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Single operator TAVI: where expertise meets consistency
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session addresses the concept of single operator transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), emphasizing the integration of expertise with procedural consistency. Follow a discussion on the benefits of simplifying TAVI to a single operator approach facilitated by an electronically enabled delivery system. The session offers a...
TAVI in 2025: transforming care with the new valvular heart disease guidelines
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session explores how the 2025 valvular heart disease guidelines are transforming the landscape of TAVI care and clinical decision-making. It highlights the paradigm shift in managing severe aortic stenosis and provides a global perspective on the challenges and strategies for managing an expanding TAVI patient...
The index valve matters: optimal index TAVI for a lifetime of possibilities
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
Discover how thoughtful index valve selection and implantation techniques can shape the long-term management of patients undergoing TAVI. This PCR London Valves 2025 session highlights treatment considerations for low- and intermediate-risk patients, explores how valve choice affects the feasibility of future interventions, and examines strategies to...
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...
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: 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-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 - Haemodynamic performance and valve durability
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session provides an in-depth exploration of haemodynamic performance and valve durability following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the differences between invasive and echocardiographic gradients post-TAVI, evaluate the haemodynamic profiles of various transcatheter valve platforms, and appreciate their implications...
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 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...
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: imaging innovation and device performance in TAVI
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...
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: 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...
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: 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...
TAVI valve-in-valve - Part 6
18 Nov 2025 – From PCR London Valves 2025
This session explores valve-in-valve TAVI procedures, addressing intricate cases such as triple valve scenarios, planning challenges in TAVI-in-TAVI, and overcoming obstacles in mitral valve-in-valve therapies. It also presents difficult cases involving dysfunctional stentless aortic bioprostheses and acute leaflet rupture during valve replacement, offering practical insights for...
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...