[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: Structural Heart Disease
Delirium after TAVR: A common side effect linked to increased mortality
[ad_1] Overall, IHPOD was seen in approximately 10.5% of TAVR patients. Fifteen studies from the meta-analysis used Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) scores to track IHPOD…
Cardiac CT before TAVR detects CAD with high accuracy, suggesting a reduced need for invasive imaging
[ad_1] All patients underwent both CTA and ICA before TAVR, but the authors blinded themselves to ICA results to focus on the effectiveness of CTA. CTA coronary reconstruction was used…
Cardiologists detail long-term outcomes of valve-in-valve TMVR
[ad_1] After one year, meanwhile, all-cause mortality was 10.1%. And after a median follow-up of 3.4 years, all-cause mortality jumped to 46.2%. Just 15.1% of those patients, however, died due…
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…
Mitigating risk: How the depth of device implantation impacts LAAO outcomes
[ad_1] Examining data from each procedure, the authors determined that 56% of patients belonged in the proximal implant group and the remaining 44% belonged in the distal implantation group. Patients…
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…
New TAVR valve, premounted to save cardiologists time, linked to promising 30-day outcomes
[ad_1] The study’s technical success rate was 100%. Resheathing was required during three procedures and was successful each time with no complications. The mean procedure time was 45.1 minutes. One…
Alternative TAVR techniques: How to proceed when transfemoral access is not recommended
[ad_1] One benefit of the extrathoracic techniques, the team noted, was that they are “relatively uncomplicated” due in part to the “superficial location and easy manipulation” of these arteries. Another…