Day 2 Summary

A deputy director, dpt. of cardiac surgery at Heart Center Leipzig, Germany. Features in 7 videos on Wondr Medical. David Holzhey generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), Cardiac Valves, Aortic Valve Pathology, and Aortic Stenosis (AS).

Professor Lars Søndergaard is a consultant cardiologist at Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor of Cardiology at University of Copenhagen, he published over 300 peer reviewed articles, and more than 15 textbook chapters. His research interests are focused on adults with congenital heart diseases and catheter-based heart valve interventions, as well as congenital and structural heart diseases. He led the first-in-human transcatheter mitral valve implantation (CardiAQ) in 2012 and he actively participated to several trials, including NOTION (transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic stenosis and low surgical risk), and the REDUCE randomised trial (PFO vs anti-platelet therapy after cryptogenic stroke).