Yusuke Watanabe
Latest contributions
Managing TAVI-embolisation device
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Focus on managing TAVI device embolization in this specialized session. Discuss detailed techniques such as TAVI-in-TAVI procedures, addressing valve dysfunction, and innovative balloon-assisted retrieval methods for migrated transcatheter heart valves, emphasizing procedural nuances and bailout strategies.
Acute and late coronary complications post-TAVI
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Gain insights into acute and late coronary complications following TAVI. This session discusses angina post-TAVI, mechanisms of acute severe mitral regurgitation during TAVR, hidden coronary obstructions, sudden hemodynamic collapse, and acute coronary occlusion after balloon aortic valvuloplasty.
Challenging vascular access and closure management
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Address challenging vascular access and closure management in complex TAVI cases. This session covers the selection of femoral access, use of PTA and intravascular lithotripsy, and strategies to manage closure failure with illustrative real-world cases.
Nightmare in mitral valve intervention
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Mitral interventions don’t always go as planned: learn how to navigate complex challenges, manage complications and optimize outcomes with this session!
You'll discover real-world cases (isolated PMVL prolapse treated with PASCAL, recurrent MR post-repair with the BATMAN procedure and edge-to-edge repair for primary MR with posterior MAC),...
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.
Hot topics in TAVI
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Explore the latest hot topics in TAVI, including the impact of balloon-expandable TAVR valve deformation and calcium distribution on outcomes in bicuspid aortic valve, the outcomes of complex and high-risk vs. standard PCI in TAVI patients, hemodynamic outcomes after TAVI for aortic stenosis with small annuli,...
Complex anatomical features
09 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Dive into a captivating session that explores complex anatomical features in interventional cardiology. Discover dynamic improvements in tricuspid valve coaptation and regurgitation post-TAVI, the overlooked threat of aortic stenosis hidden by mitral stenosis, marked improvement in left ventricular function after simultaneous TAVI and M-TEER, recognition of...
Nightmare in TAVI
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Watch this session replay featuring two challenging cases: valve embolisation with a balloon-expandable valve and coronary obstruction with a self-expandable valve. Learn key lessons from the first case, including the importance of secure pacing, avoiding damage to the descending aorta while retrieving the embolised valve, and...
The value of WATCHMAN therapy - Who should we treat?
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
Delve into the value of WATCHMAN therapy in this sponsored session by Boston Scientific. Explore the latest evidence and future perspectives of this innovative treatment option. Understand who the ideal patient is for WATCHMAN therapy and how to identify them in daily clinical practice, including TAVI...
TAVI in small annulus - LIVE case
08 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
A 79-year-old female with CAD (stenosis in the mid-LAD), asthma, and diabetes presented with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. Left ventricular function was preserved, with an annulus measuring 355 mm², and the valves were heavily calcified.
A Navitor Vision valve was implanted with predilatation (18 mm balloon) under...
Mastering techniques from basic to complex - Imaging for aortic stenosis
07 Feb 2025 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2025
This session provides essential insights into mastering techniques for aortic stenosis imaging, from basic to complex cases. Explore the impact of moderate stenosis and cardiac damage, learn the key elements of TAVI CT analysis, and discover strategies to optimize valve expansion and overcome challenges in transfemoral...
Featured Cases - Challenging mitral TEER (Part 2)
25 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Explore a collection of challenging mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) cases in this featured session. Gain insights into managing severe mitral regurgitation in an octogenarian with Barlow's syndrome, tackling the A1 prolapse, performing TEER for mitral valve prolapse at the commissure, and addressing severe mitral regurgitation...
Featured cases - Strategic approaches in mitral regurgitation
24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Immerse yourself in this featured session showcasing strategic approaches in the management of mitral regurgitation. Explore a range of complex cases, including percutaneous annuloplasty with a novel device in functional mitral regurgitation, the management of mitral annulus cavity and regurgitation post-healed endocarditis, simultaneous management of two...
