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On the World heart day, Sept-29
Leading from the front during a unprecedented crisis
As the world battles the Corona pandemic and the medical fraternity and infrastructure are stressed to the extremes, The Heart Valve Center is proud to present the TAVR World Tour, on the World Heart day, 29th September 2020, to give hope to patients and practitioners that life-saving treatments continue to be administered and great results can be had while exercising caution
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Dr. Abdul Rahman Albnati
Doha, Qatar
Dr. Alain Cribier
Rouen, France
Dr. Andrew Wiper
Blackpool, United Kingdom
Dr. David Smith
Wales, United kingdom
Dr. Diego Gaia
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Eberhard Grube
Bonn, Germany
Dr. Geza Fontos
Budepest, Hungary
Dr. Gopalamurugan
Chennai, India
Dr. Jianan Wang
Kunming, China
Dr. Jonathan Hill
Harefield, United Kingdom
Dr. Khalid Amber
Kufa, Iraq
Dr. Lars Sondergaard
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Nattawut Wongpraparut
Bangkok, Thailand Â
Dr. Prashanth Vaijyanath
Chennai, India
Dr. Rahim Gul
Qassim, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Rahul Sharma
San Francisco, United States
Dr. Raj Makkar
Los angeles, USA
Dr. Ravinay Bhindi
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Thomas Modine
Lille, France
Dr. Vijay Iyer
New York, USA
Dr. Xianbao Liu
Kunming, China
TAVR stands for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, an advanced treatment to replace heart valve is an evidence-based alternative to conventional surgical open heart surgery. It allows quick recovery with minimal hospitalisation and quick return to normal quality of life
The TAVR World Tour is an international event where twenty leading TAVR centres across the world will participate in a one hour live transmission which will be recorded. During this one hour period, experienced and high volume TAVR operators from across those centres will perform a trans-femoral TAVR on indicated patients thereby offering aortic valve replacement without open heart surgery for 20 patients from different parts of the world simultaneously. As a result, we hope to have 20 successful TAVR procedures performed across the world at the same time, creating a historical world event in the field of transcatheter valve therapies.
The Covid pandemic has brought in fear and insecurity across the world. Among them are patients with heart valve diseases. As a result, many patients including many healthcare professionals have developed a sense of reluctance towards appropriate treatments for heart valve diseases because of the fear of contracting Covid. Whilst Covid is harmful, it is well known that heart disease is more harmful and has a mortality rate worse than Covid. The TAVR World Tour is a campaign to send a message of hope for patients who need heart valve treatments across the world and to reassure them that heart valve treatments are being performed safely and successfully across the world restoring better quality of life for many patients. It is also meant to send a solidarity message to healthcare professionals that we should continue to remain strong and deliver cutting edge treatments to deserving patients as we have done before in the safest possible way.
The event will be held on World Heart Day, Tuesday the 29th of September 2020.
September 29, 2020 6:00 PM, IST
The TAVR World Tour was conceived and conceptualised by specialists at The Heart Valve Centre, India (www.theheartvalvecentre.com). The Heart Valve Centre is a centre of excellence run by HeartTeam India private limited which constitutes a group of heart specialists across India forming a virtual non-hospital based Heart Team. The TAVR World Tour is not conducted by any medical device or pharmaceutical company but an initiative by heart specialists campaigning for patients’ wellbeing by demonstrating world wide solidarity among heart specialists.
