Tanja Rudolph
Latest contributions
How to approach the challenges of large annuli in TAVI
29 Aug 2025
Register for free to this webinar on Monday 8 September at 5:00pm (UTC+2) with T. Rudolph, D. Buckert and A. Schäfer and understand the challenges of TAVI in patients with large annuli, and much more!
Valve choice - Shaping index procedures and lifetime patient management
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This session addresses recent advancements and ongoing challenges in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), with a particular focus on valve selection during index procedures. Presentations include data from the Accurate IDE trial, highlighting the prognostic implications of valve underexpansion. A clinical case involving an 80-year-old patient with severe...
Redo TAVI - How to treat different TAVI platforms when they fail
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Understand the complexities of redo TAVI procedures with emphasis on planning, valve platform characteristics, and tailored procedural strategies. This session features cases of redo TAVI for failed short-frame and tall-frame valves, alongside discussions on current evidence gaps guiding optimal management.
What did we learn from my TAVI complications?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Review critical lessons from TAVI complications, focusing on early identification and management of access site issues and acute coronary obstruction. Learn effective preventive actions and procedural strategies to minimize severe TAVI-related complications through detailed case discussions.
TAVI in difficult scenarios: bicuspid anatomy and pure aortic regurgitation
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Address challenging TAVI scenarios involving bicuspid anatomy and pure aortic regurgitation with insights from international experiences. This session compares treatment options in China and Germany, explores anatomical and disease differences, and reviews various TAVI devices through detailed case presentations and expert commentary.
Hotline TAVI 3: Challenging anatomical and clinical scenarios
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
This hotline session presents challenging anatomical and clinical scenarios in TAVI, including outcomes in bicuspid aortic valve patients, chronic aortic regurgigation, comparisons of surgical versus percutaneous approaches, and real-world data on valve performance and resource utilization.
Inludes:
- Five-year outcomes from the Evolut low risk TAVR bicuspid study
- Surgical versus...
Novel devices for edge-to-edge mitral repair
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Discover novel devices advancing transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TEER). This session presents clinical experiences with cost-effective and uniquely designed TEER systems for patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation and heart failure, including first-in-man applications and case series demonstrating safety and efficacy.
Hotline TAVI 1: extended analysis of the randomised trials
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain comprehensive insights from extended analyses of randomized TAVI trials. This session reviews five-year UK TAVI outcomes, cardiac damage evolution in asymptomatic aortic stenosis, one-year results from the LANDMARK trial, and three-year comparisons of balloon-expandable valves, highlighting critical clinical implications.
Full physiology: why and how to assess beyond coronary epicardial disease
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Understanding full coronary physiology is key to improving patient care. This EuroPCR 2025 session unpacks the concept and shows how to apply it easily in everyday clinical settings. Explore the latest ESC guidelines for managing patients with angina and no obstructive coronary artery disease (ANOCA), supported...
Redo TAVI: how to treat different TAVI platforms when they fail?
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
In this EuroPCR 2025 interview, Tanja Rudolph, Dan Blackman, and Radoslaw Parma take a deep dive into the current understanding of redo TAVR.
Together, they address the main challenges faced in repeat procedures—chiefly, the risk of coronary obstruction and the importance of preserving coronary access, alongside strategies...
Expanding the heart team - Improved TAVI outcomes through pre-and post-procedure collaboration
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
In this session, learn how to advance heart team collaboration through optimized TAVI pre-work-up and refined severe aortic stenosis patient selection, ensuring accurate intervention indications. Gain hands-on insights for effective post-TAVI strategies, explore procedural and valve refinements that simplify post-TAVI PCI, and stay informed on the...
Valvular and structural interventions
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session features presentations and discussions on various novel transcatheter technologies for valvular and structural heart interventions. It includes a novel transcatheter tricuspid repair technology, a new endovascular aortic root and total arch stent-graft replacement system, a novel self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve, and a transcatheter mitral...
TAVI in challenging anatomies
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Explore the complexities of TAVI in patients with intricate aortic stenosis: learn the critical role of detailed CT imaging and meticulous pre-procedural planning, and find out how to customize valve selection and implantation techniques to match unique patient anatomies, such as highly calcified tricuspid valves, low...
Key questions in aortic valve intervention - What are the surgical and transcatheter treatment options for patients with severe aortic regurgitation?
