The Structural Heart

and Valve Center:

Roles of CV Team

ProfessionalsSTRATIS PATTAKOS, MD

DIRECTOR, CARDIAC SURGERY

CO-DIRECTOR, DEPT OF TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVES

HYGEIA HOSPITAL

Maisano (Surgeon) Teaching Mitraclipfor Tricuspid

Heart Team Meetings

Maisano Teaches Trans-Septal

Reardon (surgeon), Chief Investigator For

Medtronic and Boston Scientific

Bapat (surgeon) Develops

Valve-in-Valve App

Holzamer (surgeon)

Proctor for our Boston Sci

Acurate TAVI Cases

ACC

Transcatheter

Valve Handbook

TAVI is Based on a Surgical Risk Score

TAVR RISK CALCULATOR

Heart

Team

Cutters and Catheters

Hybrid O.R.

Hygeia Hospital

The REAL Title of This Lecture

Do You Really Need A

Surgeon for TAVI?

Other Job Titles You Also

Don’t Need

Interventional Cardiologist

Echocardiographer

Heart Failure Cardiologist

Anesthesiologist

Radiologist

Radiology / Hybrid Suite

Technician

Nurse

I Don’t Care for Titles

I Care For SKILLS

What Skills Are Needed For

THV Procedures?

Hard to Find ONE Person

With All Those Skills

TransAortic TAVI (J-sternotomy)

Sometimes TAVR Doesn’t

Go As Planned

Sometimes TAVR Doesn’t Go

As Planned

Sometimes TAVR Doesn’t

Go As Planned

Sometimes TAVR Doesn’t

Go As Planned

…and you want to be able to

phone a friend

…or just see a different

viewpoint

Differing Vantage Points

The Classic Guidelines Slide

CTS and IC on the Heart Team