Live Case - Transfemoral TAVI

Professor Helge Möllmann is the Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine (Cardiology) at St. Johannes Hospital - Dortmund, Germany. He has authored over 520 publications and is a member of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK), Interventional Cardiology Working Group of the DGK, Nucleus member European Society of Cardiology (ESC), German Mitral Valve Steering Committee and German Aortic Valve Executive Board.

Dr. Kristoff Cornelis is interventional cardiologist at AZ Maria Middelares – Ghent, Belgium. He is an interventional cardiologist specialized in endovascular treatments of valve problems, hypertension and congenital heart defects in adults. He is also a member of the Belgian Work Group of Interventional Cardiology (BWGIC), of the Belgian Society of Cardiology (BSC) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

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.

Professor Rajesh Kharbanda is a Consultant Cardiologist Oxford University Hospitals, UK with over 20 years of experience in treating patients with a wide range of heart conditions including angina, valve disease, heart failure and irregular heart rhythm. He has special expertise in the treatment of coronary artery disease by coronary angioplasty and stenting including complex angioplasty techniques as well as Structural Heart interventions. He has published and co-authored over 240 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and actively involved in international trials evaluating various coronary and transcatheter valve technologies.

Dr Vedat Tiyerili is the senior physician in charge, specialist in internal medicine, cardiology and angiology at St.-Johannes-Hospital Dortmund. His expertise lies in Intensive and emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and heart failure.