Ahmed Vachiat

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist
Netcare Milpark Hospital - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

Latest contributions

Matching patient to TAVI prosthesis - Is there a better way?

04 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023

In this AfricaPCR 2023 session, analyse several complex TAVI cases and explore why and how THV design elements should help optimise TAVI clinical outcomes.

Matching patient to TAVI prosthesis - Is there a better way?

Calcification clinical cases

04 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023

Learn more about transcatheter lithotripsy for aortic subvalvar calcification or LIMA and left anterior descending perforation in this session dedicated to calcification which includes 5 different clinical cases.

Calcification clinical cases

Coronary clinical cases - session 3

04 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023

Among the 6 presentations offered in this AfricaPCR 2023 session, find out more about a multivessel PCI and tight aortic stenosis, the case of a 6-year-old boy with HTN and dilated cardiomyopathy, a hybrid SVG calcium modification, and rare complications in a TAVI case.

Coronary clinical cases - session 3

TAVI for bicuspid aortic valve - LIVE case

03 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023

Watch how this 80-year-old man with severe, symptomatic, heavily calcified bicuspid aortic stenosis, who initially presented with NSTEMI, was treated, and learn about a simplified step-by-step TAVI procedure.

Balloon valvuloplasty was performed, followed by LAD PCI with a rotablator and stent, prior to the TAVI procedure, which...

TAVI for bicuspid aortic valve

Developing STEMI networks in Africa

03 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023

After a presentation of the Stent-Save a Life! programme, which supports the implementation of clinical practice guidelines on myocardial revascularisation, learn about the current situation of STEMI management in Africa, and more specifically in Angola, and analyze how the STEMI network could be set up in...

Developing STEMI networks in Africa

Challenging femoral access and alternative access

03 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023

In this session, learn about femoral artery dissection after TAVI, femoral perforation, alternative access for TAVI, and follow discussions about the safest way to perform transfemoral access, among others!

Challenging femoral access and alternative access