CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -First TAVI case On April 16, 2002, at the Charles Nicolle University Hospital in Rouen, France, the Interventional Cardiologist, Professor Alain Cribier performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure in the world. He used a PVT percutaneous heart valve.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first TAVR procedure was performed on April 16, 2002, by Cribier et al4 and opened new horizons in the treatment of structural valve disease. The treated subject was a 57-year-old inoperable patient with severe symptomatic AS who had balloon aortic valvuloplasty.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fifteen years ago, Alain Cribier, MD, and colleagues performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement in 2002 at Charles Nicolle University Hospital, University of Rouen, France.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1990s, the idea of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) emerged from clinicians by the insight that the long-term hemodynamic and clinical results of aortic balloon valvuloplasty to treat aortic stenonosis were not satisfying.