Vietnam is about to hold an in-depth conference on TAVI technology.

On July 11 and 12, the Vietnam Valves 2025 Scientific Conference will take place in Ho Chi Minh City - the first professional event in Vietnam focusing on transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI) technique.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Hoang Dinh and Dr. Vu Hoang Vu and the team performed the TAVI procedure for the patient.

The conference was organized by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in collaboration with the Vietnam Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the Vietnam National Association of Cardiology and Yonsei University (Korea), to share medical advances, update new techniques, and aim to build the first professional recommendations in Vietnam for this technique.

According to Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor Nguyen Hoang Bac, Director of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Vietnam Valves 2025 is the first conference to gather experts on TAVI technique - an important milestone in the interventional cardiology development strategy in Vietnam, expected to be an in-depth academic forum with high applicability, contributing to expanding access to TAVI technique and promoting professional consensus in the treatment of heart valve disease in Vietnam.

The conference is not only an update, but also a multi-specialty and multi-generational connection point, to standardize heart valve treatment, aiming at patients. This is a valuable learning and networking opportunity for young doctors, teams that are implementing or preparing to implement TAVI at their units, contributing to promoting the development of the network of heart valve centers in Vietnam in the near future.

TAVI is currently considered the preferred treatment option for elderly patients or patients with many comorbidities, who are not suitable for open heart surgery. Worldwide , many studies have demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of this method, while continuously recording improvements in valve design, implementation techniques and expanded indications.

In Vietnam, TAVI has been initially deployed in a number of major centers, but there are still no unified treatment guidelines and the number of cases performed is limited. In that context, the Vietnam Valves 2025 Conference is expected to contribute to forming a solid professional foundation, aiming at deploying TAVI in a synchronous, safe and effective manner in clinical practice in Vietnam.

THANH SON

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/viet-nam-sap-dien-ra-hoi-nghi-chuyen-sau-ve-ky-thuat-tavi-post800367.html