Catheter-Based Treatments
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. Among 386 patients treated between...
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...
Mick Jagger has undergone a TAVR procedure in New York and is now recovering.
...In light of the recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommendation for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) volumes, this study looked at 113,662 TAVRs from the TVT registry from...
A number of interesting findings in early follow up of this randomized controlled trial on one type of transcatheter aortic valve against conventional surgery: the mechanics of the valve and...
Drugs and Devices The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the indications for the MitraClip™, made by Abbott, have been expanded to include secondary mitral regurgitation. Saranas, Inc,...
On Wednesday March 13, the ACC Quality Summit announced in New Orleans that beginning in mid-2019, hospitals performing transcatheter valve repair and replacement will be able to apply for the...
With the disruptive advancement of catheter-based technologies and minimally invasive techniques in structural heart disease, surgeons must obtain the necessary skills to continue to serve this large patient population. An...
A very useful synopsis of treatment strategies for a vexing lethal condition.
...Perclose ProGlide® suture mediated closure is a common technique for the percutaneous delivery of a suture for closing the common femoral artery access site at the conclusion of transcatheter interventions....


