In line with the celebration of World Heart Day, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center Qassim proudly participates in the TAVR world tour one team one heart. The center is the only center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia participated in this historical world event in the field of transcatheter valve therapies. This event was held last September 29, 2020.

The TAVR World Tour is an international event where (23) leading TAVR centers across the world have participated in a one-hour live transmission which was recorded. During this period, experienced and high volume TAVR operators from across those centers have performed a trans-femoral TAVR on indicated patients thereby offering aortic valve replacement without open-heart surgery for 23 patients from different parts of the world simultaneously.

The TAVR World Tour is a campaign to send a message of hope for patients who need heart valve treatments across the world and to reassure them that heart valve treatments are being performed safely and successfully across the world restoring better quality of life for many patients. It is also meant to send a solidarity message to healthcare professionals that we should continue to remain strong and deliver cutting edge treatments to deserving patients as we have done before in the safest possible way.

Dr. Abdulrahman Al Mesned, Center Director extends his appreciation to Dr. Rahim Gul and Dr. Akram Aldesoky, the TAVR expert from the center and the rest of the team to have come up with the successful live streaming. It is worth to note that PSCCQ is performing TAVR since 2014 with a successful rate. The TAVR World Tour was conceived and conceptualized by specialists at The Heart Valve Centre; India. The TAVR World Tour is not conducted by any medical device or pharmaceutical company but an initiative by heart specialists campaigning for patients’ wellbeing by demonstrating worldwide solidarity among heart specialists.