29
Jan
2015
00:00
GMT
Webinar
Imaging Structural Interventions: An Illustrative TAVI Case
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Overview
This webinar mainly focusses on imaging for structural interventions, contemporary best practice, and areas that require further development in the future and the rationale behind this. Participants attending this webinar will:
- Update their scientific knowledge
- Improve their clinical practice
Topics covered include:
- Introduction and general concepts
- Why is imaging crucial for structural interventions
- Heart team: the imaging specialist should be part of it!
- What is "advanced" imaging?
- Case report: TAVI
- Discussion about the role of imaging
- To make a diagnosis
- To provide important information for Heart Team decisions
- To monitor the procedure
- To assess the final result after the procedure
- In the follow-up of the patient
- Take-home messages and advertisement of the 6th ACIC, London
Faculty:
Didier Locca
Pierre Monney
Educational Objectives
- Illustrate the role of non-invasive imaging in intervention: from diagnosis to final assessment after implantation
- Define the concept and the utility of "advanced" imaging
- Discuss the pro/con of TEE monitoring during the TAVI procedure
Faculty Biographies
Didier Locca
Dr Didier Locca is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Lausanne University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr Locca's clinical interests include interventional cardiology, TAVI, Cardiac MRI and stem cell therapy.
Dr Locca is an editorial board member of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3).