Exciting new journal features

EuroIntervention constantly evolves to serve you, our readers, better. Future issues will include new sections developed to offer the finest news on clinical, scientific and technological research, plus educational resources to challenge and advance your current practice. Today we debut two educational sections: the entirely revamped How should I treat? and the new EuroTechniques.

How should I treat?

In this section we present a case to experts representing different treatment options who are blinded to the results. You read how they would treat the patient and why and only after offering their insights do they and we discover what the final results actually were.

Previously we brought you the expert opinions of Ad Bogers and Shakeel Qureshi on Rohit Khurana's coronary steal case with unstable angina secondary to coronary artery fistula (2008, vol. 4, pages 542- 548). There were also interventionalist David Antoniucci's and surgeon David Taggart’s views on Carlos Van Mieghem's case of myocardial infarction in a sickle cell patient, highlighting treatment dilemmas and imaging findings at follow-up (2008, vol. 3 pages 627-634).

How should I treat?

lets us delve into the thinking behind each individual protocol and treatment and returns with clearer graphics and additional material online.

EuroTechniques

EuroPCR's hands-on advice and take-home messages are the hert of why this Course is so valuable for participants. EuroIntervention wants to offer the same to its readership, so Christoph K. Naber (Germany) and Bhavesh Sachdev (UK) – together with EuroPCR board members and EuroIntervention editors Eric Eeckhout, and Jean Fajadet – have developed EuroTechniques. It comprises practical articles by European experts, covering basic and advanced interventional and diagnostic techniques, aimed at interventional cardiologists in training, and trained interventionalists with intermediate experience, EuroTechniques offers practical, step-by-step teaching from a European perspective, to provide a source and reference for cardiovascular intervention.

EuroTechniques will cover all major coronary procedures (radial access, guide catheters, multivessel disease, etc.), peripheral intervention (carotid intervention, illio-femoral intervention, thoracic aortic intervention, etc.), structural heart disease (TAVI, PFO closure, septal ablation, etc.) and invasive imaging (IVUS and FFR). Articles will be highly interactive, with full graphics, and include background, indications, methods, tips & tricks, pitfalls & complications of each technique, plus selected references and additional material online. EuroTechniques, coming soon in EuroIntervention!

EAPCI THANKS

During the changes of the last few years, EuroIntervention's collaboration with the EAPCI and its President William Wijns has been a vital influence. His editorials and columns have enlivened our Journal and we want to thank him at the end of his term and look forward to working with the incoming President, Carlo Di Mario. We are excited at the possibilities offered as the official journal of this dynamic organisation!