Transcatheter Percutaneous Aortic Valve Therapy

Introduction.- History of treatment of valve disease.- Epidemiology of aortic valve disease: Prevalence in the general population. The burden of AS in the elderly population.- Pathology of aortic valve stenosis.- Physiopathology of aortic stenosis and natural history of the disease.- Hemodynamic assessment.- Current treatment of aortic valve disease: euroheart survey.- Imaging of aortic valve stenosis.- Surgical aortic valve replacement.- Aortic balloon valvuloplasty.- The development of transcatheter valve implantation.- Percutaneous aortic valve implantation: Edwards. Corevalve. Direct Flow. Sadra.- Transapical implantation.- Patient selection for transcatheter valve implantation.- Managing complications of transcatheter valve implantations.- New technologies for TAVI.- Engineering challenges for transcatheter valves.- Health technology assessment for TAVI.- Learning the techniques.- Preclinical and clinical pathways for percutaneous aortic valve replacement