TAVI (Transcatheter aortic valve implantation)

New EU regulations on medical devices will come into force in 2020. Giulio Stefanini, Robert Byrne and Paul Piscoi discuss how new regulation is needed “to reflect the changes in the field over the last decades” and outline what this will mean for the safety of...

Struggling to keep up with the mass of scientific information in interventional cardiology? On this page you will find a selection of recent articles published in major journals in the field - use it to guide your reading!

This is the case of an 84-year-old woman in good general condition, with severe AVS on medical management, chronic atrial fibrillation and admitted with heart failure and chest pain...

Risk and aspirin, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes: read this article written by J.W. McEvoy and D. Mylotte

The results of the SCOPE I trial were presented at TCT 2019 in San Francisco by Jonas Lanz, Bern University Hospital. Read the analysis by Fabien Praz.

View reviews of a selection of major Late-breaking Clinical Trials in Interventional Cardiology released at the 2019 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Scientific Sessions. Check out the list here!

Gain access here to all of the abstracts selected for oral or e-Poster presentation at recent editions of the Course. Use the top right free search or adjacent filter option to select according to topic of interest, author name or abstract title.

How effective are risk scores at stratifying patients into different surgical risk groups before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)? How do the rates of mortality, stroke and paravalvular leak after TAVI using the Portico TAVI System compare between patients assigned different risk scores? Join Lars Søndergaard...

Join Nicolas Dumonteil as he looks at some of the factors that can help optimise the safety and efficiency of modern transfemoral TAVI procedures. Discover what considerations need to be taken into account when choosing a TAVI device.

What is the best way to minimise the risk...

Join Hélène Eltchaninoff and Hendrik Treede as they talk to Bernard Prendergast about the impact of the latest evidence from the field of TAVI on everyday clinical practice. 2019 has been a landmark year for valve disease, with the results of the PARTNER 3 trial and...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between volume of TAVR procedures and 30-day outcomes, to determine the persistence of a volume–outcome association...

In this short video Guiseppe Tarantini (Italy) summarises some of the challenges associated with repeat coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). What is the prevalence of coronary artery disease in patients who have undergone TAVI? What proportion of patients...

Consult this session to discover a selection of challenging cases (migrated DES, repeated unstable angina and TAVI without pre-BAV), and learn more about the perspectives of optical frequency domain imaging and IVUS.

Consult this session to learn how the most common complications of TAVI happen (annular rupture, coronary occlusion, severe aortic regurgitation...), how to manage them and how to prevent them.

Watch this LIVE demonstration from Clinique Pasteur (France) to learn about the case of a 81 years-old male patient with dyslipidemia referred to the hospital because of NYHA II shortness of breath related to a severe aortic stenosis. CT scan revealed a type I L-R bicuspid...

Consult this session to gain an update on physiology assessment options, learn more about how to correctly perform, interpret and implement physiology based assessments, and discover all about the future perspectives in this field.

Consult this session to discover challenging TAVR and other structural interventions cases, such as a cardiac catheter retrieval during a posterior descending artery closure in a 3-year-old baby, a post-TAVR cardiovascular collapse, and more!

What are the evolving indications for transcatheter aortic valve implementation (TAVI) in severe aortic valve stenosis? Stephan Windecker discusses a PCR statement with William Wijns that suggests a “shift in paradigm” in terms of treating patients with this condition. Learn more about the evidence from randomised...

Martine Gilard (France), Philip MacCarthy (UK) and Michael Lee (Hong Kong) discuss what’s new at EuroPCR 2019 to meet the demands of a rapidly expanding population: simplifying the technique and minimising the risk to the patient, acknowledging the huge expansion of mitral edge-to-edge repair and the...

Systematic imaging has shown silent injury to the brain in the vast majority of TAVI patients. Jean-Philippe Collet (France) asks Alexandra Lansky (USA and UK) about the incidence, risk factors and protection in periprocedural stroke. From explaining the mechanical causes and the rates of clinical and...