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Early outcomes and predictors of success in LATAM TAVI experiences
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore early outcomes and predictors of success from Latin America's evolving experience with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). This session covers innovative approaches such as transfemoral access intravascular lithotripsy compared to angioplasty, conduction disturbances with self-expandable TAVI devices, and insights from regional centers treating severe aortic...
Out-of-the-box TAVI: when anatomy pushes innovation
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Witness innovative TAVI applications pushing procedural boundaries in challenging anatomical scenarios. This session reviews cases including bicuspid valves with septal aneurysm, non-calcific aortic regurgitation with complex aortas, decades-old valve treatments, and novel access strategies in severe peripheral artery disease.
Advanced TAVI: techniques, timing, and problem-solving
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Advance your knowledge in TAVI with this session addressing sophisticated techniques, procedural timing, and problem-solving in complex cases. Explore TAVI applications in rare quadricuspid valve anatomy with pure aortic insufficiency, strategic decision-making between TAVI and PCI, and innovative solutions for managing aortic stenosis in patients with...
Extreme TAVI: bicuspid valves, emergency TAVI, dissections and more
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore extreme and complex TAVI cases that push procedural limits, including urgent interventions, bicuspid valve sizing, valve-in-valve strategies, and rare complications such as type A dissection and late coronary occlusion. This session shares valuable clinical experiences and lessons from challenging scenarios.
Redo TAVI
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
This session focuses on the challenges and strategies of redo TAVI, from careful planning to valve selection and tailored procedural approaches. Learn how to manage different valve platforms, optimise outcomes in valve-in-valve scenarios, and prevent complications such as coronary obstruction through real case discussions.
Expanding horizons with balloon-expandable TAVI - LIVE Case
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
A 76-year-old male with a history of abdominal and iliac stent grafts (2022), severe COPD, prostate cancer, and gastric ulcer presented with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. CT and echocardiography showed a calcified bicuspid aortic valve with preserved LV function.
A 24.5 mm Myval valve was implanted without...
TAVI in challenging scenarios, diving into real-life cases
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Navigate the complexities of challenging TAVI cases through real-life clinical scenarios. This session offers valuable insights into managing complications such as aortic regurgitation, bicuspid valves, valve-in-valve procedures, coronary obstruction, and large annulus with left ventricular outflow tract calcification. Participants will gain practical tips and tricks to...
Integrating the newest valve guidelines into daily clinical reality
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Integrate the 2025 EACTS valve guidelines into your clinical practice with a focus on valvular heart disease management tailored to Latin American realities. This session reviews the most relevant updates on aortic stenosis management and transcatheter approaches for mitral and tricuspid valves.
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TAVI - Take the first step considering life time management
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Understand the critical importance of lifetime management in TAVI, emphasizing how the initial procedure impacts long-term results. This session discusses implantation depth, commissural alignment, and their roles beyond coronary access, illustrated through a low-risk young patient case and current durability data.
TAVI in complex anatomy: high stakes and tight spaces
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Address the high-stakes challenges of TAVI in complex anatomical scenarios. This session discusses high-risk valve-in-valve interventions, management of delayed coronary obstruction, procedures in small annuli, and innovative bailout strategies including carotid TAVI.
TAVI outcomes in special clinical settings: cancer, diabetes, and frailty
12 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Delve into the complexities of TAVI outcomes in special clinical populations including patients with cancer, diabetes, and frailty. This session reviews critical analyses and meta-analyses addressing ischemic cerebrovascular events post-TAVI, and compares mortality and post-procedural outcomes between diabetic and non-diabetic patients, providing valuable insights for personalized...
Valve-in-valve and coronary protection
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore complex valve-in-valve procedures and coronary protection strategies through a series of challenging case presentations. Topics include management of high-risk valve-in-valve scenarios, strategies for degenerated aortic bioprostheses, innovative transcarotid approaches, fenestration stenting for late coronary obstruction, and analysis of valve embolisation events, providing valuable insights for...
Tailored transfemoral TAVI in complex anatomies - LIVE Case
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Medtronic
An 89-year-old male with hypertension, dyslipidemia, current smoking, stage III kidney disease, and a history of diagonal PCI in 2010 presented with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis and a small annulus (410 mm²), with RBBB on ECG.
Via bilateral femoral access,...
Innovations in aortic valves
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Discover the latest innovations in aortic valve technology in this comprehensive session. Explore initial clinical experiences with new self-expandable valves in small annuli, mid-term durability data of novel prostheses, and cutting-edge developments such as silver nanoparticle-coated valves and vascular protection implantable systems, providing a forward-looking perspective...
TAVI and structural imaging
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
This session addresses the critical role of structural imaging in TAVI procedures. Gain valuable knowledge on multimodal imaging approaches in TAVI-in-TAVI cases, complex paravalvular leak management, and unique complications after surgical valve replacement. The session also includes case studies highlighting combined treatments and challenges in severe...
Aortic stenosis doesn't play alone: TAVI in multivalvular and coronary artery disease patients
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Managing aortic stenosis becomes even more challenging when it coexists with coronary artery disease (CAD) or multivalvular pathology. For patients with CAD, careful assessment of symptoms, lesion severity, and anatomy guides whether PCI is best performed before, during, or after TAVI, always with future coronary access...
Clinical puzzles in structural interventions
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Delve into complex clinical puzzles encountered in structural heart interventions. This session presents comparative outcomes in paradoxical low flow versus high gradient severe aortic stenosis post-TAVI, explores manual and automatic CT measurement techniques, evaluates valve-in-valve procedures within mechanical valves through meta-analysis, and discusses TAVI strategies in...
TAVI cases: the unexpected and the unseen
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Explore this session to uncover complex and unexpected challenges encountered during TAVI procedures. Cases include incidental findings such as aortic valve annulus pseudoaneurysm, double coronary artery perforation in severe aortic stenosis, and unique scenarios involving self-expanding valve implantation and transseptal access. Learn strategies for managing bioprosthesis...
Innovation session: new techniques and devices in Latin America
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Join this innovation-focused session highlighting new structural heart devices and techniques emerging from Latin America. Review real-world cases including mechanical valve re-intervention, TMVR, novel mitral TEER devices, and first clinical experiences with a new self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve in small annuli. Gain valuable procedural and clinical...
Management of hostile access for TAVI
11 Sep 2025 – From PCR Rio Valves 2025
Access challenges are among the most critical hurdles in TAVI procedures. This session explores how to identify difficult access routes using pre-procedural CT, and demonstrates practical techniques to safely overcome these obstacles. Through real-life case presentations—including challenging femoral access with a shockwave balloon, carotid access, and...
