Second Annual EuroIntervention Awards

Yesterday we held the second annual EuroIntervention Awards, celebrating what were selected as the best papers published in EuroIntervention in the May issue. There were five papers chosen for the awards and these papers are a true indication of the broad spectrum of topics covered by EuroIntervention.

Papers presented included novel ideas in interventional cardiology including scanning electron microscopy with drug-eluting stents and a paper containing an epidemiological analysis of drug-eluting stents in 14,000 patients with 100% follow-up at 3 years. Another paper presented discussed optical coherence tomography, a powerful and innovative imaging technique that although in infancy, has great potential for the future. The pathology of percutaneous valves was explored in another paper giving us an insight into the technique and was a publication worthy of any cardiology journal. The final paper on preclinical results on work conducted in pigs.

Andrew Ong, EuroIntervention Deputy Pacific Ring Associate Editor, commented that through continued submissions from authors on such a wide range of topics we can really make EuroIntervention the premium journal covering all aspects of interventional cardiology. He encouraged authors to keep submitting to the journal and reminded everyone that access to papers in EuroIntervention is free online for prospective authors, something that other cardiology journals are not offering to the community.