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Experts throughout Europe have contributed to this European Heart Journal supplement with articles discussing best practices for successfully managing mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in patients with cardiogenic shock.

Mario Iannaccone, MD, discusses how he and his team managed an urgent cardiogenic shock case that arrived on a Saturday morning.

William O’Neill, MD, defines high-risk PCI and explains how to decide when to use mechanical circulatory support in this short interview.

Alejandro F. Lemor, MD, disusses A-SMART-EF, a new risk score for predicting outcomes in patients supported with Impella® during PCI.

Prof. Evgenij Potapov, MD, discusses temporary MCS options for cardiogenic shock, highlighting the ECMELLA 2+ concept.

Alexander Bernhardt, MD, discusses the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative use of Impella® in cardiac surgery.

Scott Silvestry, MD, discusses his experience with Impella 5.5® and Impella RP Flex® at EACTS 2023.

Learn more about the data and differences between part I and part II from the York data analysis.

In the presentation titled “Predictive value of residual SYNTAX score for clinical outcomes after high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention: Evidence from pooled analysis of prospective studies,” Vasileios Panoulas, MD, and colleagues...

Vasileios Panoulas, MD, discusses a pooled analysis of factors predicting outcomes at 90 days in high-risk PCI patients.

In a third-party analysis conducted by the York Health Economics Consortium was evaluated to test the hypothesis that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with Impella® support...

Dirk Westermann, MD, discusses the timing of left ventricular unloading in VA ECMO patients at EuroPCR 2023.

Nikos Werner, MD, discusses best practices for high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (HRPCI) at EuroPCR 2023.

Javier Escaned, MD, Nikos Werner, MD, Dirk Westermann, MD, and Vasileios Panoulas, MD, answer questions following the EuroPCR session “How to optimize high-risk patient outcome?”

Vasileios Panoulas, MD, discusses data regarding completeness of revascularization in high-risk PCI with mechanical circulatory support (MCS) at EuroPCR 2023.