13th International Workshop on Transfemoral TAVI - live viewing

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 21st) 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.

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

Interventional cardiologists already trained on TAVI

Interventional cardiologists already trained on TAVI

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