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Although aortic regurgitation is highly prevalent, it remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Fortunately, the latest devices should rapidly reverse this trend, both surgically and through transcatheter treatments. Find out more about the options available today, whether surgical or transcatheter, with their benefits and limitations, and how to choose them...
PCR London Valves 2023 EAPCI Awards Ceremony
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Discover the winners of the EAPCI Awards in this ceremony jointly presented by Emanuele Barbato, EAPCI President, and Tanja Rudolph, Co-Chair of the EAPCI Fellowship Grants Committee. While 14 nominees were shortlisted, seven had already been honored at EuroPCR 2023: Find out who the lucky winners...
Mitral valve intervention in complex scenarios - Transcatheter mitral valve replacement - who are the eligible patients, and what are the available options?
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
This PCR London Valves 2023 session about mitral valve interventions seeks to address three key questions: identifying the ideal patient for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI), exploring treatment alternatives for ineligible patients, and discussing the prediction and management of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Watch video...
Aortic regurgitation - Part 2
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Dive into this session on aortic regurgitation to uncover the promising short-term outcomes of managing aortic regurgitation in patients with LVADs using a specialized TAVI device, to gain insights from an intermodal assessment approach utilizing both cardiac CT and MRI to evaluate the severity of aortic...
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: From simple to complex - LIVE case
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
This session explores two clinical cases, providing valuable insights into the essential components of a straightforward and efficient TAVI procedure. Find out more about the application of innovative devices to broaden the scope of aortic valve intervention, facilitating their integration into Heart Team discussions and daily...
Mitral edge-to-edge repair using advanced imaging techniques
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Tricuspid valve intervention in complex scenarios - Patient and procedural optimisation
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Watch this session to enhance your knowledge on optimizing patients throughout the entire transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention process— from pre-procedure preparation to post-procedural care. Learn effective strategies for managing immediate and early complications, refine post-procedural treatment plans, and gain insights into future strategies aimed at further...
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...
Clinical outcomes after TAVI: Session 2
29 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session on the clinical outcomes after TAVI to learn more about the first results after commercial TAVI utilising the JenaValve Trilogy system for aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation, the outcomes of contrast-zero TAVI vs. standard practice in patients with severe renal dysfunction, and more!
Treatment of multi-valve disease
29 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Get a look at these presentations to learn more about the basic haemodynamic interactions between different valve lesions, the existing surgical standards (and evolving transcatheter standards) for the treatment of multi-valve disease, and to discover a selection of cases that demonstrate the importance of clear indications and appropriate timing...
Challenging scenarios: acute coronary obstruction
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Discover some challenging case of acute coronary obstruction in these presentations, and learn more about the anatomical and procedural factors that predict this complication during TAVI, the available strategies for coronary protection during TAVI, as well as the leaflet laceration techniques to prevent TAVI-induced coronary obstruction.
Challenging scenarios: bioprosthetic valve dysfunction
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session to learn more about the different causes of bioprosthetic valve dysfunction and the best options (surgical, transcatheter or medical) for the management of patients with this kind of dysfunction, as well as to discover how valve design impacts on durability and what the future holds...
The unmet need in severe aortic regurgitation: are we ready for TAVI?
The prevalence of valvular heart disease increases with advanced age and unfortunately, in many patients, it’s underdiagnosed, especially aortic regurgitation. In this presentation recorded for PCR London Valves 2022, Tanja Rudolph raises the question: are we ready for TAVR in aortic regurgitation?
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A new evolution: TAVR for aortic regurgitation with the JenaValve Trilogy System
22 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves
Watch this session released during PCR London Valves 2021 Congress to have a deep dive into aortic regurgitation: the natural history, the clinical reality of it, and a fantastic live recorded case, so as to gain deeper understanding of the progression of severe aortic regurgitation, to learn more...
Procedural aspects of TAVI patient long-term management
22 Nov 2021 – From PCR London Valves 2021
At the PCR London Valves 2021 Congress, a session was proposed to discuss long-term management of TAVI patients: gain knowledge in procedural PCI access after TAVI through case examples, and learn more about the essential steps of the cusp overlap implantation technique by watching it now!
Discover the new Evolut™ PRO+ TAVI System
17 Jun 2021
New data from Optimize PRO interim analysis
From a design built on a proven platform1, the Evolut™ PRO+ system provides the performance and outcomes you need to help patients live life to the fullest.
