TAVR Workshop
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is rapidly changing the management of patient’s with aortic valve disease, and cardiovascular CT plays a major role in procedural planning. During this course you will learn from a multi-disciplinary expert faculty on actual cases.
Course Description
This workshop will allow the learner to get a deep understanding on all aspects of post processing CTA for the purposes of TAVR procedural planning. The workshop is primarily a “How I read” with the expert in a interactive format.
Target Audience
Cardiologists, Interventional cardiologists, Cardiac Surgeons, Physicians, Radiologists
Modalities
Cardiac Computed Tomography
Learning Objectives
Upon completing the course, learners will be able to:
- apply cardiovascular CT to optimize clinical outcome in transcatheter aortic valve
implementation (TAVI) and TAVR with a focus on annular sizing, device selection and
strategies to reduce potential complications. - Identify unfavorable aortic root and vascular anatomy and identify and evaluate alternative approaches.
- Describe the variants of aortic valve, coronary sinus and coronary ostia anatomy and how they may impact management of aortic valve disease.
- Describe the anatomy of the mitral valve by CT and how it can assist in TAVI planning.
How I Read
Ct Workflow or Tavr: Protocols And Image Reconstruction
Fundamentals of Annular Segmentation
- Identifying the annular plane
- Annular sizing by ct
- Valve morphology-tricuspid or not tricuspid
Important Ancillary Measurements Beyond The Annulus
- Coronary height
- Lvot
- Sinus of Valsalva
- Post – Tavr ct and its clinical significance
- Ct for valve in valve procedure
- Access route evaluation
- Incidental findings that impact the procedure
- Ideal report generation