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TAVI today and tomorrow: international trends and future direction
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session focuses on the evolving landscape of TAVI, emphasising lifetime management strategies with a focus on the first valve implanted. It provides a comprehensive discussion on representative patient profiles, current guidelines from various countries, and future outlooks, alongside recent long-term clinical results for the balloon-expandable...
Built to last: lifetime management for durability and beyond
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session addresses the principles of lifetime management aimed at durability and optimal long-term outcomes in complex valvular heart disease cases. Key topics include the critical importance of initial valve choice, practical tips for optimizing paravalvular leak (PVL) management, and advanced strategies for redo transcatheter aortic...
Protect the brain for TAVI - True potential of SENTINEL Cerebral Protection System
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session highlights the critical role of cerebral protection during TAVI procedures by focusing on the SENTINEL Cerebral Protection System. It reviews trends in the United States and Japan, presents clinical outcomes one year post-introduction in Japan, and examines key clinical trials through a meta-analysis comparing...
Patient-tailored treatment for bicuspid valve
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Delve into patient-tailored treatment strategies for bicuspid aortic valve stenosis, focusing on evidence-based valve selection and sizing for TAVI candidates. This session reviews current device options, procedural planning considerations, and case studies illustrating the use of balloon-expanding and self-expanding valves, emphasizing challenges posed by unfavourable bicuspid...
Mitral and aortic transcatheter valve-in-valve intervention - LIVE case
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
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An 83-year-old male with AF, CKD (stage 3A), preserved LV function, and a history of AVR (27 mm Magna Ease) and MVR (33 mm Magna) in 2014 presented with symptomatic stenosis of the mitral bioprosthesis. A Sapien 3 valve was implanted in the Magna mitral...
Late-breaking trials of PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session presents pivotal late-breaking trials from PCR Tokyo Valves 2026, offering one-year outcomes and real-world experiences in transcatheter valve therapies. Highlights include the AltaValve early feasibility study on atrial fixation TMVR, invasive registry insights on prosthesis-patient mismatch post-TAVR, and registry data on tricuspid and mitral...
Hot topics and evidence on structural interventions in 2025 and 2026
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Delve into the emerging clinical evidence and key hot topics shaping transcatheter interventions for aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve diseases anticipated to influence clinical practice in 2025 and 2026. This session reviews stroke prevention, valve interventions across the three valves, and integrates recent and upcoming data...
Prevention and management of TAVI complications
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session addresses the prevention and management of major complications associated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Attendees will gain a detailed understanding of mechanisms behind cerebral infarction, haemolysis, valve infolding, pacemaker implantation, and valve migration, along with expert strategies for recognition, decision-making, and bailout techniques...
Procedural optimisation for enhanced acute and long-term outcomes
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session emphasizes procedural optimization in TAVI to enhance both acute and long-term outcomes. It highlights critical factors such as valve sizing, expansion, implantation depth, and commissural alignment. Practical techniques for pre- and post-dilatation alongside commissural alignment are demonstrated through real cath lab cases, underscoring their...
TAVI: new evidence and clinical trials
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session reviews the latest evidence from head-to-head clinical trials comparing contemporary TAVI devices, including detailed discussions of the LANDMARK and COMPARE trials. It also highlights ongoing and upcoming clinical trials poised to influence guideline recommendations and expand the therapeutic scope of TAVI, providing crucial insights...
Team approach to structural heart disease: how to handle unexpected situations
14 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session highlights the multidisciplinary team approach to managing structural heart disease, focusing on responses to unexpected intraoperative and postoperative situations. It features real-world experiences from a TAVI radiologic technologist, clinical engineer, TEER sonographer, and TEER nurse, emphasizing their respective roles in addressing intraoperative events, sudden...
Design that delivers the future of TAVI
13 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session presents the future of TAVI valve design, emphasizing supra-annular valve benefits, strategies for managing concomitant coronary artery disease, and redo-TAVI approaches tailored for long-term patient management.
Mastering techniques from basic to complex - TAVI basics
13 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
This session offers a comprehensive overview of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) fundamentals, focusing on CT scan analysis for optimal patient and valve selection, strategies to avoid procedural complications, and approaches to streamline TAVI procedures for improved outcomes.
Mastering techniques from basic to complex - Avoidance and management of TAVI complications
13 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Address the challenges posed by complex TAVI complications through expert discussion on prevention, management, and bailout techniques. This session covers critical complications such as annulus rupture, stroke, conduction disturbances, and vascular events.
Mastering techniques from basic to complex - Advanced TAVI
13 Feb 2026 – From PCR Tokyo Valves 2026
Explore advanced TAVI topics including valve selection for small annuli, optimization strategies for bicuspid aortic valve interventions, and techniques ensuring safety and efficacy in valve-in-valve procedures.
How to close vascular access with a combined suture-/plug-based strategy using one ProStyle and one Angio-Seal in TAVI
29 Jan 2026
Large-bore femoral access closure remains a critical step in transfemoral TAVI, where access-site complications can significantly impact outcomes.
This My Toolkit article presents a step-by-step tutorial on a combined suture- and plug-based closure strategy using one ProStyle™ and one Angio-Seal®. The technique aims to achieve rapid, reliable...
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A challenging valve-in-valve scenario in a patient with prior aortic coarctation repair
02 Feb 2026
This case features a 79-year-old patient with severe aortic stenosis and a degenerated surgical bioprosthesis, who previously underwent complex aortic surgery for coarctation.
Redo surgery was high-risk, so a transcatheter valve-in-valve procedure was chosen.
Explore the case to see how anatomy, prosthesis sizing, and vascular access options guide...
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Overcoming complexity in TAVI: a patient-centered approach
12 Jan 2026
Discover how to overcome complexity in TAVI, in this replay featuring H. Möllmann and guests R. Hahn, W-K. Kim and P. Lauten.
Fractional flow reserve to guide revascularisation in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing TAVR
07 Jan 2026
The present analysis compared major adverse cardiac events in patients with significant coronary stenosis (FFR ≤ 0.80 or visual stenosis ≥ 90 %) versus those with non-significant stenosis (FFR > 0.80).
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How to manage Safari wire entrapment during TAVI with Navitor THV
19 Jan 2026
Safari wire entrapment during TAVI is a rare but potentially serious complication, particularly with sheathless self-expanding valves. In this My Toolkit article, we describe a simple, effective technique using a parallel stiff guidewire to safely retrieve both the catheter and the entrapped Safari wire when performing...
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