Roundtable Discussion: The role of IVUS in Contemporary PCI

Published: 18 December 2020

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Overview

During the "Advances in Intravascular imaging" course in London, Simple Education, in association with Radcliffe Cardiology, filmed a roundtable discussion focusing on the topical area of 'The role of IVUS in Contemporary PCI'.

This discussion was moderated by Dr Andrew Sharp (Exeter, UK) who was joined by an expert group of physicians including Prof Takashi Akasaka (Wakayama, Japan), Prof Carlo di Mario (Florence, Italy), Prof Jacek Legutko (Krakow, Poland) and Dr Peter O'Kane (Bournemouth, UK).

The meeting comprised of three panel discussions on a range of topical issues related to all aspects of IVUS Imaging.

Panellists

  • Dr Andrew Sharp (Exeter, UK)
  • Prof Takashi Akasaka (Wakayama, JP)
  • Prof Carlo Di Mario (Florence, IT)
  • Prof Jacek Legutko (Krakow, PL)
  • Dr Peter O’Kane (Bournemouth, UK)

Target Audience

  • 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 to

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Part 1

SESSION 1

SESSION 1:CONTEMPORARY IVUS IMAGING

Part 2

SESSION 2

SESSION 2:INDICATIONS FOR IVUS (DATA REVIEW & APPROPRIATE USE CRITERIA)

Part 3

SESSION 3

SESSION 3:THE ROLE OF IVUS IN PREVENTION AND ASSESSMENT OF PCI COMPLICATIONS

Faculty Biographies

Andrew SP Sharp

Andrew SP Sharp

Consultant Cardiologist

Prof Andrew Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998. He conducted his senior clinical training at Imperial College Hospitals and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, before being appointed in 2011 as a Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and University of Exeter. Professor Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree for his work on the hypertensive heart whilst at Imperial College and now leads a growing research programme at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in the fields of hypertension, renal denervation, ischaemic heart disease, intra-coronary imaging, coronary physiology, pulmonary embolus and aortic valve disease.

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Takashi Akasaka

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Carlos Di Mario

Carlos Di Mario

Full Professor of Cardiology

Prof Carlo Di Mario was born in Modena, Italy and graduated in medicine, specialising in cardiology, from the University of Padua. He trained in interventional cardiology and worked at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he completed his PhD. He became professor of cardiology at the University of Florence and director of structural interventional cardiology at the Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.

He has previously served as research and clinical director for interventional cardiology at the University Vita-Salute of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. Between January 2003 and November 2016, he was…

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Jacek Legutko

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