- Catheter laboratory skills
- General Cardiology
- Aortic Stenosis (AS)
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI/TAVR)
What is the future of TAVI? - Dr. Rasha Al-Lamee
Summary
Rasha Al-Lamee discusses the future of TAVI.
- Review of current guidelines and current evidence base
- Review of expanded indications for TAVI and the potential change in TAVI services - TAVI...
Summary
Rasha Al-Lamee discusses the future of TAVI.
- Review of current guidelines and current evidence base
- Review of expanded indications for TAVI and the potential change in TAVI services - TAVI may follow the PCI model
- The evolution of the TAVI procedure - initially 50% transapical, now 7-10%
- Reduction in proportion of cases performed under GA; now conscious sedation and LA
- Overall lower risk patients being offered TAVI now
- Contemporary data showing dramatically lower mortality rates in modern TAVI trials
- Next generation of TAVI devices
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Speakers
Rasha Al-Lamee
Speaker
Dr Rasha Al-Lamee is an Interventional Cardiology Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS... Dr Rasha Al-Lamee is an Interventional Cardiology Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, UK. Dr Al-Lamee’s research interests are complex coronary intervention, coronary physiology and invasive intravascular assessment. She designed, conducted and led the ORBITA trial and is the lead author of the primary publication in The Lancet. At Imperial College, she is actively involved in the development and recruitment for a number of multi-centre clinical trials. Dr Al- Lamee has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and has presented at international Cardiology conferences worldwide throughout her clinical career. She studied at the University of Oxford and University College London. She went onto complete her training as a junior doctor on the Barts and the London Medical rotation before being appointed as a Specialist Registrar on the North West London Cardiology rotation in 2006. Dr Al-Lamee has twelve years of Cardiology experience and completed three years of Interventional Fellowship training at Hammersmith Hospital in London. She also spent a year training as an Interventional Fellow under the supervision of Professor Antonio Colombo in Milan. She completed specialist training in Cardiology in 2013.
