Fadi Sawaya
Latest contributions
Most impactful trials in structural heart disease 2024/2025
30 Sep 2025 – From PCR Gulf Valves 2025
Delve into the most impactful structural heart disease trials shaping 2024 and 2025. This session addresses current dilemmas in TAVI, including early intervention and management of small annuli, evaluates evidence for transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve repair, and identifies evidence gaps relevant to the region, providing...
Myval transcatheter heart valve series - Align for the future with novel design, data and daily clinical experience
29 Sep 2025 – From PCR Gulf Valves 2025
Join this comprehensive session to explore the Myval transcatheter heart valve series, featuring the latest clinical updates from two large randomized controlled trials—Landmark and Compare TAVI. Learn from real-world experiences, including recorded cases, and understand how these innovations translate to complex patient demographics in daily TAVI...
Tricuspid transcatheter therapies: the game changer
29 Sep 2025 – From PCR Gulf Valves 2025
Explore the evolving landscape of tricuspid transcatheter therapies in this comprehensive session reviewing tricuspid regurgitation etiology, anatomy, and current treatment options. Learn about various transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention devices, their strengths and limitations, and the critical diagnostic and intraprocedural imaging requirements to optimize patient selection and...
Prediction and prevention of coronary artery obstruction during TAVI
29 Sep 2025 – From PCR Gulf Valves 2025
This session delivers expert insights into predicting and preventing coronary artery obstruction during TAVI procedures. Attendees will learn comprehensive assessment strategies for both native and bioprosthetic valves and explore advanced techniques to minimize occlusion risk in high-risk patients, including discussion of the UNICORN approach.
TAVI in bicuspid aortic stenosis - LIVE Case
29 Sep 2025 – From PCR Gulf Valves 2025
Delve into the management of bicuspid aortic stenosis with this LIVE educational case from Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh. Understand treatment options, procedural planning, and device selection while witnessing the safety and feasibility of TAVI in bicuspid anatomy through patient presentation, imaging analysis, and live...
TMVIV - TMVIR and its challenges
23 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Explore the challenges and innovations in transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve and valve-in-ring procedures. This session presents alternative access routes, management of paraannular compromise, and complex cases involving ECMO support and unexpected outcomes, offering valuable insights into advanced mitral interventions.
Shaping the future of cardiology - A journey of meaningful innovation in structural heart and coronary
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This EuroPCR 2025 session highlights the latest device innovations reshaping interventional cardiology. Learn how the Myval OCTAPRO THV combines predictable deployment with minimal foreshortening for improved outcomes in structural heart procedures. In the coronary space, the session explores the renewed appeal of the “leave nothing behind”...
Challenging vascular access and closure management
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Address challenging vascular access and closure management in complex TAVI cases. This session covers the selection of femoral access, use of PTA and intravascular lithotripsy, and strategies to manage closure failure with illustrative real-world cases.
Prevention of coronary obstruction during TAV-in-TAV
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Examine advanced techniques to prevent coronary obstruction during transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve (TAV-in-TAV) procedures. This session presents complex case strategies including the debated chimney technique and the UNICORN procedure designed for high coronary obstruction risk during redo TAVI interventions.
Non-transfemoral TAVI - The toolkit
25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
When should you consider alternative access for TAVI instead of the transfemoral route? This video dives right into the different non-transfemoral approaches, from transsubclavian to transcaval, and explains when each technique is most appropriate.
Learn how vascular modification can expand access options for more patients and discover...
TAVI in bicuspid valves - Pushing the boundaries
24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Curious about the latest breakthroughs in TAVI for bicuspid aortic valve anatomy? This video dives into cutting-edge evidence from the NAVIGATE Bicuspid trial, BELIEVERS trial and the Notion 2 sub-analysis.
You'll also see a live demonstration of advanced TAVI sizing techniques and discover how Heart Teams are...
Optimisation of your valve implantation to ensure lifelong outcomes using a novel self-expanding valve
24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Gain insights into the importance of valve optimization post-implantation to secure acute and long-term outcomes. In this session, you will discover the new features and benefits of the ACURATE Prime platform illustrated by a recorded case, and compare how different TAVI platforms perform when treating larger...
Treating the right valves: not always a straightforward task
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session focuses on the challenges and complexities involved in the percutaneous treatment of right-sided heart valves, including the tricuspid and pulmonary valves. Attendees will learn from case presentations and discussions on various scenarios, such as recurrent right heart obstructive shock, paravalvular leak closure, and unusual...
Valve-in-valve
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Contemporary TAVI: the VISION of lifetime management
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
In this session, discover how pre-procedural assessment is used to optimize procedural outcomes, ensuring the best possible results for patients undergoing TAVI, learn the intricacies of selecting the most suitable valve for each individual patient, considering their unique anatomical and clinical factors, and engage in discussions...
