Cardiovascular Business January 23, 2025
Dave Fornell

About a decade ago, a major shift started in at the large annual TCT meeting, shifting from the traditional focus on stents and PCI techniques toward structural heart interventions. In recent years, a large amount of offices have shifted to the rapidly expanding area of transcatheter valves and repairs so patients can avoid open-heart surgery.

“Just few years ago, we used to mostly think about transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), but now there are many more types of valve replacement and valve repair that can take place now interventionally. New concepts like mitral valve repair and replacement, tricuspid valve repair and replacement … it’s a very dynamic field with a lot of things changing,” Dangas said.

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