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In this short interview, Dr James Gammie (University of Maryland Medical Center, MD, US) discusses the findings from surgical trial assessing the benefit of concomitant tricuspid repair during mitral valve surgery. The trial, presented at AHA 2021, demonstrated that at 2 years, TA had no impact on MACCE, survival, or QOL.
Discussion Points
1. Reasoning for this Study
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Dr Hemal Gada (UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, US) and his team published an informative review article on “Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Optimization Strategies: Cusp Overlap, Commissural Alignment, Sizing, and Positioning”, in a comprehensive special focus issue on the “Lifetime Management of Patients With Aortic Stenosis” edited byDr Kendra Grubb(Emory Structural Heart and Valve…
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Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in industrialized societies with an incidence approaching 10 per 1,000 population after age 65 and an age-dependent prevalence of less than 1% between ages 45-55, 2-5% between ages 65-75, and approximately 10% for patients aged 80 years or more.Thus, HF is primarily a condition of the elderly and approximately 80% of patients…
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A working definition of Heart Failure (HF) was recently conceptualized by the Heart Failure Society of America as:
"a syndrome caused by cardiac dysfunction, generally resulting from myocardial muscle dysfunction or loss and characterized by LV dilation or hypertrophy. Whether the dysfunction is primarily systolic or diastolic or mixed, it leads to neurohormonal and circulatory abnormalities,…
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In this video, Dr Kendra Grubb, surgical director of the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center and Dr Jaffar Khan, Interventional Cardiologist, Co-inventor of BASILICA, LAMPOON and ELASTA-Clip come together to discuss Dr Khan’s recent review article on the three applications of transcatheter electrosurgery of aortic and mitral valve leaflets to enable transcatheter heart valve implantation. Dr…
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Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in industrialized societies, with an incidence approaching 10 per 1,000 population after age 65 and an age-dependent prevalence of less than 1% between ages 45 and 55, 2-5% between ages 65 and 75, and approximately 10% for patients aged 80 years or more.1-3 Thus, HF is primarily a condition of the elderly, and approximately 80% of…
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Children and adults with congenital heart disease are increasingly benefiting from non-surgical alternatives to repair their heart defects. The last decade has seen a remarkable advance in the tools and techniques used to treat congenital heart disease in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. This article summarizes a few of the important tools available in 2005.
Atrial Septal Defect
Secundum…
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