Vinayak Bapat
Latest contributions
Future devices and techniques for structural heart disease
15 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session surveys the future landscape of structural heart disease treatment, addressing current limitations in transcatheter valve technologies and presenting emerging devices and techniques for aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valves. Attendees will gain insights into innovations poised to transform therapeutic options for structural heart disease.
All you need to know about redo TAVI
15 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This comprehensive session on redo Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) covers critical aspects beyond coronary obstruction risk, including detailed pre-procedural analysis, valve sizing, and innovative procedural techniques such as leaflet modification and optimal angle placement. Post-procedural considerations like antithrombotic therapy and patient-prosthesis mismatch are also thoroughly...
Hot topics and evidence on structural interventions in 2025 and 2026
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Delve into the emerging clinical evidence and key hot topics shaping transcatheter interventions for aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve diseases anticipated to influence clinical practice in 2025 and 2026. This session reviews stroke prevention, valve interventions across the three valves, and integrates recent and upcoming data...
Learn from the experts: lifetime management for Evolut first redo TAVI (TAV-in-TAV) and explant
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session offers an in-depth exploration of lifetime management strategies for patients undergoing Evolut first redo TAVI procedures, including TAV-in-TAV and explant techniques. It provides a comprehensive understanding of clinical decision-making algorithms, technical challenges, and key considerations for successful procedural planning and execution, supported by real-world...
Transcatheter mitral valve replacement in practice
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session provides an in-depth overview of transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) in clinical practice, focusing on patient and anatomical suitability assessments including imaging parameters and risk factors for left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It covers anatomical preparation techniques such as leaflet modification, prior clip removal,...
Featured research - Mitral valve interventions: Physiology & device innovation
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session highlights groundbreaking research on mitral valve interventions featuring advanced transcatheter techniques. Topics include coronary physiology assessment with vFFR in severe mitral regurgitation, predictive versus actual outcomes in TMVR, innovative devices like Epygon and INNOVALVE, and novel approaches such as the ReNiva posterior leaflet replacement...
Transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve, valve-in-ring, and valve-in-MAC
17 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session provides an expert overview of transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve, valve-in-ring, and valve-in-MAC procedures. It focuses on unique anatomical and technical considerations, advanced imaging and pre-procedural planning methods, and procedural techniques including device selection and sizing, guided by experienced high-volume operators to optimize procedural success.
Shaping the future: top innovations at PCR London Valves 2025
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Highlighting transformative innovations from PCR London Valves 2025, this session features advanced technologies such as the Luna TMVR with its unique intuitive design, the novel Tripair technology for tricuspid therapy, and insights into right heart remodeling following transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions with the DUO system, showcasing...
Redo TAVI with pre and post dilatation - LIVE Case
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Watch this live case followed by a live in a box case, regarding a 93-year-old woman with hypertension, chronic bronchitis, and a history of TAVI with a Sapien 3 23 mm (2016) who presented with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis and mildly reduced LV function (50%). An...
Lifetime management with self-expandable valve based on the latest evidence
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Explore the latest evidence on the Evolut system and its impact on long-term valve durability in TAVR. Gain insights into its use for TAV-in-SAV procedures, the role of valve design in optimizing outcomes, and the importance of first-valve selection, commissure alignment, and coronary access.
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...
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...
Transcatheter options for degenerated surgical aortic valves - LIVE case
Recommended by PCR
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
A 77-year-old male with a history of SAVR in 2011 (Magna Ease 23) and moderate chronic kidney disease, with preservedLV function, presented with symptomatic severe aortic regurgitation and stenosis, associated with severe MR.
A Sapien 3 Ultra Resilia 23 valve was implanted under local anesthesia, with hemodynamic...
TAV-in-TAV
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Watch this PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session on TAV-in-TAV to discover essential insights on optimizing the procedure. Learn how CT analysis and precise measurements are critical for success, and why coronary protection, chimney stenting, and leaflet modification must be considered in high-risk cases. Experts discuss key...
How to optimise clinical outcomes with the latest generation intra-annular self-expandable TAVI device?
