and left main disease with many challenges trying to get into the distal LAD. The left main was assessed with IVUS. Eventually the subintimal track was dilated and the patient will be brought back in a few months for PCI.

Part 5

Provisional LM Stenting (Single Stent)

In Live Case 5 the operators used both physiology and IVUS to guide their decision making. Comet pressure wire in the circumflex showed negative DFR and FFR readings, and IVUS showed no disease at the circumflex ostium so they decided to go with a stepwise provisional strategy. They systematically used IVUS to plan the stent strategy (pullbacks in both LAD and LCX) and very thoroughly demonstrated how to assess “the 3 L’s – lesion, length, and landing zones”. A second stent was deployed and final angiographic result was excellent. A systematic, planned, clear, concise and expertly delivered case.

Part 6

Culotte Technique

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Part 7

DK Crush

In this session Dr Thierry Lefèvre summarizes a Live Case from Szpital Kliniczny im. Heliodor Święcicki UM, Poznan, Poland and is joined by Dr Nieves Gonzalo and Prof Manuel Pan to discuss The evidence base for DK Crush. Prof Maciej Lesiak and Dr Sylwia Iwanczyk take us through an DK Crush procedure.

Part 8

T and TAP Techniques

In this session Prof James Spratt moderates an interesting discussion Live Case 8 from Netcare Sunninghill Hospital, South Africa and is joined by Dr Mirvat Alasnag and Dr Jacob Odenstedt to discuss T and TAP Techniques. Prof Farrel Hellig take us through a T and TAP Techniques procedure.

Part 10

The Role of Imaging in the Left Main

Prof James Spratt (St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK) moderators a live broadcast on an important topic on Left Main PCI and 'The Role of Intravascular Imaging in the Left Main'. 

The broadcast starts with a live case from one of the major centres in Kuwait (Mubarak Alkabeer Hospital – Cardiac Catheterization & Research Unit, Jabriya, KW) where case operators Dr Abdullah Esmaiel, Dr Fahad Alhajri and Dr Ali Alsulaimi present a case with a 49-year-old male patient who has a history of CAD, HTN and HLD, 

This expert panel examine their approaches and that they would use imaging, then the live case centre goes on further to discuss what their approach would be using IVUS to map out the case. 

Following the live case, Dr Kalaivani Mahadevan (Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust) explains 'Overcoming the Barriers to Intracoronary Imaging in Left Main PCI' 

Part 11

Complication Management in Left Main PCI

Part 12

Faculty Biographies

James Spratt

James Spratt

Professor of Interventional Cardiology

Prof James Spratt is a Professor of Interventional cardiology. A high-volume Interventional Cardiologist with an international reputation in complex PCI, with a sub-speciality interest in intravascular imaging and CTO. Widely published within this area and has performed live case demonstrations globally. He is interested in medical education and is the Founder of Optima Education. Prof James Spratt is an editorial board member of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3).

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Thierry Lefèvre

Thierry Lefèvre

Head of the Interventional Cardiology

Dr Thierry Lefèvre is Head of the Interventional Cardiology Department and Head of Research at the Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud at Institut Hospitalier Jacques Cartier in Massy, France. He was previously a part-time hospital practitioner in the Cardiology Department at the Hôpital de Pontoise, France, where he was in charge of the intensive care unit (ICU), echocardiography and interventional cardiology. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and a Fellow of the Society for Angiography and Interventions. Dr Lefèvre earned his degree in medicine from the University of Paris V in 1985.

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Simon J Walsh

Simon J Walsh

Head of Cardiology

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Joost Daemen

Joost Daemen

Interventional Cardiologist

Dr Joost Daemen is a senior interventional cardiologist at the Thorax Center, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL. Dr Daemen obtained his degree in medicine at the Erasmus University Medical Center. He is actively involved in several drug-eluting stent trials and is Principal Investigator of four trials focusing on the safety and efficacy of renal sympathetic denervation in hypertension, heart failure, vasospastic angina and heart failure. Dr Daemen is a member of the editorial board of EuroIntervention and the Netherlands Heart Journal, member of Young ICIN, and has completed courses in biomedical statistics and device training.

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José M de la Torre Hernández

José M de la Torre Hernández

Head of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology

Prof Jose M de la Torre is an interventional cardiologist and Head of the Hemodynamics and Interventional Department of the Marques de Valdecilla University of Santander, ES.

Prof Jose M de la Torre is member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and is fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Former associate director of the Trans Catheter Therapeutics Meeting in US. Faculty of ESC, PCR, ACC and TCT meetings. Coordinator of the ESTROFA, XIMA and LITRO study groups. 

 

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Robert A Byrne

Robert A Byrne

Director of Cardiology

Prof Robert Byrne is Director of Cardiology at the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, and Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the Royal College of Surgeons.

He is also head of the Cardiovascular Research Institut(CVRI Dublin) which is a collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Its research focus is on Outcomes Research, Clinical Trials, Core Laboratory and Systematic Reviews.

Prof Robert Byrne's internship and general medical training was in the Mater Hospital, Dublin and Mayo Clinic, Arizona. His Cardiology fellowship was in Ireland and at the German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany.

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Colm Hanratty

Colm Hanratty

Interventional Cardiologist

Dr Colm Hanratty is an Interventional Cardiologist at Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, IE. Prior to joining Mater Private Hospital, he was clinical lead within the Belfast Trust for 8 years.

He has sub-specialty interest in the management of complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and is internationally recognised as one of the leading interventionists in terms of complex and chronic total occlusion PCI. 

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Alaide Chieffo

Alaide Chieffo

Clinical Research Director / Interventional Cardiologist

Dr Alaide Chieffo is a Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Clinical Research at San Raffaele Research Hospital, Milan, IT. She is also an adjunct Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles on various topics in interventional cardiology. Additionally, she serves as a co-investigator and Principal Investigator in major international clinical trials and studies.

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Barbara  Stähli

Barbara Stähli

Interventional Cardiologist

Prof Barbara Stähli is the Deputy Head of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the Clinic for Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich.

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Olivier Darremont

Olivier Darremont

Interventional Cardiologist

Olivier Darremont has been an Interventional cardiologist at the Clinique Saint-Augustin in Bordeaux since 2000

He is also a Board Member and co-Founder of The European Bifurcation Club.

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Nicolas Boudou

Nicolas Boudou

Interventional Cardiologist

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Margaret B McEntegart

Margaret B McEntegart

Director of Complex PCI and CTO Programmes

Dr Margaret McEntegart serves as the Director of Complex PCI and CTO programmes at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, US. She also holds the role of Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Columbia University Irving Medical Center / New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Before joining Columbia, Dr McEntegart served as a consultant interventional cardiologist at Golden Jubilee National Hospital (UK), where she played a pivotal role in establishing and leading the CTO and Complex PCI Programme.

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