Transcatheter Mitral Intervention
A recently published article showed the benefit of TEER compared to mitral valve surgery in older, sicker patients with a high risk in surgery. Based on the French administrative hospital discharge database, the study collected...
This multisociety European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) consensus statement addresses three mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction: ventricular free-wall rupture, pseudoaneurysm, and papillary muscle rupture....
With the recent approval for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) across all risk profiles, reintervention is likely to become common practice. As surgeons treat younger, fitter patients with longer life...
A recently published article showed the benefit of TEER compared to mitral valve surgery in older, sicker patients with a high risk in surgery. Based on the French administrative hospital...
In this article, the authors evaluated the practice trends and three-year outcomes following transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) and surgical repair for degenerative MR in the United States. Medicare and Medicaid...
This video shows the technical challenges of explanting a valve-in-ring mitral valve. The patient was a 40-year-old woman who presented with a failed mitral valve repair in which a P2...
The Washington University group compared operator radiation exposure during transcatheter valve implantation when performed via a transfemoral versus an alternative access approach, when performed in a catheterization lab versus a...
Blase Carabello of the East Carolina Heart Institute in Greenville North Carolina, USA, and Jean-François Obadia of the Hopital Cardiothoracique Louis Pradel in Lyon, France, discuss the COAPT and the...
Patient Care and General Interest A father got a sternotomy scar tattoo in support of his son after the boy underwent surgery for supravalvular aortic stenosis. In a Viewpoint paper...
Patient Care and General Interest Uruguay’s fight against tobacco and Phillip Morris was highlighted at the recent Annual Meeting of the American College of Cardiology, and one physician shares her...
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)...
The Stanford University cardiac surgery team expounds on current evidence for selection of prostheses in valve replacement. While more liberal usage of biologic prostheses in younger patients may be appropriate...
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,...



