2025 Scientific Sessions

Structural Heart Disease

Breakfast Program: Radiation and Orthopedic Safety in the Cath Lab—We Can Do Both (CME)
Breakfast Program: Tricuspid TEER—Mastering the Technique (CME)
Welcome and Overview
Jason H. Rogers, M.D., FSCAI
Clinical Case Example: Severe TR
Anene Ukaigwe, M.D., FSCAI
Patient Selection for Tricuspid TEER
Chad Kliger, M.D., FSCAI
Procedural Strategy and Planning for Tricuspid TEER
Paul Dennis Mahoney, M.D., FSCAI
Challenging Imaging: When to Consider 3D ICE
Gagan Singh, M.D., FSCAI
T-TEER and Device Leads: How to Manage
Anita W. Asgar, M.D., FSCAI
Case Resolution
Anene Ukaigwe, M.D., FSCAI
Deep Dive: Mastering Mitral TEER
COAPT and Beyond: Patient Selection and Periprocedural Optimization
Anene Ukaigwe, M.D., FSCAI
M-TEER Device Landscape
Sammy Elmariah, M.D., FSCAI
The Key to Success: Intraprocedural Imaging and Guidance of M-TEER
Geraldine Ong
Case #1: Primary MR
Dr. Giorgio A. Medranda, MD, FSCAI
Case #1: Resolution
Dr. Giorgio A. Medranda, MD, FSCAI
Case #2: Mixed DMR-FMR
Marwan S Saad, MD, PhD, FSCAI
Case #3: Atrial FMR
Michael N. Young, MD, FSCAI
Case #3: Resolution
Michael N. Young, MD, FSCAI
Intraprocedural Evaluation and Predictors of Outcomes: What Defines Procedural Success?
George S. Hanzel, M.D., FSCAI
Fundamentals and General Overview of Transcatheter Mitral Interventions
Hildner Lecture
Innovation or Complication? Exploring the Impact of Percutaneous Pulmonary Valves
Keynote Presentation: Brief Glimpse at the Past and Hopes for the Future of Interventional Cardiology
Lessons From the Trenches: Real-World Challenges in Heart/Brain Interventions
New! SCAI/HRS LAAO Guidelines
Dr. Andrew Michael Goldsweig, MD, MS, FSCAI
Seeing Is Believing. CTA vs. TEE vs. ICE for LAAO and PFO
Omar Khalique, M.D., FSCAI
Embolization Escapades: Securing the Unsecured
John M. Lasala, M.D., Ph.D., MSCAI
Perforation Perils: Is LAAO Still a Risk?
Himanshu Agarwal, M.D., FSCAI
Sealing the Deal: Mastering Residual Leak Management
Saibal Kar, M.D., FSCAI
Different Faces of PFOs: They Are Not All the Same
Zahid C. Amin, M.D., MSCAI
Let’s Take the Gloves Off: Controversies in Structural Heart Care
Lunch Program: The Case for Early Treatment in Severe Aortic Stenosis (SAS) Patients—What the Latest Evidence Tells Us (CME)
Navigating Tricuspid Regurgitation: From Imaging to Interventions
Presidential Address by James Hermiller, MD, MSCAI, President 2024-2025, Award Presentations
Revisiting the Art of VSD Closure
Anatomical Prerequisites for Perimembranous VSD Closure From an Interventionalist Perspective
Nageswar Rao Koneti, MD
Currently Available Devices for VSD Closure
Makram R. Ebeid, M.D., FSCAI
Perventricular VSD Closure
Gareth J. Morgan, M.B.B.S., FSCAI
Creation of VSD Indication and Technique
David T. Balzer, M.D., MSCAI
Post-MI VSD Closure
John M. Lasala, M.D., Ph.D., MSCAI
SCAI WIN: Coronary and Structural Case Presentations with Expert Debates on Treatment Strategies
Coronary Case Presentation
Mariem Sawan, MD
Debate: Complete Revascularization – Pro
Saba Z Assar, MD
Debate: Complete Revascularization – Con
Allison Barbara Hall, M.D., FSCAI
Structural Case Presentation
Ranya Sweis, M.D., FSCAI
Debate: Tricuspid Regurgitation – Repair
Anita W. Asgar, M.D., FSCAI
Debate: Tricuspid Regurgitation – Replace
Megan Coylewright, M.D., FSCAI
Structural Heart: Year in Review
TAVR Complex Techniques
TAVR Fundamentals: From Hemodynamics to New Innovations
Complex Hemodynamics of Aortic Stenosis
Nils P Johnson, M.D.
Patient Prosthesis Mismatch and TAVR in Small Annuli
Karim Al-Azizi, M.D., FSCAI
Bicuspid TAVR Considerations
Amar Krishnaswamy, M.D.
Lifetime Management: TAVR in the Young Patient
Matthew Cavender, M.D.
TAVR Access in 2025
Noa Holoshitz, M.D., FSCAI
What’s New: Recent TAVR Trials
Howard C. Herrmann, M.D., MSCAI
Valve Techniques: Beyond Pulmonary Valves
Welcome by Program Chair Binita Shah, MD, FSCAI
Welcome by Program Chair Binita Shah, MD, FSCAI
Binita Shah, M.D., M.S., FSCAI