Live sessions with Prof. Alain Cribier: Minimalist TF-TAVI Workshop

More than 20 years after the First-in-Man TAVI performed by our team in Rouen on April 2002, the procedure is incredibly expanding. Significant technological advances, simplified strategies and scientific evidences led to an explosion of TAVI with about 1 500 000 cases performed to date in the world. 

Since 2002, in Rouen, transfemoral TAVI has been performed in 100% of cases using a simplified approach under local anaesthesia. Over the last 12 years, this strategy has reached its peak with the “minimalist approach” (local anaesthesia, no TEE percutaneous closure devices and early patient discharge home) that our team has been pioneering. Despite strong initial reluctance, this technique is now adopted everywhere and can be performed in > 90% of all TAVI cases. To be carried out safely and with optimal results, many tips and tricks must be learned. This is the goal of our workshops based on lectures and video-transmission of live cases from several centres using the minimalist strategy with different types of TAVI valves.

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

Thursday, May 11th

Rouen Department of Cardiology

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Lecture: TAVI: From the trans-septal approach to the trans-femoral minimalist approach (A. Cribier)

09:45 Live Case 1 from Rouen (SAPIEN-3) - Rouen team

10:30 Live-in-the-box case from Clermont Ferrand (EVOLUT) - G. Souteyrand

11:00 Lecture: Medtronic EVOLUT - G. Souteyrand

11:15 Live Case 2 from Clermont Ferrand (EVOLUT) - G. Souteyrand & N. Combaret

12:00 Live Case 3 from Rouen (SAPIEN 3) - Rouen team

12:30 Lecture: How to prepare the coronary arteries patency after TAVI - M. Gilard

13:00 lunch break

14:00 Live Case 4 from Buenos Aires (MYVAL) - C. Agiatello

14:40 Live-in-the-box case from Buenos Aires (MYVAL) - C. Agiatello

15:00 Lecture: TAVI: Complications and complex cases - H. Eltchaninoff

16:00 Live Case 5 from Atlanta - V. Babaliaros

16:40 Lecture: The issues of Valve-in-Valve implantation - V. Babaliaros

17:00 end of session

Friday, May 12th Rouen Department of Cardiology

09:30 Live Case 6 from Riyadh (SAPIEN-3) - A. Almogharari, H. Al-Amri

10:15 Lecture: MYVAL Science and clinical updates

10:45 Live Case 7 from Rouen (SAPIEN 3) - Rouen team

11:30 Lecture: Ability of CT to address all relevant aspects of TAVI - J.N. Dacher

12:00 Live-in-the-box Didactic on TF-TAVI - H. Eltchaninoff

12:30 Live Case 8 from Rouen, Fran (SAPIEN 3) - Rouen team

13:00 lunch break

14:00 Live Case 9 from Curitibia, Brazil