Akihisa Kataoka
Latest contributions
Mitral complications
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
M-TEER around the world
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Explore the latest insights and advancements in the field of Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (M-TEER) from around the world. Discover a new anatomical risk score for predicting procedural outcomes, two-year outcomes from the MiCLASP study, the impact of regurgitant volume to left atrial volume ratio on...
Rapid-fire - Mitral TEER for complex situations
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
This series of rapid-fire submitted cases focuses on mitral TEER for complex situations. Learn about creative solutions to these situations such as clip inversion grasping, independent leaflet grasping with a CGA system, and more!
Mitral valve interventions for complex anatomy
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Consult this session on to learn more about how to manage complex anatomy and complications during mitral valve interventions. Discover compelling cases such as a valve-in-ring TMVR in a fluoroscopically invisible ring, PASCAL for bailout of MitraClip single-leaflet device attachment, and more!
Challenges in TEER for secondary mitral regurgitation
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Explore this session on secondary mitral regurgitation to understand the ideal case predictors gleaned from trials like EVEREST, COAPT, or MITRA-FR, delve into patient selection conundrums, including optimal medical therapy, examine technical challenges posed by atrial functional mitral regurgitation, and gain insights into TEER techniques for...
Transcatheter repair for complex degenerative mitral regurgitation - LIVE case
18 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
An 83-year-old female with chronic kidney disease, RBBB, has severe mitral regurgitation due to P2 prolapse and preserved LV function (69 %).
The operators decide to implant 1 XTW clip, guided by TEE and left atrial pressure.
LIVE Case from Kokura Memorial Hospital Kitakyushu, Japan
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My worst nightmare - Mitral valve intervention
18 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
Through the three challenging cases presented in this session, each presenting an access, leaflet and clip nightmare, learn about optimal bailout and prevention methods to deal with these rare complications that can occur during transcatheter mitral valve intervention.
Imaging for mitral valve interventions
17 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
Watch this PCR Tokyo Valves 2023 session to review the anatomy of the mitral valve, learn how to assess it with a trans-oesophageal echocardiography, find out how to grade MR and avoid its pitfalls, and get tips and tricks for successful intraprocedural TEE.
Case-based challenging edge-to-edge mitral repair
26 Sep 2021 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2021
Watch this session on mitral valve repair to learn how to successfully perform this procedure, especially in patients with challenging anatomies, and how to face any possible complications.
Post-dilation from contralateral access site for nose cone entrapment during self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve implantation
07 Sep 2021
View this successful case with bail-out post-dilation for modifying nose cone entrapment due to stent frame infolding.
Remaining challenges in TAVI: how to achieve the better lifetime outcomes for AS patients
16 Feb 2020 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2020
Consult this session to gain insight into the remaining challenges in TAVI, such as providing AS patients with the best possible outcomes over their entire lifetime, improving pacemaker implant rates with self-expandable valves, and more!
Cases in mitral
15 Feb 2020 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2020
Consult this session to discover various challenging mitral cases, such as MitraClip therapy for dynamic mitral regurgitation with repetitive heart failure exacerbation, transseptal mitral valve-in-valve implantation to elucidate a degree of concomitant aortic valve stenosis, and more!
Imaging Day - Case-based echo imaging for the aortic valve
14 Feb 2020 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2020
Consult this session to learn more about low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis, and discover how to predict prothesis-patient mismatch and how to detect prosthetic valve thrombosis.
Excellent abstracts from Japan
17 Feb 2019 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2019
Consult this session in English and Japanese to learn more about various TAVI studies and cases, regarding topics such as comparison between self- and balloon- expandable valve, clinical outcomes of the 20mm SAPIEN 3, single proglide vascular preclose technique, and more!
MitraClip for the beginners
17 Feb 2019 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2019
Consult this session to learn more about the actual MitraClip procedure based on angiography and TEE, and discover why the minimum invasive treatment is currently required and which patients can benefit from MitraClip.
Case-based learning for the Heart Valve Team: imaging for aortic valve intervention
15 Feb 2019 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2019
Consult this session to learn more about the patients selection for TAVI, the pre-procedural planning including complicated cases, and the post-procedural CT imaging in follow-up.
