How to make a “Heart Team” a “real” Team to ensure optimal patient care

Due to the ongoing ageing of the population with increased related co-morbidities, transcatheter interventions are spreading around the first world countries like an unstoppable firewall. Some (the tip of the iceberg) have already established in “normal clinical life” and became very safe procedures for the “modern high-risk patient” with acceptable outcomes over the last decade but many more are just evolving currently being under investigation with first in-man clinical trials