BCIS ACI 2020: TAVI Should Now Be the Default Treatment for Patients with Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis
In this video series chairs, Prof Simon Redwood (Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK) and Dr Clare Appleby (Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK) ask the question “Should TAVI be the default treatment for patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis?". From BCIS ACI’s audience and introducing the panel of the debate. Further through the series Prof David Hildick-Smith (Sussex Cardiac Centre, Brighton, UK) argues for an interventional approach whilst Prof Marjan Jahangiri (St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK) argues that surgery, SAVR should be considered based on life expectancy in the treatment of patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis. The series concludes with the panel and chairs reflecting on the data and recent arguments delivered.
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Part 1
Introduction and preliminary poll
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Part 2
Pro Argument
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Part 3
Contra Argument
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Part 4
Panel Discussion
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Faculty Biographies
Clare Appleby
Dr Clare Appleby is an interventional cardiologist at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK. Trained in Wythenshawe and Blackpool, UK, Dr Appleby was awarded a BCIS Interventional Fellowship in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include gene therapy for atherosclerosis and PCI outcomes. Dr Appleby has served as PI for several multi-centre PCI and TAVI trials. She has served as Honorary Secretary of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society.
Simon Redwood
Senior Lecturer and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Simon Redwood is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He is also Lead Clinician for Research and Development within the Directorate and a Council Member of the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society (BCIS).
Gregg Stone
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy, and Director of Academic Affairs
Dr Stone is a leading expert in interventional cardiology and is one of the most widely cited researchers in science. He has served as the principal investigator for approximately 130 national and international multicentre randomised trials, has delivered thousands of lectures internationally, and has authored more than 2,500 book chapters, manuscripts and abstracts published in peer-reviewed literature.
Dr Stone is the Director of Academic Affairs for Mount Sinai Heart Health System, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy at The Zena and Michael A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, at Mount Sinai, New York.
Dr Gregg Stone is an editorial board member of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3).
Andrew SP Sharp
Professor of Cardiology
Andrew Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998 and subsequently pursued an MD postgraduate research degree at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research focused on the hypertensive heart, establishing a foundation for his ongoing clinical and academic interest in hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Clinical Training & Early Career
Dr Sharp completed his early clinical training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before moving to London for senior clinical training at the hospitals of Imperial College London. He then undertook the prestigious Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programme, which included a year in Milan at San Raffaele and Columbus Hospitals, where he trained under leading experts in interventional cardiology. This combination of UK and international training shaped his expertise in complex coronary interventions and device-based therapies.
Career Progression
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Rob Butler
Dr Butler was appointed in 2003, he works in a major regional cardiac centre in Stoke-On-Trent, where the catchment for tertiary cardiology is nearly 2 million people across Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire.
A substantial amount of his workload is treating angina and heart attack patients.
Marjan Jahangiri
Marjan Jahangiri, FRCS, is professor of cardiac surgery at St George's Hospital, University of London. She was the first woman in Europe to be appointed as a professor of cardiac surgery.
Dr Marjan Jahangiri is on the Editorial Board of European Cardiology Review.