Increasing Efficiency in Daily Practice: The LEAN TAVI Concept

Professor Giuseppe Tarantini is an Associate Professor and interventional cardiologist at University of Padua, Italy. Since 2016, he Director of the Interventional Cardiology Unit at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences of Padua University, performing both coronary and structural interventional cardiology procedures. He has promoted more than 50 observational registries and clinical trials and published more than 390 original papers. He is also President of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology–GISE and a member of the leading International Cardiology societies.

Nicolas Van Mieghem is the Clinical Director of Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Interventional Cardiology at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. He obtained his medical degree and cardiology degree at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. After subsequent Fellowships in interventional cardiology in at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, United States and Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he joined the senior staff of the department of interventional cardiology in the Thoraxcenter in February 2010. Professor Van Mieghem’s academic interest is in complex (calcified) coronary lesions, mechanical circulatory support and structural heart interventions. He obtained a PhD based upon his research in transcatheter valve therapies. Professor Van Mieghem is involved in the percutaneous coronary interventions and structural heart program. Professor Van Mieghem has published and co-authored over 400 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is principle investigator and steering committee member in multiple ongoing international trials evaluating various coronary and transcatheter valve technologies. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Stefan Toggweiler is the co-head of Cardiology, head of Interventional Cardiology and of Interventional Valve Therapy at Heart Center Lucerne, Luzerner Kantonsspital. He has performed more than 1000 TAVI and 250 mitral procedures. Dr. Toggweiler has published on safety and efficacy of TAVI, conduction disorders, pacemakers, vascular complications, and mitral/tricuspid valve disease in well renowned journals.