Atrioventricular (AV) Valves Summit 2024

Published: 24 October 2024

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Overview

In this series of short interviews filmed at AV Valves Summit 2024, leading experts offer valuable insights and professional opinions on transcatheter mitral and tricuspid interventions. 

The sessions explore a wide array of topics, including advancements in TEER techniques, the evolving focus on patient quality of life, the ongoing debate between repair versus replacement, and the most effective strategies for shaping the future of mitral and tricuspid regurgitation treatment.

This programme is independently supported by Abbott.

Learning Objectives

  • Evaluate the latest clinical data and technological advancements in mitral and tricuspid valve interventions
  • Differentiate between repair and replacement strategies, understanding their respective benefits, challenges and patient selection criteria
  • Identify how advancements in transcatheter interventions impact quality of life and clinical outcomes in heart failure and valve disease patients
  • Develop strategies for selecting suitable candidates for valve interventions based on heart failure and valve disease status
  • Examine emerging trends and future directions in treating mitral and tricuspid regurgitation

Target Audience

  • Interventional Cardiologist
  • Echocardiographer
  • Heart Failure Specialist
  • Cardiac Surgeon

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Faculty Biographies

Marco Metra

Marco Metra

Professor

Marco Metra is Full Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Institute of Cardiology of the Civil Hospital and University of Brescia, Italy, and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Heart Failure and Senior Consulting Editor of the European Heart Journal.

Prof Metra has been principal investigator and member of the Executive or Steering Committees of many trials in patients with heart failure. His research is focused on heart failure with, as main areas of interest, β-blocker therapy and, more recently, the assessment and treatment of the patients with acute heart failure.

He has co-chaired with Prof. Teerlink, San Francisco, CA, the phase IIB Pre-RELAX-AHF and the phase III RELAX-AHF randomized placebo controlled trials in patients with acute heart failure and is chairing the current RELAX-AHF-2 trial, which has as primary end-points the effects of serelaxin on the 180-days mortality and on in-hospital worsening heart…

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Victoria Delgado

Victoria Delgado

Cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Cardiology

Dr Victoria Delgado is a board certified cardiologist with specific expertise in multimodality imaging, Assistant professor of Cardiology at the Leiden University Medical Center. For the past 13 years, she has been actively performing research in the field of cardiac mechanics and underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of heart failure in various cardiac diseases, particularly in valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease.

Victoria has been board member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (councillor and chair of scientific documents), task force member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines, member of the ESC Guidelines committee and Congress Programme Committee and currently ESC board member. Furthermore, she is an associate editor of Circulation and Journal of American Society of Echocardiography.

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Nicole Karam

Nicole Karam

Prof Nicole Karam is an associate professor in the Department of Cardiology at the European Hospital Georges Pompidou. She specializes in interventional cardiology and performs both coronary and valvular percutaneous surgeries, as well as research in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.

After starting her medical studies at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, she moved to Paris in 2010 and specialized in Interventional Cardiology. Subsequently, she trained in a highly specialized center for valvular heart disease in Munich, Germany, where she learned new techniques in percutaneous valvular interventions that she later brought back to Georges Pompidou Hospital.

Prof Karam is an active member and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, and a member of the steering committee of the Women’s European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions. 

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Marcel Weber

Marcel Weber

University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, Germany

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Makoto Amaki

Makoto Amaki

Dr Makoto Amaki is the Chief Physician in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Heart Failure at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, JP.

His clinical expertise includes heart failure management and advanced interventional procedures, with a particular focus on MitraClip therapies.

Dr Amaki is a Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and an active member of the Japanese Circulation Society, among other professional bodies. He was the first physician in Japan to perform the MitraClip procedure and serves on the Global MitraClip Complexity Advisory Board.

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Kate Gatenby

Kate Gatenby

Consultant Cardiologist

Dr Kate Gatenby is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Leeds General Infirmary (Leeds, UK) subspecialising in heart failure, echocardiography and obstetric cardiology. She has a particular interest in managing patients with combined valvular heart disease and heart failure, the integrated management of heart failure across primary and secondary care, identification and management of patients with advanced heart failure. 

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