EuroPCR 2017: TAVR Continues To Beat Surgery; Bioabsorbable Stents Not Going Away

The EuroPCR conference in Paris is the most important annual interventional cardiology conference in Europe and this year's edition brought more data from clinical trials of both established catheter-based technologies and innovative new devices.

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The 2017 EuroPCR conference was held at the Palais des Congres in Paris May 16-19 • Source: shutterstock.com

Trial data on both established and novel transcatheter valve technologies were among the big device stories coming out of this year's EuroPCR conference in Paris, which also featured new data on bioresorbable coronary stents, and additional findings from the recent major studies of coronary evaluation with instantaneous wave-free ratio.

Early in the meeting, results from REPRISE III support Boston Scientific Corp.'s Lotus transcatheter aortic valve in a high-risk patients and puts the repositionable valve on track...

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