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  • Alain G. Cribier, MD, aortic stenosis, and TAVI

    Daniel GelfmanIndianapolis, IN In 2024, the world of interventional cardiology lost one of its greatest innovators: Alain Cribier, MD (1945–2024). Called the father of “structural heart disease” treatment and described as “larger than life, he was a Renaissance man, fluent in English and French, knowledgeable in philosophy and art, but keen to be a physician…