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Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team. Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable.

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Effective health management strategies for patients undergoing valve replacement: a bibliometric analysis of the current research status and future directions

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Bibliometric analysis of studies on managing patients with artificial heart valves has not been previously performed. Methods This study analyzed 2,771 publications related to patient management after valve replacement published in the Web of Science Core Collection database between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2022.

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Smidt Heart Institute Experts Selected to Join JACC Editorial Team

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As a JACC executive associate editor, Gupta will lead the publication’s strategic relationships with health policy and research organizations, such as the Heart Valve Collaboratory and Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, in areas pertaining to structural interventional cardiology.

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Sudan's rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease guidelines: a simplified approach in an endemic country

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundRheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a preventable sequelae of group A beta hemolytic streptococcal infection leading to an immune reaction: acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and progressive heart valve dysfunction.

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How can Warfarin be safe “even in” first trimester of pregnancy ? The story behind the 5 mg cut-off !

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

(Most IVF pregnancies seem to need it for some unknown reason) Risk of VTE Recurrent pregnancy loss(Placental micro-circulation clogging) SLE/APLA syndrome /Scleroderma VTE related PAH Mitral valve disease with AF. Cardiomyopathy Finally most importantly prosthetic heart valves & other Intra cardiac devices. PMID: 10334435.

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Medtronic Launches the Avalus Ultra Valve Engineered for Ease of Use at Implant and Lifetime Patient Management

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3 Based on internal test report D00997823, Avalus Ultra Full Valve Stiffness Design Verification Report. 4 Based on internal test report D00998399, Design Characterization Report: External Sewing Ring Diameter, Valve Housing External Diameter, and Inflow Orifice Diameter of Avalus Ultra. 5 Verbelen T, Roussel JC, Cathenis K, et al.,

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Redo-TAVR with balloon-expandable valves: outcomes from a national registry

Cardiology Update

Among a total of 350,591 patients (1,320 in the redo-TAVR group and 349,271 in the native-TAVR group), the analysis focused on 1,320 pairs of patients who were well-matched in terms of propensity for redo-TAVR or native-TAVR.

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