Q&A: Cardiologists explore the potential impact of a screening program for aortic stenosis

[ad_1] Aortic stenosis (AS) is quite common among older patients, and severe AS can be fatal if left untreated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), surgery or other medical therapies.…

Interventional echocardiography expected to grow thanks to new structural heart procedures

[ad_1] “We are moving to the right side of the heart where we now have transcatheter tricuspid valve repair and replacement (TTVR) devices. Ultimately, if I were to predict, I…

Interventional echocardiographers play a key role in the treatment of structural heart disease

[ad_1] “We are responsible for the pre-procedural screening and detection of the disease process, and obviously the intra-procedural imaging has become very intense. It requires a lot of training and…

Radiation exposure in the cath lab: Tracking the impact on interventional echocardiographers

[ad_1] Interventional echocardiographers performing transesophageal echo (TEE) during structural heart disease (SHD) procedures are exposed to ionizing radiation from their proximity to the cath lab X-ray angiography system. However, there has…