Gilbert Tang
Latest contributions
Combined valve disease
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
This session delves into the management of combined valve disease, covering topics such as transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement and valve-in-valve/valve-in-ring implantation in high-risk patients, the importance of CT imaging analysis in predicting true mitral stenosis in TAVI patients, the clinical outcomes of mild-to-moderate mixed aortic valve...
Coronary access after TAVI: timing and techniques
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Struggling with PCI after TAVI? This session breaks it down with 3 real-world cases. You'll learn when and how to perform revascularization in severe AS patients, the impact of commissure alignment on future coronary access, and expert techniques for post-TAVI PCI:
- Case 1: Managing a patient with...
Valve in valve in small degenerative surgical bioprosthesis - LIVE case
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
A 74-year-old female with a permanent pacemaker and preserved LV function presented with a symptomatic degenerative surgical valve (SJ Epic 21) implanted in 2016.
Patient underwent implantation of an Evolut FX 26 mm under general anesthesia with cerebral embolic protection and TEE guidance. A surgical valve fracture...
Mastering TAV-in-SAV: strategies, challenges and advanced techniques
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Want to master the ins and outs of TAV-in-SAV? Don’t miss these presentations!
You’ll get expert guidance on evaluating feasibility, choosing the right transcatheter valve and using advanced techniques (valve fracture, leaflet modification, coronary protection...). Plus, you'll dive into multiple real-world case presentations that tackle challenges, share...
Standardised implant technique with self-expandable valve
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Don’t miss this PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session replay, where leading experts share key techniques for simplifying and optimising TAVI procedures with the Evolut device. This session covers essential insights into safely performing procedures on patients with various anatomical types using the self-expandable valve, while emphasising...
M-TEER for primary mitral regurgitation
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
In this PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session on M-TEER for primary mitral regurgitation, gain valuable insights starting with an overview of current TEER devices. Benefit from four case studies that highlight the features of these devices, explore strategies to prevent mitral regurgitation recurrence post-TEER, and delve...
Lifetime management
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
This PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session explores the latest insights into TAVR explantation. It begins with the management of patients with longer life expectancy, then delves into surgical aortic valve replacement, aortic root enlargement, and commissural alignment—key techniques that may improve reintervention outcomes. The session also...
Challenging situations in M-TEER: Takotsubo syndrome
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Dive into this session to explore challenging situations in Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (M-TEER). Discover case studies showcasing a range of complex scenarios, including Takotsubo syndrome following M-TEER, successful TEER with improved visualization using a bronchial blocker, managing cardiac arrest during MitraClip procedures, and more. Gain...
M-TEER for secondary mitral regurgitation
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Managing secondary mitral regurgitation with M-TEER requires a tailored approach. This PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session explores key considerations for atrial functional MR and VFMR beyond COAPT criteria, helping you refine patient selection, procedural strategies, and post-treatment management through expert insights and real-world cases.
Late-Breaking Trial session
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Discover the latest insights from pivotal studies in this PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 LBT session. Explore early feasibility updates from the AltaValve trial, in-hospital outcomes comparing surgical vs. percutaneous intervention in aortic stenosis with coronary artery disease from the JROAD-DPC data, and procedural results from the...
Multivalve disease: defining pathways for optimal assessment and treatment in the absence of good clinical evidence
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Curious about managing multivalve disease in the absence of robust clinical evidence? This video is a must-watch!
You'll explore the latest strategies for assessing and treating this condition (including advanced multimodality investigations like echocardiography, magnetic resonance and cardiac catheterisation), and learn how to evaluate cardiopulmonary interactions and...
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...
TAVI for a lifetime
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session explores long-term aspects of TAVI, focusing on patient life expectancy and valve durability. It provides guidance on optimizing initial TAVI procedures for patients with extended life spans and offers insights into planning and performing redo TAVI. Topics include assessing life expectancy, evaluating TAVI valve...
Managing aortic stenosis in patients with longer life expectancy
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Consult this session to understand what knowledge is needed for discussions with patients concerning lifetime management of valve disease, gain insight into the importance of predictable and precise commissural and coronary alignment for lifetime management, and learn about the indication of TAV-in-TAV and THV explant.
TAVI optimisation
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Consult this series of slides to enhance your understanding of TAVI optimisation through selected studies for PCR Tokyo Valves 2024. Learn about the prognostic value of right ventricle dysfunction after TAVR, explore a risk model in dialysis patients following TAVR, and explore the impact of age...
