Rajaram Anantharaman

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist
Kauvery Hospital Chennai - Chennai, India

Latest contributions

Featured cases - Mitral valve-in-valve (Part 2)

26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024

Explore a diverse array of challenging mitral valve-in-valve cases in this session. Discover innovative techniques and strategies, including bailout for uncrossable atrial septum, balloon-assisted translocation of the anterior mitral leaflet, and managing mitral annular calcification. Gain insights into preventing complications like outflow tract obstruction and optimizing...

Featured cases - Mitral valve-in-valve (Part 2)

Featured cases - TAVI in unusual anatomical situations

26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024

Delve into a collection of TAVI cases in unusual anatomical situations, offering valuable insights for navigating complex scenarios. Discover successful percutaneous approaches to address conditions like bicuspid valves with membranous interventricular septum aneurysm, subaortic membrane, and pure aortic regurgitation in quadricuspid valves. Explore strategies for managing...

Featured cases - TAVI in unusual anatomical situations

Featured Cases - Combined valve interventions (Part 2)

25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024

Explore the cutting-edge field of combined valve interventions in this Featured Cases - Combined Valve Interventions (Part 2) session. Witness real-world case presentations showcasing simultaneous M-TEER and TTVR, transcatheter interventions for aortic and mitral prostheses dysfunction and tricuspid valve disease, India's first double valve-in-valve (mitral and...

Featured Cases - Combined valve interventions (Part 2)

Align for the future with Myval THV series - From randomised trials to everyday clinical practice

25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024

Through the presentation of several compelling cases, including an 88-year-old male with CKD, RBBB, moderate LV dysfunction, and severe aortic stenosis, a Type 1a bicuspid native AS, and an extraordinary TAVI in an 83-year-old with acute heart failure and comorbidities, this session will dive into the...

Align for the future with novel balloon expandable Myval THV series

Rapid-fire - Transcatheter interventions for tailed mitral valve prosthesis

18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024

This session of rapid-fire submitted cases focuses on transcatheter interventions for tailed mitral valve prosthesis. Learn about unusual solutions, such a reversed loop and parallel wiring to close crescent mitral paravalvular leak, base-to-tip LAMPOON and IABP during a successful mitral valve-in-valve, and more!

Rapid-fire - Transcatheter interventions for tailed mitral valve prosthesis

Rapid-fire - Valve-in-Valve TAVI

17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024

Through these slides, gain valuable insights into valve-in-valve TAVI from a rapid-fire series of scenarios that cover structural valve deterioration after SAPIEN 3 implantation, a successful aortic valve-in-valve with balloon valve fracture and coronary protection, and TAV-in-SAV for an extremely small failed surgical valve.

TAVI - Coronary access

21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023

Delve into the complexities of TAVI and coronary access with this session: explore the use of IVUS in assessing coronary arteries at high risk for obstruction following valve-in-valve TAVI, witness the application of patient-specific computer simulation to predict coronary re-access post-TAVI in bicuspid anatomy, navigate the...

TAVI - Coronary access

Rapid-fire - Challenging TAVI procedures - Part 4

20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023

Join this session for insights and innovative solutions to challenging TAVI procedures: explore the dynamics of peri-procedural ST-elevation myocardial infarction during TAVR, witness shifting left ventricular and hemodynamic physiology, unravel a curious case of valve-in-valve TAVR with a crossability challenge, confront the obstructive dilemma of high...

Rapid-fire - Challenging TAVI procedures - Part 4

Mitral valve implantation and other technology

19 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023

This session offers insight into advanced mitral valve technologies. It covers details of transapical off-pump repair with synthetic chordae, India's success in transcatheter double valve-in-valve,  TMVI in failing valves, and more.

TAVI and complex coronary artery anatomy

18 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023

What defines 'complex TAVI and coronary artery scenarios'? Join this session to discover when chimney stenting for threatening left coronary artery obstruction becomes the ideal alternative, using balloon-assisted BASILICA for valve-in-valve TAVR, and addressing tissue embolisation post-TAVI.

Unusual situations in valvular interventions

21 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021

Let's discover an electrosurgical removal of an entrapped central venous catheter, witness a coronary extra-adventitial hematoma complication of transcatheter tricuspid annuloplasty, and appreciate buddy balloon technique as bailout strategy during RVOT stent embolization, among others, in this special PCR London Valves 2021 session dedicated to unusual...

Unusual situations in valvular interventions

Coronaries and TAVI

21 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021

Watch this series of videos and learn about TAVR in rheumatic patient with aortic regurgitation, IVUS assessment of coronary ostia following transapical ViV TAVI, "Hybrid thinking" off-pump CABG and TAVI for left main disease and CTO with severe aortic stenosis, and more!

Coronaries and TAVI

TAVI and mitral interventions

17 Feb 2019 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2019

Consult this session to discover challenging TAVI and mitral interventions, such as: bioprosthetic valve fracture, concomitant off-pump beating heart mitral repair and LAA closure, annulus rupture immediately after balloon-expandable transcatheter heart valve implantation, and more!

TAVI and mitral interventions