Catheter-Based Treatments

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Foldax Announces Successful First Human Use of Tria Biopolymer Mitral Heart Valve

June 4, 2021 | Wei-Guo Ma

On May 25, 2021, Dr. David Heimansohn successfully performed the first surgical implantation of biopolymer Tria™ heart valve in a patient with mitral valve disease at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN. Foldax’s Tria valve...

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Tricuspid Regurgitation

May 18, 2023 | Wei-Guo Ma

This is a comprehensive review on tricuspid regurgitation, including anatomy, clinical presentation, epidemiology, causes and classification, diagnosis, and therapy. Knowledge gaps in disease process, diagnostic challenges, timing of interventions, and...

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Risk Calculator for Surgical Repair of Primary Mitral Regurgitation

February 12, 2023 | Wei-Guo Ma

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons published its newly developed short-term risk calculator of operative and thirty day risk specific to isolated mitral valve repair for primary mitral regurgitation and degenerative...

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Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair (MitraClip) Step-by-Step Guide

July 15, 2022 | Jessica Luc

In this article, the authors provide a step-by-step illustrated guide to performing transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (MitraClip). This is a key article that will be of benefit to all...

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Foldax Announces Successful First Human Use of Tria Biopolymer Mitral Heart Valve

June 4, 2021 | Wei-Guo Ma

On May 25, 2021, Dr. David Heimansohn successfully performed the first surgical implantation of biopolymer Tria™ heart valve in a patient with mitral valve disease at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital,...

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Prosthesis–Patient Mismatch in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

December 18, 2018 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors, using the STS/ACC TVT Registry, analyzed the the occurrence of patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) in 62,215 patients enrolled between 2014 and 2017. They found that severe and moderate PPM...

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Cost-Effectiveness of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis at Intermediate Risk: Results From the PARTNER 2 Trial

December 18, 2018 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness of TAVR versus SAVR in 3110 intermediate-risk aortic stenosis patients from the PARTNER-2 trial. Using a Markov model, the authors found that TAVR is economically...

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Clinical Leaflet Thrombosis in Transcatheter and Surgical Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves by Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography

December 10, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Basra and colleagues report that among patients with bioprosthetic aortic valves who had clinical or echocardiographic indications suggestive of leaflet thrombosis, one-third of patients had this diagnosis confirmed by four-dimensional...

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Pioneers in Cardiac Surgery With John McKenna

December 6, 2018 | Leanne Harling (Ashrafian)Silver Contributor…

Leanne Harling of Imperial College in London, UK, interviews John McKenna of Edinburgh, UK, about his experience in the device industry side of cardiothoracic surgery. They discuss the development of...

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Predicting Quality of Life at 1 Year After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Real-World Population

October 14, 2018 | Ruben Osnabrugge

Despite the benefit for most patients, some patients have poor outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Currently it is hard to predict which patient is predisposed to poor outcome...

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Transcatheter Mitral-Valve Repair in Patients With Heart Failure

September 25, 2018 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This multicenter study evaluated the efficacy of medical therapy plus transcatheter valve repair (MitraClip) to medical therapy alone for heart failure accompanied by secondary moderate to severe mitral regurgitation. The...

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CMS Meeting: TAVR Requirements for New and Existing Programs

July 28, 2018 | Tom C. NguyenBronze Contributor

The US Centers for Medicare and medicaid Services (CMS) convened a panel on 07/25/2018 to discuss recommendations for hospitals to maintain and begin TAVR programs. The focus of the discussion...

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In Global News: World Lung Cancer Day, Percutaneous Tricuspid Repairs, and a Notebook for Cancer Treatment Management

July 27, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care and General Interest A woman developed a combination planner, record-keeping notebook, and journal to help her husband through his treatment for esophageal cancer, and other patients now use...

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