At PCR, Interventional Cardiology Looks East Not West
Executive Summary
For many years, the Paris Course on Revascularization, Europe's largest showcase of devices and technology used in interventional cardiology, more often looked like a mini-TCT, the US-based meeting serving interventional medicine as well. But in the last couple of years, it's been hard to miss a somewhat diminished role for US physicians. While fewer US physicians have made the trip to Paris, interventionalists from China and India have been coming to PCR in greater numbers.This article first appeared in the June 2011 issue of IN VIVO.
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