TAVI (Transcatheter aortic valve implantation)

Watch this session with Christian Hengstenberg, Mika Laine & Stefan Toggweiler to learn more which variable need to be take into account for improving efficiency in TAVI by implementing an early discharge program.

This interview supported by Boston Scientific was filmed at PCR Valves e-Course 2020 : see more...

Surgeons have been for many years the only interventionalists. The only “doctors” to dare enter the body and mechanically intervene on structures to cure or improve quality of life. The link between surgeons and interventional cardiologists is very strong. Many surgeons contributed to the development of...

A 79-year old female patient was referred to hospital for treatment of a symptomatic severe aortic stenosis... This case describes the challenges and decision-making process related to TAVI in a patient with BAV and a horizontal aorta.

In this “insight” review the authors describe the evolution of this novel technique towards its complete validation in the clinical setting for TAVI, as well as the present and future application of the method in clinical trials and in the assessment of regurgitation in other valve...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and safety of the bioprosthetic or native aortic scallop intentional laceration to prevent iatrogenic coronary artery obstruction (BASILICA) technique during TAVI in an initial cohort at a single European centre.

In this case, a few days after TAVI the heart team has to treat a femoral artery pseudoaneurysm on a 83-year woman. Learn more about their strategy!

At TCT Connect 2020, Jeffrey Moses presented the results of the REFLECT II trial. Mirvat Alasnag provides a summary of the key messages.

At TCT Connect 2020, David J. Cohen (Kansas City, Missouri, USA) presented results from an analysis of the TVT registry focusing on impact of Cerebral Embolic Protection (CEP) on TAVR outcomes. Nicolas Dumonteil provides a summary of the key messages.

Reporting from TCT Connect 2020, Mirvat Alasnag interviews Hans-Josef Feistritzer who presented the results of the SOLVE-TAVI trial. 

At TCT Connect 2020, Late-Breaking Trial Session II, the primary results of the Safety and Efficacy Comparison of Two TAVI Systems in a Prospective Randomized Evaluation (SCOPE) 2 trial were presented and simultaneously published in Circulation. Daniele Giacoppo provides a summary of the trial.

Vijay Kunadian provides a summary of the coronary & structural late-breaking studies presented during TCT Connect 2020 and shares some take-home messages. See how these studies might influence your daily practice!

View reviews and take-home messages from a selection of major Late-breaking Clinical Trials in Interventional Cardiology released at the 2020 online edition of TCT Connect. Check out the list here!

In this case of an 86-year-old woman, multiple factors make this a complex high-risk PCI. The interventional cardiologist encountered 3 obstacles to engage the coronary! Watch how he overcame this challenge.

Reported from ESC Congress 2020 - Mirvat Al Asnag interviews Anna Sonia Petronio (Pisa, Italy) on the results of POPULAR TAVI which showed that in patients not taking oral anticoagulation, aspirin alone compared with aspirin plus clopidogrel following TAVI significantly reduced bleeding rates and did not increase thromboembolic events.

The purpose of this study is to report outcomes of TC and TAx access using the Edwards SAPIEN 3 and SAPIEN 3 Ultra valves from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)/American College of Cardiology (ACC) Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) Registry.

A 56-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis underwent transapical TAVR in 2012. In 2017, the patient was referred for exertion dyspnea and transesophageal echocardiogram showed severe stenosis of the bioprosthesis...

A 78-year-old gentleman had transcatheter aortic valve implantation using an Evolut™ R valve. On computed tomography (CT) the perimeter-derived annulus diameter was 29.1 mm. A 34 mm Evolut R was precisely loaded and the same was confirmed fluoroscopically before insertion into the sheath.

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Watch this video to find out what were the most essential, impactful and influential papers published in EuroIntervention and the European Heart Journal over the past year, and learn more about the academic versus social impact of citations.

Watch this case discussion if you want to appreciate the factors that predict conduction abnormalities during TAVI (and how to avoid them), to understand which patients are at risk of late abnormalities and need prolonged monitoring after TAVI and to identify which patients require permanent pacemaker...