Catheter Based Valve and Aortic Surgery

Gorav Ailawadi, MDChief, Section of Adult Cardiac SurgerySurgical Director, Advanced Cardiac Valve CenterUniversity of Virginia, Dept of Surgery Charlottesville, VA, 22903USA

• Aortic Valve Anatomy: Implications for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.- Transfemoral TAVR: Balloon-Expandable Valves.- TAVR with CoreValve via trans-femoral approach.- Transfemoral: Upcoming Valves.- Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.- Transaortic Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.- Alternate Vessel Approaches to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) .- Cost –Effectiveness of Transcatheter Aortic Valve replacement.- Challenges in Valve-in-Valve therapy for aortic valves.- Anatomy and Pathophysiology of Mitral Valve.- Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty for Mitral Stenosis.- Edge to Edge Repair with Mitraclip for Functional Mitral Regurgitation.- Edge to Edge Repair (Mitraclip)- Degenerative.- Mitral Annular Techniques.- Interventional mitral annular reduction techniques.- Repair of Paravalvular Leaks.- Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement.- Mitral Valve.- Percutaneous Treatment of Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling.- Anatomic Considerations for the Pulmonary Valve.- Pulmonary Insufficiency- Melody Valve Trans-catheter therapy for the dysfunctional right ventricular outflow tract.- Transventricular Approaches to Pulmonary Valve Replacement.- Anatomic considerations for Tricuspid Valve Interventions.- Percutaneous Mitral and Tricuspid annuloplasty.- Percutaneous Tricuspid Repair Techniques.

“This is a useful resource for cardiovascular surgeons, interventional and general cardiologists, and clinicians involved in the treatment of these patients, as well as researchers involved in investigations of structural heart disease. The editors are respected academic surgeons and have assembled a fantastic group of authors … . This book is an important addition to the literature and will be valuable as a reference for all clinicians involved in this dynamic and transformative area of clinical medicine.” (Michael Bates, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2016)