Catheter-Based Treatments

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ASAIO 2026 | Perioperative Catheter Ablation and LVAD Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias

September 25, 2026

This session features Yasmeen Taha from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA, presenting on “Does Perioperative Catheter Ablation Improve Outcomes in LVAD Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias?” at...

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ASAIO 2026 | Perioperative Catheter Ablation and LVAD Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias

September 25, 2026

This session features Yasmeen Taha from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA, presenting on “Does Perioperative Catheter Ablation Improve Outcomes in LVAD...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 175: Oral Board AI Simulator

September 24, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...

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ASAIO 2026 | Stepdown Unit Management of Hemodynamically Stable Patients on Impella 5.5

September 24, 2026

This session features Armaan Saith, an internal medical resident at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, delivering a presentation on “Stepdown-Bound: Stepdown Unit Management of Hemodynamically Stable Patients on...

JANS Article

Real-World Outcomes After Simplified M-TEER Repair Under Sole TEE Guidance

September 17, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

This single-center, real-world study compared a simplified, fluoroscopy-free mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) workflow guided solely by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) against the conventional approach using combined fluoroscopic and TEE guidance....

JANS Article

Mortality with Paclitaxel-Coated Devices in Peripheral Artery Disease

December 10, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

An ad hoc interim analysis pursuant to previous publications raising concerns on Paclitaxel DCS in chronic critical and not-critical lower limb ischaemia. The short manuscript requires careful reading to form...

JANS Article

Reassessing the Operative Threshold for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in the Context of COVID-19

September 7, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

Patients with aneurysms 7 cm or greater demonstrated a higher probability of survival when treated immediately, compared to delayed repair, for patients under 80 years of age. An interesting attempt...

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Reoperation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database

June 11, 2020 | Emily FarkasSilver Contributor

As TAVR is used in progressively lower-risk cohorts, management of device failure will become increasingly important. This study reports the largest series of patients receiving a surgical reoperation after transcatheter...

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Reduced Leaflet Motion After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

November 22, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

Puzzling subgroup from the GALILEO trial, which appears in the same issue of the periodical as an article that discredits the use of rivaroxaban as thromboprevention strategy : https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1911425?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article, And...

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Measuring Chordae Tension During Transapical Neochordae Implantation: Toward Understanding Objective Consequences of Mitral Valve Repair

October 8, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

An interesting pilot experiment on attempting to quantify the optimum disposition of neochordae in transapical intervention for severe mitral regurgitation.

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Transcatheter or Surgical Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation in Elderly Patients: A Propensity-Weighted Analysis

October 6, 2019 | Edward SavageBronze Contributor

The authors address appropriate use of the transcatheter clip to treat degenerative mitral regurgitation in elderly low to moderate risk patients. Their analysis shows that the transcatheter approach had slightly...

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Long-Term Results of Mitral Valve Repair for Regurgitation Due to Leaflet Prolapse

August 25, 2019 | Tom C. NguyenSilver Contributor

In an era of increased use of MitraClip, surgical mitral valve repair still offers a durable solution. Tirone David and colleages report 1,234 consecutive patients who had mitral valve repair...

JANS Article

Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Versus Surgical Replacement of Failing Stented Aortic Biological Valves

July 20, 2019 | Jessica LucSilver Contributor

This retrospective study by Sedeek et al aimed to compare the outcomes of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) valve-in-valve (n=90) versus surgical replacement (SAVR) (n=260) of failing stented...

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