The Hygeia Hospital Transcatheter Heart Valve Department is or has been an official global training center for the SAPIEN 3 valves by Edwards Lifesciences and the Evolut R valves by Medtronic. Its medical staff are worldwide trainers for the placement of valves manufactured by Edwards and Medtronic.
The Transcatheter Heart Valve staff have performed more than 2.000 transcatheter aortic valve replacements (the most in Greece) with all types of valves available today:
- SAPIEN Ultra, Edwards Lifesciences
- Evolut PRO, Medtronic
- Portico, Abbott
- ACURATE neo2, Boston Scientific
- JenaValve
and using all possible implantation methods:
- transfemoral
- transaortic
- transthoracic or transapical
- subclavian route
Director: Dr. Spargias Konstantinos, Clinical Cardiologist
Dr. Spargias Konstantinos has personal experience is ~3000 TAVI and 500 Mitral and Tricuspid procedures (Clips and valves).
He organized the first of its kind Department of Transcatheter Heart Valves (THV) that he directs to date. He shared the same vision with and had the unrestricted support of the Hospital Administration and this made it possible to be among the first in the world and the first in Greece to adopt and introduce all novel transcatheter therapies to the benefit of the patients.
The THV Department has been appointed as a training center for TAVI and TEER procedures by device companies such as Edwards, Medtronic and Abbott. He has been proctoring extensively for the above procedures (TAVI, M and T-TEER, Evoque) training colleagues in all over Europe, USA, Japan, EMEA (KSA, UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt).