Potential Advantages of Achieving Commissural Alignment

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).

Dr. Francesco Bedogni is the Director of the Clinical Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit at Policlinico San Donato Research Hospital. During his professional career he has managed or supervised more than 100.000 invasive cardiology procedures, 10.000 coronary angiographies, 500 peripheral angioplasties, 150 carotid stenting, 1.250 TAVR, 235 Mitraclip and 85 LAAO procedures. He has published over 250 scientific papers or abstracts. He is a European Proctor and KOL for several therapies for Medtronic, Abbott, Boston Scientific and Meril. He is also a consultant for these techniques in many Italian and foreign hospitals.

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).

Prof. Dr. Ole De Backer is an internationally renowned interventional cardiologist working at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark and is an expert in structural heart interventions (among others transcatheter heart interventions, percutaneous left atrial appendage closure and thoracic endovascular aortic repair). He is actively involved and leading several research projects in the field of transcatheter heart valves and percutaneous left atrial appendage closure.