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PCR London Valves 2025: Best of Social Media Coverage
20 Nov 2025
This year’s coverage was built on innovative formats to support one clear strategy: sharing strong messages and high-quality education through well-prepared, creative content. The #PCRLV social media team was led by Pamela Gatto, and divided into 6 tracks: aortic, mitral, tricuspid, closure, imaging and nursing.
TAVI: technical tips and tricks
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session provides practical technical guidance for TAVI procedures emphasizing multimodality imaging for ultra-low contrast implantation, contrast-free techniques tailored for type 0 bicuspid aortic valves, and innovative bailout strategies for rapid pacing failure. It also covers advanced access management approaches in contrast-zero TAVI and current commissural...
TAVI embolisation - Part 2
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on managing complications related to TAVI valve embolisation and migration. It includes detailed case discussions on balloon-expandable valve dislocation into the left ventricle, intra-annular migration managed by valve-in-valve techniques, and successful strategies for self-expanding valve migration. The session underscores the importance of readiness...
Featured research - TAVI - Part 14
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This featured research session presents pivotal findings on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), including 30-day and one-year outcomes from the VANTAGE trial, novel concepts for assessing aortic stenosis severity, and the influence of mitral annular calcification on conduction disturbances. Additional topics cover the role of clinical...
TAVI: alternative access - Part 2
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses alternative access routes for TAVI in patients with challenging vascular anatomy. Topics include transapical valve-in-valve procedures complicated by severe aortic regurgitation, percutaneous TAVI via the brachiocephalic trunk, and strategies for managing hostile vascular anatomies. Solutions for scenarios where transfemoral TAVI is not feasible...
TAVI and coronary artery disease - Part 2
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on the intersection of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and coronary artery disease, addressing complex clinical scenarios. It covers innovative approaches such as double "chimney" stenting with balloon-expandable TAVI, strategies for high-risk TAVR combined with multivessel PCI, advances in Medtronic Fx+ TAVR technology,...
TAVI device selection and implantation - A perspective for nurses and allied professionals
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session offers an in-depth perspective tailored for nurses and allied professionals on TAVI device selection and implantation. It covers critical assessment techniques for aortic stenosis severity, detailed patient selection criteria, and step-by-step procedural insights. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive overview of valve options including self-expanding...
Featured research - TAVI - Part 11
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents featured research on TAVI, highlighting long-term outcomes and innovations in transcatheter aortic valve therapy. It includes registry data on mild paravalvular leak impact, five-year evaluations of the Hydra THV, comparisons between deep learning and manual echocardiographic assessments, pacemaker implantation outcomes post-TAVI, and procedural...
TAVI in challenging anatomies
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on the challenges of performing TAVI in complex anatomical settings. It covers issues such as valve compression, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-related left ventricular responses, alternative management strategies during crises, and handling anatomical complexities like membranous septal aneurysm at the annulus and sinus of Valsalva in...
TAVI complications - Part 3
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session provides a detailed examination of TAVI-related complications and their management. Key topics include the STJ-sling technique, valve frame underexpansion diagnosis, real-time intracardiac echocardiography utility, recurrent cardiac arrest scenarios during TAVI, and management strategies for valve in-folding in self-expanding transcatheter valves.
Featured research - TAVI - Part 12
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents advanced research on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), featuring an extensive 30-year in-vitro durability analysis of the Evolut self-expanding valve. It also covers predictive studies on valve-in-valve procedure volumes comparing Japan and the United States, insights into TAVI in patients with left ventricular...
Featured research - TAVI - Part 13
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session delves into key clinical and procedural advances in TAVI, including the randomized PAF-TAVI trial assessing amiodarone for preventing post-TAVI atrial fibrillation, cost comparisons of balloon-expandable tissue preservation valves versus other devices, leaflet modification methods to reduce coronary obstruction risk, optimization techniques for valve-in-valve TAVI...
Complications of valve-in-valve TAVI
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses the complex complications associated with valve-in-valve TAVI procedures. Topics include delayed coronary compromise, unexpected clinical scenarios, the importance of recognizing surgical bioprosthesis types, the dual role of calcium in TAVI, and intricate left ventricular complications that can arise post valve-in-valve interventions.
TAVI complications - Part 4
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on complex complications encountered in TAVI procedures, presenting challenging cases such as combined adverse events, wire-related technical difficulties, differential diagnosis between hypoattenuated leaflet thickening and infective endocarditis one year post-TAVI, issues caused by fractured sheath tips impacting valve expansion, and sinus breaches. These...
TAVI-in-TAVI - Part 2
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session explores the evolving field of TAVI-in-TAVI interventions, presenting complex cases such as transfemoral TAVI-in-TAVI for degenerated transapical clip-fixed valves in transplanted hearts, management of very late TAVI migration in Bentall de Bono patients, TAVI for degenerated Evolut R valves, stepwise approaches to coronary protection...
Curious TAVI scenarios - Part 3
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session examines unusual and challenging clinical scenarios following TAVI, including presentations of cyanosis, evolving valvular defects such as growing paravalvular holes, atypical imaging findings, paradoxical transvalvular gradients switching from aortic regurgitation to stenosis resolved by postdilatation, and bicoronary protection techniques in patients with low coronary...
TAVI embolisation - Part 1
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session explores the critical issue of TAVI valve embolisation, presenting real-world cases that emphasize rapid problem-solving and interventional management strategies. Discussions include bailout techniques for embolised valves, managing multiple valve implantations in severe aortic stenosis, and expectations for TAVI in pure aortic regurgitation. The session...
TAVI: nightmare in the cathlab - Part 3
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session reviews challenging complications encountered during TAVI procedures, highlighting emergent situations such as coronary occlusion and cardiac arrest. It also discusses unique cases including bicuspid aortic valve-related haemolysis, novel vascular access approaches like lithotripsy, and successful management of double perforation complications. The session provides critical...
TAVI complications - Part 5
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session highlights acute and urgent complications following TAVI implantation, including myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, and challenging catheterization scenarios. It provides detailed case analyses illustrating the limits of TAVI procedures and the critical importance of prompt recognition and intervention in adverse events, enhancing clinician preparedness for...
TAVI: complex vascular access - Part 3
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on managing complex vascular access challenges in TAVI procedures. It includes case discussions on non-crossable aortic valve stenosis, transseptal TAVI for severe aortic regurgitation with porcelain aorta, and percutaneous implantation in patients with unconventional anatomy or conditions like shaggy syndrome. Strategies for severe...