[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.…
Tag: Echocardiography
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…