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At PCR, Interventional Cardiology Looks East, Not West

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.

For many years, the Paris Course on Revascularization (PCR), 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. Many US companies used Europe as an early testing ground for technology, making PCR an important forum for talking about new technology. At the same time, the enormous role played by US interventionalists in developing, promoting, and adopting technology made their presence at PCR striking.

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