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How to snare a TAVI when crossing is too complex
30 Jan 2025
Crossing the aortic valve can pose significant challenges, particularly in cases involving a horizontal aorta, bulky asymmetric calcifications, or prior prosthesis implantation in valve-in-valve procedures. While some TAVI devices feature deflectable delivery systems to enhance coaxiality, current self-expanding valves lack this capability. When standard techniques like...
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Degenerated bioprosthesis and Bentall surgery: how to track and position the valve with an angulated ascending aorta conduit?
06 Feb 2025
Complex procedures, such as TAVI in patients with a degenerated bioprosthesis and a Bentall surgery history, demand meticulous planning. This case highlights the importance of computed tomography imaging to minimize procedural risks and explores the snare strategy for navigating anatomical constraints. Learn how this approach, adaptable to...
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Balloon-expandable vs self-expanding valves for transcatheter treatment of Sievers type 1 bicuspid aortic stenosis
22 Jan 2025
The AD-HOC Registry aimed to evaluate procedural success and clinical outcomes of current-generation BEVs and SEVs in treating stenotic Sievers type 1 BAV.
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Focus on Fundamentals in TAVI and mitral - PCR London Valves 2024
Christopher Cook interviews Nicole Karam about the Fundamentals Course, a key component of the PCR London Valves programme that continues to expand each year. Designed for beginners in TAVI or mitral interventions, the course guides participants through every step of a procedure, starting with the basics...
Focus on simulation - PCR London Valves 2024
Francesco Maisano and Pamela Gatto highlight the simulation-based learning approach at PCR London Valves. This educational journey begins with observing experts, followed by hands-on training, fostering discussions, idea exchange, and device testing before real interventions. The structured programme, complete with a "passport," offers specialized tracks for...
Focus on Innovation - PCR London Valves 2024
Azeem Latib and Jose Calle Gordo reflect on the PCR London Valves 2024 programme, which showcased groundbreaking advancements in valve technology. Highlights included sessions on transforming ideas into market-ready devices, intimate small-group discussions fostering meaningful exchange, and a hands-on innovation session to explore new devices. The...
Focus on Imaging - PCR London Valves 2024
Victoria Delgado and Nina Wunderlich delve into the imaging highlights from PCR London Valves 2024, emphasizing the critical role of advanced imaging for structural interventions. They spotlight the importance of emerging technologies in achieving precise, well-dosed procedures. A standout feature is the Imaging Learning Centre, offering...
The five most impactful trials of 2024
19 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Stay ahead of the curve by exploring the five most impactful cardiovascular intervention trials of 2024. Gain insights into the latest evidence that can transform your clinical practice. Analyze the methodology and applicability of these groundbreaking studies, and learn how to seamlessly integrate them into your...
Challenging structural interventions #2
19 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Explore this session on challenging structural interventions, covering critical topics such as when to transition from the cath lab to the operating room, considerations around post-dilation when performing valve-in-valve procedures, strategies for preventing complications in TAVI for bicuspid aortic valve and coarctation of the aorta, as...
Align for the future with Myval THV series - From randomised trials to everyday clinical practice
19 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Stay ahead in TAVI innovation by exploring the advanced balloon-expandable Myval THV series. This session highlights the latest clinical data, optimal sizing and implantation techniques, and valuable real-world insights, including long-term follow-up results.
When complications storm through the cathlab #2
19 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Brace yourself as we delve into a captivating session showcasing a series of complex and challenging complications that can arise in the catheterization laboratory. From a coiling gone awry to a stuck burr in an elderly patient, this session offers invaluable insights and strategies for navigating...
Complications and challenging cases #2
19 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Dive into this session to explore a collection of challenging cases and complications encountered in interventional cardiology. From a ruptured balloon inside a coronary artery to a percutaneous ventricular septal rupture closure post myocardial infarction, uncover the strategies and techniques used to manage these complex situations....
TAVI in complex situation - LIVE case
18 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Discover a LIVE case followed by a recorded case exploring complex transcatheter aortic valve interventions:
- An 85-year-old woman with a history of RCA PCI, COPD, CKD stage 3, and LBBB on ECG presented with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis and preserved LV function (67%). With an aortic...
Align for the future with Myval THV series and complex PCI solutions
18 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Explore the future of complex PCI with Meril Life’s advanced solutions. Learn about thin-strut platforms, dedicated stents for side branches and diffuse lesions, the role of drug-eluting balloons in metal-free PCI, and the clinical potential of the Myval THV technology.
Optimisation of immediate and long-term outcomes using a novel self-expanding valve
18 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
Explore the features and benefits of the ACURATE neo2, a novel self-expanding valve, through clinical cases and recorded procedures. Gain insights into step-by-step implantation techniques, the latest evidence in TAVI, and outcomes from immediate to long-term, focusing on lifetime patient management.
Best abstracts session #2
18 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
This 'Best Abstracts' session features a diverse range of cutting-edge research in interventional cardiology. Explore insights into the Canadian experience with balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, gain mechanistic understanding of iatrogenic coronary artery dissections through direct angioscopic visualization, and delve into the outcomes...
Complications and challenging cases #1 in interventional cardiology
18 Dec 2024 – From GulfPCR-GIM 2024
This session delves into a range of complex and challenging cases in interventional cardiology. Explore a coronary balloon fracture compromising the vascularization of the forearm after a radial approach PCI, as well as strategies for surviving the storm during challenging procedures. Discover an emergency transcutaneous balloon...
TAVI and FFR-guided PCI vs. SAVR and CABG in AS with complex or multivessel CAD: the TCW Trial
16 Dec 2024
The TCW trial found that FFR-guided PCI with TAVI offers favorable one-year outcomes, including lower rates of all-cause mortality, MI, disabling stroke, revascularisation, valve reintervention, and severe bleeding, compared to CABG with SAVR.
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Compare TAVI - Top Late Breaking Trial at PCR London Valves 2024
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Chiara De Biase and Christian Terkelsen review the one-year results of the Compare TAVI randomized study, which set a benchmark for evaluating the performance and safety of new transcatheter heart valves (THVs) compared to best-in-practice THVs. The findings revealed that the Myval THV series was non-inferior...
TAVI for pure aortic regurgitation with a dedicated CE-mark device: an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
Explore this session to learn about the unmet needs in aortic regurgitation (AR) and the performance of dedicated TAVI devices for AR. Discover why new thresholds for severe AR are necessary, and how traditional methods may underestimate its severity. Gain insights into the TRILOGY THV system,...
