Optimising Outcomes for the TAVI Patient: Key Considerations for First Valve Choice and Implantation Techniques

Published: 11 April 2022

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Overview

In this symposium, part of Transcatheter Interventions Online 2022, we review latest data showing why durability and hemodynamics matter for initial valve selection and discuss the latest techniques to help achieve optimal outcomes for patients with longer life expectancy.

 

Join this expert faculty for a combination of highly informative technical presentations and patient case studies.

This symposium has been supported by an unrestricted educational grant by Medtronic.

Key Learning Objectives

  • Recall the latest data showing why durability and hemodynamics matter for initial valve selection.
  • Discuss the latest techniques to help achieve optimal outcomes for patients with longer life expectancy.

Target Audience

  • Interventional Cardiologists
  • Surgeons with an interest in transcatheter treatment strategies for coronary and structural heart disease
  • Interventional Cardiology Nurses

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Part 1

Considerations for First Valve Choice

In this first chapter, Prof Ran Kornowski drives us through the reason why the choice of the first valve is important, and what physicians look for when planning and preparing a TAVI procedure. Prof Kornowski will review the short-term and long term considerations.
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Part 2

Optimised Approaches for First Valve Choice

In this chapter Prof Lars Søndergaard looks at the procedural steps to optimise the outcome for TAVI patients, and how physicians refine the steps based on longer lifetime expectancy.
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Part 3

Tips and Tricks for Achieving Procedure Efficiencies

In the final chapter of the symposium, Dr Douglas Fraser dives into the tips and tricks relating to his own experience. Dr Fraser then discusses contemporary techniques to optimise outcomes for patients.
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Faculty Biographies

Douglas G Fraser

Douglas G Fraser

Dr Douglas Fraser trained preclinical in Oxford and clinical in Cambridge, qualifying in 1991. House jobs in Addenbrooke’s, SHO and registrar training in the West Midlands including QE Birmingham, Walsgrave Coventry, North Staffordshire. One year fellowship in Amsterdam.

Recognised as expert in radial angioplasty. Active publication record in interventional cardiology

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