Catheter-Based Treatments
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 at the Memorial Learning Center...
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...
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...
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....
In this article, the authors present a bench-to-animal-to-human proof of concept for valve-in-mechanical (ViMech) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with failed bileaflet mechanical aortic valves. Bench testing showed...
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...
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...
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...
An interesting pilot experiment on attempting to quantify the optimum disposition of neochordae in transapical intervention for severe mitral regurgitation.
...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...
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...
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...
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is expanding to younger patients, but the feasibility of TAVR in failing transcatheter aortic valves (TAV) remains unknown. Dr Tang and colleagues demonstrate in a...