Imaging for aortic valve disease
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Learn about imaging of the aortic valve system in order to better deal with aortic valve disease. Through this series of cases, explore topics such as the impact of implantation depth relative to membranous septum on TAVI outcomes, delve into a meta-analysis exploring the outcomes of...
Learn the procedure technique - Lifetime management of aortic stenosis therapy with self-expandable valve
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
In this session, learn all about the excellent characteristics of the latest self-expandable valve system and its use during the lifetime management of aortic stenosis therapy. Find out more about how we can effectively and safely perform procedures for various cases with the latest self-expandable valve,...
Learn the evidence - Lifetime management of aortic stenosis therapy with self-expandable valve
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
In this dedicated session on aortic stenosis management, gain insights into interpreting the 10-year outcomes of the NOTION trial, the 4-year outcomes of the Evolut Low Risk trial, and the key findings from the CANNULATE TAVR study, and discuss the issue of long-term device durability, draw comparisons...
Facilitating coronary access after TAVI
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
What are the challenges in coronary access after TAVI and what techniques may be used to facilitate it? Join this session to learn the answers to that question, as well as gaining insight into how to optimize the coronary access in the index procedure.
TAV-in-TAV interventions: a new frontier in TAVI
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Explore the distinctions between TAV-in-TAV and TAV-in-SAV, learn more about the challenges posed by heterogeneity and variability in TAV redo procedures, gain insights into the unified terminology of TAV designs, and uncover how step-by-step CT analysis facilitates comprehensive assessments and post Redo-TAV solutions, drawing from detailed...
Achieving the optimal outcome using the latest self-expandable TAVI - LIVE case
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
An 86-year-old woman presented severe symptomatic aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease with a preserved LV function. The operators performed a PCI of the RCA ostium one month ago. The CT showed a small femoral access (diameter: 5.3 to 4.9 mm).
After a predilatation with a 20 mm...
TAVI - New indications, techniques and devices - Part 2
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Consult this session for a swift overview of evolving TAVI indications and techniques: gain insights into thirty-day outcomes with Evolut FX, stratified by heart team risk, witness the 12-month follow-up of the Valvosoft first-in-man study, uncover sizing considerations in bicuspid tapered aortic valves undergoing TAVI from the...
Rapid-fire - Complex structural interventions
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Explore groundbreaking cases in this session: choosing septal coiling over alcohol septal ablation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, managing a giant LAA with two Watchman Devices, treating a complex pseudoaneurysm in a patient with cardiogenic shock, and more!
Valve performance and durability - Main considerations in selecting the right TAVI valve
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
In this session with LIVE case, participants discuss the critical role of valve selection in influencing patient outcomes. The focus includes understanding the latest clinical outcomes of supra-annular TAVI and SAVR, exploring their practical implications. The session also highlights the contribution of novel technology Evolut FX, in...
TAVI failure - Mechanisms and management
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Explore various cases that focus on TAVI failure, including the effects of the mechanism of TAVR failure on outcomes after re-intervention, the prognostic impact of patient-prosthesis mismatch and paravalvular leak following TAVI, issues related to bioprosthetic valve dysfunction and much more!
Second time TAVI (TAV-in-TAV) - Not as simple as it looks
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Although it is still rare, TAV-in-TAV is likely to become more frequent, as TAVI is increasingly implanted in younger patients. Harmonizing data in this area will therefore help to improve outcomes, the quality of which depends on site experience, bearing in mind that for the time...
Mitral TEER - Part 1
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Consult this session to gain insights into the complexities of Mitral TEER: witness an innovative solution for recurrent mitral regurgitation post-M-TEER showcasing the efficacy of three MitraClips, navigate the challenging terrain of mitral flail repair in a patient with a left main chronic total occlusion, explore...
TAVI in cardiogenic shock
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Because TAVI implantation, a routine procedure, is not always a breeze, look at a number of challenging cases, including a case of aortic stenosis complicated by cardiogenic shock, an emergency valve-in-valve TAVI, or a TAVI for left ventricular assist device.
Valve-in-valve - LIVE case
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Study the case of a 76-year-old female patient with BMI 32, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, mid chronic kidney disease and history of aortic stenosis, whose Perimount Magna Ease 21 (mismatch) surgical bioprosthesis, implanted in 2016, degenerated, with preserved left ventricular function.
An Evolut Pro 26 was implanted in...
Challenging scenarios: TAV-in-TAV procedures
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session to discover some challenging TAV-in-TAV procedures, and learn more about the key role of imaging during pre-procedural work-up and the potential treatment options after TAVI bioprosthetic valve fracture.
