This case brought proud to not just Dr. Lal but to the whole country, when Dr Lal performed world’s Ist Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement with Core Valve. It was an unbelievable achievement in the field of interventional cardiology where the diseased aortic valve can now be replaced by a new valve non-surgically. In this procedure the patient suffering from severe aortic stenosis, unfit for open heart surgery can now undergo non-surgical aortic valve replacement. The first non-surgical aortic valve replacement was done by Dr. Alain Cribierin 2002 by using PHT valve and Dr. P Lal along with his team performed the First Case of The World of Aortic Valve Replacement using CORE VALVE. The case got published in all major medical journals – both nationally as well as internationally, and paved way to a revolution of treating/replacing valve non-surgically. 20 years down the line, this is the most common procedure in treating patients from severe aortic stenosis, who are not fit for open heart surgery and now go for non-surgical way of valve replacement -TAVI/TAVR.

Publications

Papers presented and published in Indian Heart Journal (Ist Scientific Paper of the Country)

• First-In-Man Experience of Percutaneous AorticValve Replacement Using Self-Expanding Core ValveProsthesis —
  P Lal, PT Upasani, S Kanwar, A Parihar, R Arora, E Grube, JC Laborde: Ind Heart J 63: 3, 241-244, 2011