{"id":4881,"date":"2011-03-21T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:59:10","slug":"transcatheter-heart-valve-replacement-roselli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/03\/21\/transcatheter-heart-valve-replacement-roselli\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Technology Update: &#8220;When Will Open Heart Valve Surgery Be A Bygone Era?&#8221; With Dr. Eric Roselli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the exciting possibilities of transcatheter heart valve therapy, my inbox is overflowing with questions about the CoreValve, the Sapien and the MitraClip. For example, Dorothy sent me a question that reads, &#8220;Given all the advancements in certain treatments&#8230; Can you estimate a time when open heart valve replacement surgery will be part of a bygone era?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to get Dorothy the best possible answer to this question. So, I met with Dr. Eric Roselli, staff surgeon from The Cleveland Clinic, to obtain his clinical opinions. Dr. Roselli is actively using transcatheter heart valves replacement therapies in his practice. In fact, Dr. Roselli is so knowledgeable with the percutaneous technologies shaping heart valve treatment, he was named the TechCon Co-Chairman at the annual <em>Society of Thoracic Surgeons<\/em> meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ysZp1jcQlnA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I hope this helped you learn more about transcatheter heart valve therapies and their potential, future utility for patients suffering from valvular defects. Thanks to Dorothy for her excellent question. And, thanks to Dr. Roselli for sharing his time, expertise and ideas with our community!<\/p>\n<p>For those of you in our patient and caregiver community who are hearing impaired, I have provided a transcript of Dr. Roselli&#8217;s interview below.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Hi, everbody. It\u2019s Adam and I\u2019m here at STS in San Diego at the 47th annual event, and we\u2019re answering your questions that you posted up at HeartValveBlog.com and very excited to be having with me Dr. Roselli from the Cleveland Clinic who is going to be talking today and answering a question all about the latest technology specific to transcatheter valve treatment and the question comes in from Dorothy and Dorothy writes, \u201cGiven the advance in certain treatments like the CoreValve and the Edwards SAPIEN valve, can you estimate the time from when open heart valve surgery will be part of a by-gone era?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Roselli: Thanks for the question, Dorothy. It\u2019s a tough one, but I think an excellent question because for years I think that there\u2019s been a lot of discussion about small incremental improvements in valve technology and in the last couple of years, we\u2019ve seen this really exciting explosion in development of valves from slightly better biologic valves to an entirely new way of delivering them. But I think it\u2019s important to understand that this new technology is not a replacement that should be compared directly against standard therapies. In fact, none of them have a therapy that, I think, should be compared as competitive. They should be looked at as additional tools in our toolbox to treat a complex disease which we don\u2019t understand perfectly well enough to deliver the ideal treatment. I\u2019m a surgeon. But, I\u2019d be happy if we never had to operate on people. In fact, if we never had to give people pain or suffering in any way at all and we could cure them, that\u2019s the by-gone era we\u2019re looking for. But, I think that when we get to a point where we understand aortic diseases, whether it\u2019s congenital diseases like bicuspid valves or other congenitally aortic stenosis or aortic insufficiency problems or degenerative valve disease, to the point where we can predict when it\u2019s going to happen and how it\u2019s going to happen at a biologic level, we\u2019ll treat it without a mechanical fix. That\u2019s when aortic valve replacement as we know it will be a by-gone era. It sounds like I\u2019m talking around the question. But, I think it\u2019s totally realistic to think that if you look at where we\u2019ve come in the last 100 years when Dr. Osler, who is probably still the most quoted physician in history, talked about operating on the heart as malpractice, totally something that could never be achieved, to today when we\u2019re talking about delivering aortic valves through a small puncture wound in your groin, it\u2019s not inconceivable to think that in our lifetime that we may be able to, you know, deliver patient directed therapies to slow or eliminate the degenerative processes that are happening in valves. But, probably for, you know, a good generation or so, we\u2019re going to see all of these various valve therapies be complimentary to one each other and so that\u2019s it\u2019s not one valve fits everybody with any kind of aortic valve disease but a different valve for a different patient for a different process and so we\u2019re going to see more of these lesser invasive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">heart valve replacements,<\/a> for example like the ones you\u2019ve described, but newer valves that are coming out that are not, you know, delivered from a puncture wound in the groin but we don\u2019t have to suture them in place. So, you know, because that they offer an advantage in somebody like yourself, if you don\u2019t mind me describing it, that, you know, whose valve needed to be taken out but could be delivered through a tiny incision where we can remove the valve instead of having to suture it in place. It\u2019s what\u2019s called a sutureless or a self-fixing valve. Those valves exist and they\u2019re already going in patients in Europe and so they add a whole another tool to treat valve therapy. So, what\u2019s the question again? Can I estimate the time? Probably in the next couple of generations, around that time, at least the time that\u2019s imaginable. But, no time soon and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: So, this is why you were the co-chairman of TechCon and you\u2019ve got a lot of insight into all this new technology and how you\u2019re working with it actually today, though, in your practice, correct?<\/p>\n<p>Eric Roselli, MD: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: And part of the whole trials that are going on, and on behalf of all the patients out there and the caregivers, as well, I just want to thank you for what you\u2019re doing. You\u2019re pursuit of healthy hearts, healthy heart valves as well, is to be commended and acknowledged. And, I just want to thank you because you\u2019ve been a great supporter of our site and without you and your expertise \u2014 It\u2019s a great community and you\u2019ve helped build it everyday so thank you so much for your help.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Eric Roselli: Thanks, Adam, and keep that camera rolling. Thanks to you, too, because I\u2019ve known you for many, many years before I was a doctor and I\u2019m proud of what you do everyday with this site. It\u2019s awesome. I mean you help people everyday. I\u2019m proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Keep the camera rolling. I\u2019m proud of you, too.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Roselli, MD: There\u2019s a lot of love in the air. I love this guy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Eric-Roselli-Cleveland-Ohio.php\">To learn more about Dr. Roselli, please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgeons-clinics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}