Featured cases - Atrial septal challenges during mitral TEER
24 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Delve into this session showcasing selected PCR London Valves 2024 Clinical Cases submissions that highlight the complexities and challenges associated with atrial septal issues during mitral TEER procedures. Explore cases involving a bailout strategy to manage acute single leaflet detachment during Mitraclip, navigating a challenging transseptal...
Shaping the future of structural heart disease intervention
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Consult this session if you want to discuss the remaining challenges of transcatheter valvular interventions, and to review latest innovations for structural heart disease.
TAVI in bicuspid anatomy
18 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
Delve into the complexities of TAVI within bicuspid anatomy through this selection of cases: learn about the challenges and techniques involved in overcoming the horizontal aorta, explore how to size the transcatheter aortic valve in severely calcified bicuspid anatomy, and more!
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 for patients with concomitant coronary artery disease - LIVE case
17 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
An 88-year-old male presented a severe symptomatic aortic valve with preserved LV function (64%), a coronary artery disease with a LAD PCI a few years ago and a significant (75%) RCA stenosis with an FFR angio at 0.74. He also has a short membrane septum (2.5...
Mastering techniques from basic to complex - TAVI basics
16 Feb 2024 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2024
This session focuses on the basics of TAVI intervention. Learn more about vascular access and closure, the techniques of valve crossing predilatation and wire pacing, and discover the uses of the Evolut FX System for TAVI!
Mitral TEER - Part 2
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Discover compelling cases in TEER with this selection of cases: encounter the complexities of severe mitral regurgitation post-aortic root aneurysm repair, the urgency of percutaneous intervention in acute mitral regurgitation due to papillary muscle rupture, the challenges of acutely decompensated heart failure following complicated surgical AVR,...
Mitral TEER - Part 1
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Consult this session to gain insights into the complexities of Mitral TEER: witness an innovative solution for recurrent mitral regurgitation post-M-TEER showcasing the efficacy of three MitraClips, navigate the challenging terrain of mitral flail repair in a patient with a left main chronic total occlusion, explore...
My worst nightmare in TAVI
Listen to our experts share their most nightmarish TAVI cases and follow the debate around their treatments. For instance, would you make the same choices when faced with a 76-year-old female patient diagnosed as severe AS, transferred for SAVR/TAVI, who got a new Abif and cardiogenic...
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 with advanced imaging techniques - LIVE case
18 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
A 93-year-old female, with chronic kidney disease (GFR:34), diabetes, first degree AV block, present a symptomatic severe calcified aortic stenosis. Watch the operators as they implant an Evolut pro 26mm, guided by ICE in order to check the position of the distal part of the valve with...
Imaging for aortic valve interventions
17 Feb 2023 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2023
In this session, review the anatomy of the aortic valve system, learn how to assess low-flow, low-gradient severe AS, identify the pitfalls to avoid when assessing paravalvular leakage after TAVI, and find out more about how to detect valve thrombosis and degeneration, among others!
Complications: calcified LM-LAD PCI, CHIP and TAVI
08 Oct 2021 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2021
Watch this session on complications to see 3 clinical cases: "calcified LM-LAD PCI with rotablator", "cascading events in a CHIP case" and "complications in TAVI", and discover how they managed to face them.
Addressing the challenges of small annuli patients with the Evolut Platform
27 Sep 2021 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2021
Recognizing that Asian patients, especially women with aortic stenosis, are smaller and have smaller annuli than European ones, for instance, this session discusses the challenges of treating these patients, among them prosthesis patient mismatch, annulus rupture, coronary occlusion, or vascular complication. In addition, the speakers will draw...
Case-based challenging edge-to-edge mitral repair
26 Sep 2021 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2021
Watch this session on mitral valve repair to learn how to successfully perform this procedure, especially in patients with challenging anatomies, and how to face any possible complications.
Bicuspid aortic valves: where do we stand?
26 Sep 2021 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2021
Watch this session to learn more about bicuspid aortic valves: understand patient selection for TAVI, explore sizing and valve selection, and discover the key procedural steps for TAVI in bicuspid AV.