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Discover the latest advancements in TAVI procedures with this PCR Tokyo Valves 2025 session replay, where leading experts share key strategies to enhance patient outcomes. This session explores how to select the optimal index valve for lifetime management, reduce pacemaker rates with the latest intra-annular self-expanding...
TAV-in-TAV for transcatheter heart valve failure
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Struggling with transcatheter heart valve failure? Don’t miss this video!
Learn the essential steps for planning a re-do TAVI procedure, from analysing CT scans to using the re-do TAVI app for a TAV-in-TAV approach, and watch a real-life case of a 91-year-old patient undergoing a redo procedure...
New technology for transcather valve replacement - LIVE case
25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Watch a series of recorded cases showcasing advanced valve therapies and innovative techniques:
- A 70-year-old man with Marfan syndrome (treated by Bentall and CABG in 2012), impaired LV function (35%), CRT-D, and symptomatic severe primary MR (A2 prolapse with calcification) underwent implantation of an Intrepid valve under...
Mind the gap! - What's missing in the field of transcatheter valve interventions
25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Explore the key requirements for broadly adopting Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair (TMVR), examine the challenges of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in Mitral Valve Replacement (MVR), and identify the additional tools needed for effective mitral valve repair. This session will provide a comprehensive assessment of the...
Contemporary techniques for TAV-in-SAV interventions
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Thanks to this session, take a look at the current outcomes of TAV-in-SAV, analyse the different types of valves and their fracturability, find out more, through case studies, about two different TAV-in-SAV techniques, with or without a stent, and learn how to avoid patient prosthesis mismatch...
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!
Nightmare in mitral valve interventions: sharing solutions together
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
This selection of cases showcase nightmare scenarios during mitral valve interventions. Find out what difficulties might arise during MitraClip procedure, and learn how to prevent complications through optimal treatments and bailouts.
CAD and TAVI
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
What is the clinical impact of CAD in TAVR recipients and how best to treat it? Through this session, gain insight on how to determine optimal CAD assessment in TAVR recipients, learn the timing of coronary revascularisation pre-TAVR, and understand the exact assessment and treatment of...
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...
Valve-in-Valve
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Discover various compelling cases of valve-in-valve interventions in this session: such as TAVI for a structural valve deterioration with winding snake-like aorta, the uses of tomography-fluoroscopy fusion imaging in bioprosthetic aortic valve cracking, and more!
Mastering techniques from basic to complex - Complex scenarios
16 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Learn how to deal with common complex scenarios that might occur during TAVI through this teaching session. Explore complex scenarios such as a balloon valve modification and fracture, valve embolisation, and coronary occlusion through these slides!
DurAVR as a potential valve of choice for future valve-in-valve procedure
06 Dec 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
In this expert interview, Vinayak Bapat interviews Anita Asgar regarding the challenges physicians are facing today with valve-in-valve patients and the potential use of DurAVR, a new balloon-expandable device, in valve-in-valve procedures.
This interview was filmed at PCR London Valves 2023: see more videos here.
How to anticipate, plan and perform a TAV-in-TAV?
25 Jan 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2023
By 2023, although TAVI has become a safe routine procedure, it is now its long-term durability and the planning of a second procedure, particularly in younger patients, that is causing concern.
Vinayak Bapat and Bernard Prendergast discuss how to anticipate any potential TAV-in-TAV, take into account any...
TAVI in complex scenarios - Valve-in-valve TAVI (TAV-in-SAV) - A tailored approach
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
This session is designed for those seeking an understanding of critical imaging principles in planning successful TAV-in-SAV procedures. Gain insights into the latest tools for pre-procedural imaging and learn how to develop customized algorithms for selecting transcatheter heart valves in individual patients undergoing TAV-in-SAV interventions.
Planning and execution of re-do TAVI (TAV-in-TAV) procedures
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Redo TAVI poses challenges but can be managed with a step-by-step procedural plan, ensuring better acute and long-term outcomes. Guidelines and industry resources aid in planning, yet forthcoming registry studies are essential for further data and insights. Watch this session to find out 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...