When the pulmonary valve is the problem
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session will feature a series of selected clinical case submissions from EuroPCR 2024, focusing on the management of pulmonary valve-related issues. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore various scenarios, including pulmonary balloon valvotomy in dextrocardia, transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation in dilated right ventricular outflow...
TAVI for bicuspid aortic stenosis patients - Recorded cases
05 Dec 2023 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2023
Discover two clinical cases of optimising TAVI procedure in bicuspid aortic valve patients, taking into account the current sizing options in such anatomy.
- An 84-year-old woman with a history of LAD PCI in 2020, presented a symptomatic severe aortic stenosis and grade 3 regurgitation with a preserved LV...
Pulmonary valve interventions
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Dive into pulmonary valve interventions with this selection of cases: explore the application of transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation in dysfunctional native right ventricular outflow tracts, witness the percutaneous treatment of iatrogenic pulmonary stenosis through transcatheter valve implantation, delve into percutaneous options for managing a large pulmonary...
TAVI and beyond: tackling coronary challenges
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Consult this session to gain a comprehensive understanding of the crucial role of coronary access post-TAVI, and the impact of TAV design and implantation technique on coronary access. Gain some insights into the intricacies of coronary accessibility from extensive bench test work and the impact of TAV design in...
TAVI in TAVI procedures
18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Join us as we unravel the intricacies of TAVI within TAVI procedures in this session, exploring innovative approaches and techniques for challenging clinical situations: encounter the challenges posed by severe central aortic regurgitation following TAVR with unexpected valve degeneration, discover the management strategies for a degenerated transcatheter...
Interventional solutions for post-surgical problems
18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Experience the cutting-edge world of interventional solutions for post-surgical problems in this session: delve into intriguing cases like acquired left circumflex stenosis after aortic valve surgery presenting as thin cap fibroatheroma, encounter the rare complication of a giant submitral left ventricle pseudo-aneurysm following mitral valve surgery,...
Coronary access and PCI after TAVI
16 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Watch this session to learn more about the epidemiology of PCI after TAVI, to learn how to approach an elective patient with TAVI requiring PCI, or a patient with THV requiring urgent coronary angiography and PCI, among others.
Aortic stenosis and concomitant coronary artery disease
29 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session dedicated to aortic stenosis and concomitant coronary artery disease to learn how and when to screen for CAD in TAVI candidates, how to optimise your procedure to facilitate future coronary access, and to discover some tips and tricks for successful coronary angiography and PCI after TAVI.
Rapid-Fire clinical cases: Session 3
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session to discover a selection of clinical cases presented during PCR LV 2022: tunnel stent technique as an alternative treatment for left main protection in valve-in-valve TAVI, coronary embolisation due to valve-in-valve aortic prothesis thrombosis, aortic prosthetic valve dysfunction due to endocarditis, and more!
Rapid-fire abstracts: Session 9
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session to discover a selection of abstracts presented during PCR LV 2022: impact of different aortic valve calcification pattern on the haemodynamic performance of self-expanding intra-annular transcatheter heart valve, device failure in bicuspid aortic stenosis following TAVR, the learning curve and clinical outcomes in...
EuroPCR 2022 Awards
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Now it's time for the awards! Relive the EuroPCR 2022 award ceremony and discover the winners of the following awards: EAPCI Fellowship Awards, Personalised Vascular Care Award, Jon DeHaan Foundation Award, and PCR's Got Talent competition.
Transcatheter mitral valve implantation in challenging anatomies
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Discover a rare complication after transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve replacement, learn more about early TMVR in mitral annular calcification valve failure, witness a mitral bioprosthesis dysfunction after three previous stenotomies, and even more!
Open the pass: interventions to facilitate transfemoral TAVI in calcified access
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Consult this session to discover some interventions to facilitate transfemoral TAVI in challenging situations, such as: coarctation and aortic stenosis with very high surgical risk, severe aortic stenosis with large infra-renal abdominal aneurysm, severe circumferential calcified bilateral iliac stenosis with thick protruding nodules, and much more!
Prevention and treatment of complications related to valve interventions
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
To learn more about the prevention and treatment of complications related to valve interventions, watch these cases, including the case of a 70 year old with Iatrogenic aortic stenosis, the closure of paravalvular leaks of a 68 year old male affected by chronic aortic dissection or...
Mitral paravalvular leak and other challenges
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
In this EuroPCR 2022 session, view complex percutaneous mitral paravalvular leak closures, a difficult mitral commissurotomy, percutaneous indirect annuloplasty for functional mitral insufficiency, and much more!
