Transapical TAVR

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

June 3, 2025 | Martin ANOTHER
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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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Silent Brain Infarcts Following Cardiac Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

May 15, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An interesting metanalysis, especially: The ad hoc results of off-pump surgery. The mean number of silent brain infarcts per patient was significantly higher in the transcatheter aortic valve implantation group...

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Informed Shared Decisions for Patients With Aortic Stenosis

May 2, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The overarching, free to read under terms, of the TAVR mini-compendium of this week: the most complex question remains “what is a reasonable expectation of a stakeholder on outcomes of...

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MiniStern Trial: A Randomised Trial Comparing Ministernotomy to Full Median Sternotomy for Aortic Valve Replacement

March 19, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A medium-size RCT comparing full sternotomy to limited sternotomy for conventional aortic valve replacement, presented at the SCTS Annual Meeting in Glasgow. The 7-10% one year attrition rate seems quite...

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Functional Survival: Alive and Better

January 8, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A very brief editorial on frailty as a risk factor. In the time of weighing transcatheter interventions versus variable access surgical options, quantifying this physiological concept is of major importance...

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Echocardiographic Essentials: From Screening to Device Implantation- What the Interventional Cardiologist Needs to Know

March 28, 2016 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A refreshing , adequately supported by pragmatic imaging, 22 minute presentation from an Arizona meeting that many surgeons would find quite informative and educating. Dr. Gellert offers the view of...

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Contemporary Costs Associated With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

September 23, 2015 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors conducted a propensity-matched analysis of outcomes and costs associated with TAVR vs. SAVR procedures in patients considered either intermediate risk (STS PROM 4-8%) or high risk (STS PROM...

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Activity and outcomes for aortic valve implantations performed in England and Wales since the introduction of transcatheter aortic valve implantation

September 18, 2015 | Stuart Grant

This study describes activity and outcomes for both standard aortic valve implantation and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in England and Wales in the TAVI era. The study demonstrates that...

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Internet Video of the Week : Valve-in-valve procedure: importance of the anatomy of surgical bioprostheses

January 16, 2015 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has also evolved as a suitable treatment option for degenerative surgical heart valve disease, with considerable experience in the aortic and mitral positions. Success of...

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Performance of EuroSCORE II in a large US database: implications for transcatheter aortic valve implantation

August 18, 2014 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

The European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation II (EuroSCORE II) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Predicted Risk of Mortality (STS-PROM) were validated for overall in-hospital mortality in an...

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Open issues in transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

August 18, 2014 | Stuart Head

In a two-part review, Bax and many other authorities on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) provide an extensive overview of the open issues related to patient selection, treatment strategy, and...

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Propensity matched analysis of longterm outcomes following transcatheter based aortic valve implantation versus classic aortic valve replacement in patient with previous cardiac surgery

June 20, 2014 | Stuart Grant

This single-centre propensity matched study aimed to compare the outcomes between patients undergoing transapical TAVI or surgical aortic valve replacement in patients who have previously undergone cardiac surgery. Patients who...

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