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The Silk Road of MedTech
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Discover pioneering MedTech innovations along the Silk Road, including novel sheath designs for minimalist TAVR, self-expanding valves for pure aortic regurgitation, automated CT quantification via deep learning, and first-in-man experiences with cutting-edge valvuloplasty and TEER devices.
Innovations in TAVR: clinical insights and future perspectives
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Presenting featured research on TAVI, this session covers outcomes from centers without on-site cardiac surgery, comparative leaflet modification techniques, conscious sedation protocols, left ventricular health in timing TAVR, and long-term valve durability insights including seven-year follow-up data.
TAVI in bicuspid anatomy
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Explore the complexities of performing TAVI in bicuspid aortic valve anatomies, with expert discussions on BASILICA tricuspidisation, procedural planning for extreme calcification, valve sizing, and challenges associated with type 0 bicuspid valves and severe calcification.
TAVI valve-in-valve
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents complex valve-in-valve TAVI cases, illustrating advanced techniques such as valve fracture and snaring in difficult anatomies, approaches for pure aortic regurgitation in degenerated surgical valves, and strategies overcoming challenges in stentless bioprostheses and previous aortic repairs.
Beyond TAVI
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session offers a glimpse into cutting-edge structural heart interventions beyond TAVI. It introduces novel devices in early development stages targeting aortic valve stenosis and leaflet modification, discusses strategies to facilitate or defer TAVI, and provides opportunities for engagement with early-stage start-up partners innovating in structural...
Featured research: advances in TAVI for aortic regurgitation and severe stenosis
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session delivers an in-depth analysis of innovative research in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). It includes pivotal studies such as the LANDMARK trial subanalysis on cardiac damage in severe aortic stenosis patients, long-term efficacy comparisons of balloon- and self-expanding valves, and evaluations of valve performance...
Curious TAVI scenarios: from valve-in-valve challenges to life-saving emergency TAVI
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents a series of challenging and unusual TAVI cases, addressing complex scenarios such as persistent gradients after valve-in-valve procedures, advanced sealing techniques for nodules, innovative snare methods, emergency TAVI following diagnostic catheterisation, combined aortic valve and aorta interventions, and the crucial role of echocardiography...
TAVI: high coronary risk
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses the complexities and innovative approaches to managing high coronary risk during TAVI procedures. It features advanced techniques such as the double chimney-stent method, valve-in-valve strategies to prevent coronary obstruction, and challenging cases involving TAVI-in-TAVI. These insights provide practical guidance for interventionalists navigating high-risk...
Emergency transcatheter valve interventions: alternative therapy or bridge to surgery?
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session offers a compelling case-based exploration of emergency transcatheter valve interventions, demonstrating their potential as life-saving alternatives or bridges to surgery in high-risk patients. Through detailed clinical scenarios including cardiogenic shock, acute papillary muscle rupture, and severe aortic regurgitation from infective endocarditis, participants gain practical...
TAVI: nightmare in the cathlab - Cardiac arrest, aortic root rupture & duct occluder
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Explore critical complications encountered during TAVI procedures in this session, which highlights urgent scenarios such as cardiac arrest from calcific leaflet shift, aortic root rupture, and embolisation events. It also covers salvage techniques like TAVR-in-TAVR-in-SAVR in cardiogenic shock and management of acute left main occlusion with...
Hotline - TAVI - Part 1
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This comprehensive session examines the latest evidence and clinical trial data on TAVI, including comparisons of balloon-expandable versus self-expanding valves in failed bioprostheses, techniques to reduce coronary obstruction risk, and real-world outcomes across diverse populations. Cost-effectiveness analyses and longitudinal studies further inform best practices for optimizing...
Valve interventions in congenital heart disease
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents complex valve interventions in congenital heart disease, highlighting challenging cases such as positional hypoxaemia due to iatrogenic atrial defects, navigating residual shunts after PFO closure, and transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement in native right ventricular outflow tracts without pre-stenting. It also examines an intriguing...
Meet the masters: complex TAVI
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session offers an in-depth exploration of complex Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedures, emphasizing practical aspects crucial for daily clinical practice. Expert TAVI operators share their extensive experience, providing valuable tips and tricks on case selection, procedural strategies, and managing complications to optimize patient outcomes.
Patient-tailored TAVI in bicuspid and tricuspid aortic stenosis
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on patient-tailored TAVI strategies for bicuspid and tricuspid aortic stenosis. It reviews recent comparative studies of TAVI devices, discusses the development of individualized TAVI programs for tricuspid aortic stenosis patients, and provides guidance on selecting optimal devices for those with bicuspid aortic valve...
TAVI in aortic regurgitation
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses the challenges and innovations in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for aortic regurgitation. It covers complex clinical scenarios such as severe regurgitation post-endocarditis, alternative access routes complicated by prosthesis embolisation, and the use of dedicated TAVI devices in non-tricuspid valves. The session also...
TAVI-in-TAVI
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session explores the nuanced field of TAVI-in-TAVI procedures, focusing on valve durability considerations between bovine and porcine valves, strategies for redo TAVI post valve-in-valve, and advanced interventions to secure coronary flow such as inter-valvular stenting. It highlights complex anatomical challenges including aberrant coronary origins and...
Valve selection in urgent TAVI: evidence from small annulus studies - Hotline
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents cutting-edge research comparing self-expanding and balloon-expandable valves in urgent and emergent TAVI settings, with a focus on small aortic annuli. It includes data from the NAVULTRA and LANDMARK trials, featuring novel biomimetic balloon-expandable valves and early feasibility studies that shed light on valve...
Featured research: clinical outcomes and real-world evidence in modern TAVI practice
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session presents featured research on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), analyzing clinical impacts of prosthesis oversizing, same-day discharge experiences, and comparative outcomes of intra-annular versus supra-annular self-expanding valves. It also reviews nationwide TAVR data from Germany and meta-analyses assessing TAVI performance in centers without on-site...
Featured research: innovations, safety and evolving pathways in modern TAVI care
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses contemporary challenges in TAVI, including management of acute valve syndrome through service innovations and the application of Valvosoft non-invasive ultrasound therapy in severe aortic stenosis. It also explores complications such as infective endocarditis post-TAVI, evaluates the feasibility of same-day discharge protocols, and assesses...
TAVI and coronary artery disease
16 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session focuses on the interplay between TAVI and coronary artery disease, discussing high-risk TAVR cases requiring complex left main PCI with prophylactic ECMO support. It provides guidance on timing and strategies for managing concomitant coronary artery disease in TAVI patients, addressing the critical decision-making process...
