Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is your second favorite topic, after acute MI and before CTO. Discover here a selection of the most important cases and lectures presented during the last EuroPCR.
A way to compare the two current devices : a Corevalve in Rotterdam and a Sapien-Edwards in Toulouse
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (49 min.)
Speaker: P. De Jaegere , P.W. Serruys
First step is anatomic knowledge: what should we know?
What we should know about the anatomy of the aortic valve (15 min.)
Speaker: A. Cook
A "rebirth" of balloon aortic valvuloplasty as a bridge to TAVI …or to other therapeutic options
Aortic balloon valvuloplasty as a bridge to TAVI (4 min.)
Speaker: G.P Ussia
How to build a TAVI program?
How to organise a transcatheter aortic valve implantation programme
Speaker: H. Eltchaninoff
The patient selection: is it so easy?
Patient selection for percutaneous aortic valve implantation
Speaker: H. Londero
Revisiting the prognosis of patients with aortic stenosis
Speaker: A. Vahanian
How to optimise training programs?
What are the latest initiatives towards resolving these outstanding issues
Speaker: A. Vahanian
How to shorten the learning curve
Speaker: J. Webb
Role of hybrid suite?
Hybrid suite for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Speaker: G. Schuler
Imaging before & during TAVI: role of different modalities
Strategy of imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Speaker: M. Tuzcu
Strategy of imaging during transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Speaker: E. Brochet
Echocardiography
Speaker: M. Monaghan
TAVI can only be performed with transthoracic and/or transesophageal echography
Speaker: M. Monaghan
Coherence tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
Speaker: G. Schuler
The Corevalve results
Results of transfemoral aortic valve implantation
Speaker: P.W. Serruys
18-month single centre experience with the CoreValve prosthesis in 157 patients: procedural complications, valve-related events and survival
Speaker: S. Bleiziffer
12-month safety and performance results of transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the 18F CoreValve revalving prosthesis
Speaker: L. Buellesfeld
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement via left subclavian artery access
Speaker: J. Oreglia
The Sapien-Edwards results
Implemented procedural changes to enhance stabilisation during transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Speaker: M. Fusari
Experience with 200 patients after transcatheter aortic valve implantation - when should the transapical approach be chosen?
Speaker: H. Ruge
Prospective multicentric European registry of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (Partner EU study): six-month clinical outcome
Speaker: V. Schaechinger
Transapical aortic valve implantation
Speaker: N. Masson
New comers
30-day and 6-month outcomes from IP003: the direct flow medical percutaneous aortic valve trial for the treatment of patients with aortic stenosis
Speaker: J. Schofer
Valve design is critical to sustain durable performance
Speaker: R. Klautz
Specific complications: aortic annulus dissection, acute regurgitation, valve displacement, left main occlusion, vascular complications...
Complicated transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Speaker: R. Hödl
Severe aortic regurgitation after TAVI - etiology and treatment
Speaker: J. Kefer
Technical challenges in percutaneous aortic valve replacement: importance of the correct patient selection
Speaker: P. Vermeersch
Aortic annulus dissection
Speaker: T. Bartel
Access site complication
Speaker: M. Haude
Acute valve displacement during transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Speaker: J. Newton
First-in-man case report of the use of an Edwards-sapien valve to treat a regurgitant CoreValve aortic valve prosthesis
Speaker: A. Colombo
Percutaneous aortic valve implantation, be carefull with the left main!
Speaker: T. Lefèvre
Difficult anatomies
How to position CoreValve prosthesis in asymetric aortic root morphology?
Speaker: J. Bosmans
Horizontal aorta: contra indication?
Speaker: G. Manoharan

