13th International Workshop on Transfemoral TAVI

Since the First-in-Man case performed by our group in Rouen on April 16th 2002, TAVI has known an amazing expansion with, 21 years later, 2 000 000 cases having been performed worldwide in more than 80 countries. This success results from constant technological advances making the procedures simpler and safer and from an outstanding scientific evaluation.

Retrograde transfemoral TAVI has become the default strategy, feasible in 95% of cases. This strategy has reached its peak with the “minimalist approach” (local anesthesia, no TEE, percutaneous closure devices and early patient discharge home) that our team has been pioneering since 2012. Despite strong initial reluctance, this technique is now adopted everywhere.

This 13th edition of the workshop will be done in a hybrid way with the presence of cardiologists at the Rouen Medical Training Center and others online. Live cases with various models of TAVI systems will be transmitted from our Department of Cardiology in Rouen, and from other institutions in France Argentina, Brazil, United States, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Spain or Slovenia. Several lectures will be covering the topics of patient’s selection and management, CT scan screening, tips and tricks for the transfemoral minimalist approach, difficult cases, valve-in valve procedures, treatment of complications and overviews of TAVI valve technologies and updated results.

The goal of our practical course is to help you discover the latest technological advances in TAVI and to learn the many tips and tricks associated with a safe and successful transfemoral TAVI procedure. The first day of the workshop (November 22nd) will only be dedicated to a learning on simulators and therefore reserved for the cardiologists on-site. This will address patient selection (MSCT simulators) and procedural simulation with most currently used TAVI systems.

Register for the online session here

Preferentially but not limited to interventional cardiologists already trained on TAVI, wishing to get additional information on the « minimalist TF approach », based on the observation of live cases

Wednesday, November 22nd

09:30 Welcome

09:45 TAVI: From the trans-septal approach to the trans-femoral minimalist approach - A. Cribier

10:15 Live Case 1 from Rouen (SAPIEN-3) - Rouen team

10:45 Live Case 2 from Lisbon, Portugal (MYVAL) - L. Patricio

11:15 Live-in-the-box case from Toulouse (EVOLUT) - N. Dumonteil

11:45 Lecture on Medtronic EVOLUT - N. Dumonteil

12:15 Live Case 3 from Toulouse (EVOLUT) - N. Dumonteil, D. Tchétché

12:45 lunch break

14:00 Live-in-the-box Didactic on TF-TAVI (SAPIEN-3)- H. Eltchaninoff

14:30 Live-in-the-box from Curitiba (V-inV in homograft - EVOLUT Pro) - D. Nercolini

15:00 Live-in-the-box case from Curitiba (ACCURATE Neo 2) - D. Nercolini

15:30 Live Case 4 from Atlanta (SAPIEN 3) - V. Babaliaros

16:00 The issues of Valve-in-Valve implantation - V. Babaliaros

16:30 Live Case 5 from Rouen (SAPIEN-3) - Rouen team

17:00 The lessons from French Registries - M. Gilard

17:30 end of session

Thursday, November 23rd

Rouen Medical Training Center

09:30 Ability of CT to address all relevant aspects of TAVI - J.N. Dacher

10:00 Live Case 6 from Rouen (EVOLUT) - Rouen team

10:30 How to preserve the coronary arteries patency after TAVI - M. Gilard

11:00 Live Case 7 from Cape Town, South Africa (MYVAL) - S. Pandie

11:30 Live Case 8 from Rouen (SAPIEN 3) - Rouen Team

12:00 Live Case 9 from Wroclaw, Poland (MYVAL) - M. Protasiewicz

12:30 lunch break

14:00 Live Case 10 from Buenos Aires, Argentina (NAVITOR) - C. Agiatello

14:30 Live-in-the-box case from Buenos Aires (MYVAL) - C. Agiatello

15:00 TAVI complications and complex cases - H. Eltchaninoff

15:45 Live Case 11 from Buenos Aires, Argentina (MYVAL) - O. Mendiz

16:15 Live Case 12 from Rouen (SAPIEN 3) - Rouen team

16:45 End of session

Friday, November 24th

Rouen Medical Training Center

9:30 -10:45 & 10:45 - 12:00 - 2 groups in alternance

• GROUP 1 Learning CT Scan Screening on simulators J.N. Dacher
• GROUP 2 Presentation of new TAVI systems

12:00 lunch break

13:00 Procedural simulators and Proglide simulators

Room Arromanche and Cardiac Catheterization Lab

15:00 General conclusions and closing