Nicola Buzzatti

Cardiac surgeon
Ospedale San Raffaele - Milano, Italy

Latest contributions

Mitral TEER in challenging scenarios - Part 1

22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025

Confront challenging clinical scenarios in mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) with this session highlighting unique case experiences. Topics include innovative approaches to transcatheter mitral valve repair, urgent management of critical complications such as severe mitral regurgitation causing respiratory distress, and complex interventions in resource-limited settings such...

Mitral TEER in challenging scenarios - Part 1

How to build a tricuspid programme?

20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025

Learn how to build a successful tricuspid valve programme with a focus on patient screening protocols, heart team roles, and post-procedural management. Gain expert perspectives on organizational requirements, referral optimization, multidisciplinary collaboration, and quality assessment for tricuspid interventions.

How to build a tricuspid programme?

TAVI: how to prevent stroke

17 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024

This session focuses on strategies for preventing stroke during TAVI procedures. It features case presentations and discussions on the use of cerebral protection devices, including a novel full-body embolic protection device, and the management of complications such as cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome.

TAVI: how to prevent stroke

Pushing TAVI boundaries: daily practice challenges

17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023

Pushing the limits of TAVI is a challenge you face in your daily practice? See how some of your colleagues have tackled the same challenge through this series of cases. To mention a few: TAVR in patient with a large membranous ventricular- Chronic kidney disease and...

Pushing TAVI boundaries

TAVI best practice: implementing cusp overlap and commissural alignment

19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022

Watch this session to understand why commissural alignment should become a standard procedure, why cusp overlap is fundamental for self-expandable devices, and why simulation-based learning is an advanced way to reduce the learning curve.

TAVI best practice: implementing cusp overlap and commissural alignment

Tricuspid valve disease: state-of-the-art

23 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021

Imagine that you are faced with a patient with severe tricuspid regurgitation. You may ask yourself many questions, such as: what could be the prognosis of this patient? What is his/her life expectancy? Is he/she eligible for a particular treatment? What should be the appropriate timing...

Tricuspid valve disease: state-of-the-art

Coronary access following TAVI

23 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021

Using the anatomy and imaging section and simulators, our experts dissect the case of a typical TAVI patient, an 81-year-old male, former smoker, with hypertension, dyslipidemia, and gastric ulcer, symptomatic of effort dyspnea, with marked left ventricular hypertrophy and all the parameters of severe aortic stenosis,...

Coronary access following TAVI

Mitral valve disease: state-of-the-art

21 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021

Did you ever wonder what an expert surgeon can achieve today in mitral repair? Have you ever wondered when to treat an asymptomatic patient with severe mitral regurgitation? These are some of the questions this session from PCR London Valves 2021 will try to answer.

Mitral valve disease: state-of-the-art

TAVI: stroke, cerebral protection and alternative vascular access

18 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019

Consult this session to discover the results of various TAVI trials and studies, and learn more about stroke, cerebral embolic protection and alternative vascular access.

TAVI: stroke, cerebral protection and alternative vascular access

TAVI: novel peri-procedural imaging techniques

18 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019

Consult this session to learn all about the novel peri-procedural imaging techniques for TAVI, and discover the impact of initial Evolut TAVR deployment orientation on final valve orientation and coronary re-access, the prognostic value of diastolic flow reversal on clinical outcomes after TAVR, and more!

TAVI: novel peri-procedural imaging techniques

An image is worth a 1,000 words

23 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session to discover some of the most compelling images shared at EuroPCR 2019.

An image is worth a 1,000 words