Recorded Case Presentation: Protected and Efficient TAVI with ACURATE neo2

Dr Fadi J. Sawaya is the Director of the Structural Heart Program at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC). His expertise and clinical interest lies in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), mitral clip, left atrium appendage occlusion, paravalvular leak closure, atrial septal defects/patent foramen ovale closures and chronic total occlusion interventions. Dr Sawaya is also Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC).

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. Radoslaw Parma is an interventional cardiologist at Medical University of Silesia – Katowice, Poland. He is member of the European Commission expert panels in the field of medical devices and also co-chair of the EAPCI Training Committee at European Society of Cardiology.

Dr. Raúl Moreno is an interventional cardiologist and Director of Interventional Cardiology at Hospital La Paz – Madrid, Spain. He has authored more than 300 articles on interventional cardiology and, with respect to this topic, he also have taken part into a large number of multi-centered studies. He is President of Asociación de Cardiología Intervencionista (ACI-SEC).