Tomohiro Sakamoto
Latest contributions
Learn from the experts: Evolut first implant technique and treatment strategies
15 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This expert-led session offers an in-depth review of evolving clinical practices in aortic valve disease treatment, emphasizing the potential of the transcarotid approach as a primary alternative access route. It compares current strategies including TAVI, surgical aortic valve replacement (SAV), TAV-in-SAV, and TAVI explantation, while addressing...
Mastering mitral TEER: guidelines, complex cases, and Asia Pacific insights
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Focused on mastering mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), this session analyzed the 2025 ESC VHD guidelines and their clinical implications. It addressed optimal timing and treatment strategies for severe heart failure beyond the COAPT trial and explored technical solutions for complex anatomies, including customization approaches for...
Patient-tailored treatment for bicuspid valve
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Delve into patient-tailored treatment strategies for bicuspid aortic valve stenosis, focusing on evidence-based valve selection and sizing for TAVI candidates. This session reviews current device options, procedural planning considerations, and case studies illustrating the use of balloon-expanding and self-expanding valves, emphasizing challenges posed by unfavourable bicuspid...
Valvular interventions
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Explore the latest insights and advancements in valvular interventions in this comprehensive session. Dive into the medical cost analysis of TAVR versus SAVR in Japanese dialysis patients, the long-term outcomes of Myval valve implantation in the pulmonary position, the comparative effectiveness of balloon aortic valvuloplasty techniques,...
TAVI in bicuspid anatomy
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Discover the key insights from this PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session focused on TAVI in bicuspid anatomy. Learn why TAVI for bicuspid aortic stenosis (AS) shows comparable long-term outcomes to tricuspid AS in registry data, and understand the importance of patient selection, precise valve sizing, and...
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...
Rapid-Fire - TAVI-in-TAVI (Part 2)
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Delve into a rapid-fire session showcasing selected clinical cases from PCR London Valves 2024, focusing on TAVI-in-TAVI procedures. Discover insights into unexpected complications, such as coronary artery occlusion, and explore the comparison of hemodynamic valve deterioration processes between self-expanding and balloon-expandable THVs. Learn about procedural planning...
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...
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 in small annulus and coronary artery disease - Session with LIVE case
19 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
Watch the complex case of an 84-year-old woman with hypertension, type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease who presented with worsening NYHA class II-III exertional dyspnoea, but no angina, and find out how she was treated LIVE.
Predictability and control: Evolut procedural approaches
18 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
In this session, delve into Evolut procedural approaches. You will be examining the cusp overlap technique, its latest clinical data and outcomes of the Medtronic's newest generational technology: Evolut FX.
TAVI procedure optimisation with the cusp overlap technique
27 Sep 2021 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2021
In this session, the speakers present the advantages of the cusp overlap technique, providing a technical overview, and predicting that it will lead to best-in-class permanent pacemaker implantation rates, and will also have a great impact on paravalvular leak rates and other clinical endpoints. They further support their point by...
