The world’s leading heart specialists from across the globe have come together to create awareness about Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure at the inaugural of TAVR World Tour.
This is the first cardiovascular health awareness campaign, comprising 20 cardiac specialist teams from 20 different cities across the world live on one global platform (JioMeet). The tour was conceived and directed by Dr. A.B. Gopalamurugan,Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at Kauvery Hospital Chennai and team.
The objective is to educate the masses on modern cardiac treatments such as TAVR that is an alternative to conventional open-heart surgeries thereby reducing the recovery time to just 2 days in most cases. This event marks a milestone in medical history that 20 medical teams have successfully performed the same procedure across the globe in synchrony.
The event was inaugurated by Dr. C. Vijayabaskar, State Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Dr. Alain Cribier, who is known to have invented the TAVR procedure was one of the panellists among the other renowned doctors from France, Germany, UK, Hungary, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, China, Thailand, Australia, USA and South America.
“Kauvery hospital is proud to be a part of global initiative such as TAVR World Tour. We congratulate The Heart Valve Centre, Heart Team India and Dr. A. B. Gopalamurugan along with the team of medical experts across the world for this feat. Through this campaign, we wish to reiterate that medical emergencies such as cardiac ailments should never be ignored including in this pandemic situations and immediate help should be quickly sought”, said Dr. Aravindan Selvaraj, Executive Director, Kauvery Hospital, Chennai.
The World Tour was seen by so many viewers around the world that it created the Guinness World Records for having the most viewers for a cardiovascular health awareness campaign.