Preserving Coronary Access: Impact on Device Selection

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).

Dr. Marco Barbanti is an interventional cardiologist at the Cardiac-Thoracic-Vascular Department and Transplant, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria “Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele” in Catania and a research associate at the University of Catania. He has authored over 200 publications in the field of transcatheter aortic and mitral valve interventions in all first-tier cardiology journals. Dr. Barbanti is member of the Executive working group of the Italian OBSERVANT 1 and OBSERVANT 2 studies, and the principal investigator of several multicenter international studies and collaborations, including the RE-ACCESS study.

Prof. Thierry Lefèvre is Head of the Interventional Cardiology Department and Head of Research at the Cardiovascular Institute Paris-Sud (ICPS), Massy (France), France. His expertise include Interventional Cardiology and Valvular Heart Disease. He has a major interest in clinical research, having published over 726 scientific publications, and is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and a Fellow of the Society for Angiography and Interventions.