Interventional Cardiovascular Surgery

Structural valve deterioration remains the Achilles heel of both SAVR and TAVI. Since indications for TAVI have expanded to low-risk patients in 2019, this clinical scenario poses a significant conundrum for physicians and surgeons, as the number of patients undergoing aortic valve interventions continues to grow...

Coronary obstruction is a known procedural complication of aortic valve replacement. However, delayed presentation few months after surgical AVR is a relatively unusual phenomenon.  We describe a 75 year old woman with surgical AVR who presented with acute coronary syndrome and severe RV failure few months...

Ali Nazmi Calik and Pascal Meier review this trial comparing CEA with CAS for patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, which was presented by Alison Halliday (Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) during a Hot Line session of the ESC Congress 2021.

Find out more about the case of a 72-year-old male, very active, previous smoker with hypertension, who underwent a stress echo for dyspnea on exertion...

Reviewers:

Michele Pighi et Flavio Luciano Ribichini

Paola Redaelli interviews first Fabien Praz then Francesco Maisano to get their feedback on transcatheter edge-to-edge repair for treatment of tricuspid regurgitation, as covered by the TRILUMINATE Trial. Compare the surgeon's perspective with the interventional cardiologist's perspective!

1. In most cases torrential TR remains at least severe after Triclip:...

Read more about the Nordic Aortic Valve Intervention (NOTION) trial to compare clinical outcomes and durability of bioprosthetic aortic valves 8 years after TAVI and SAVR.

In this session, discover how an effective calcium debridement procedure in stenotic aortic valves may restore the valve function, and why biometric indicators and engineering characteristics are so important for effective and safe delivery of endovascular care.

In this session, discover a case when the surgeon ́s ambitions are higher than his courage.

Radial artery spasm is inevitable when dealing with small caliber one, especially in calcified radial artery. We describe a case in which radial sheath broke due to severe radial spasm and successfully removed by vascular surgical extraction.

View this virtual LIVE case surgery recorded in Leipzig Heart Center, Germany – followed by LIVE call-ins from different city pods around the globe.

This session was originally presented during PCR Valves e-Course 2020.