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Patients Who Received Ross Procedure Demonstrate Excellent Survival Rates after 20 Years

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Adult Cardiac

During the surgery, the malfunctioning aortic valve is replaced with the patients own healthy pulmonary valvea technique called an autograftand the pulmonary valve replaced with donor tissue. Three patients underwent the Ross-Konno procedure, in which the left-sided outflow root is enlarged to fit the pulmonary autograft.

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CardioFocus to Present Data Supporting Next Generation Pulsed Field Ablation Systems at Heart Rhythm 2024

DAIC

milla1cf Wed, 05/15/2024 - 19:05 May 15, 2024 — CardioFocus, Inc. , a medical device company dedicated to advancing ablation treatment for cardiac arrythmias, announced its participation at the Heart Rhythm 2024 conference, taking place in person at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center and virtually, May 16-19, 2024.

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Clinical characteristics and mortality risk factors in pediatric hypertrophic, restrictive, and rapidly progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective cohort study with follow-up

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Demographic, clinical, and diagnostic data, as well as follow-up outcomes, were reviewed. The independent risk factors for mortality included left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), pulmonary hypertension, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels (P<0.05).

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Tenax Therapeutics Announces New U.S. Patent Covering the Use of Levosimendan in Pulmonary Hypertension with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (PH-HFpEF)

DAIC

Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:48 May 6, 2024 — Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. , Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:48 May 6, 2024 — Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. , The primary outcome measure for the study is change in six-minute walk distance from Baseline to Week 12.

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Core Components of Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs: 2024 Update: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Circulation

In addition, in recognition that high-quality cardiac rehabilitation programs regularly monitor their processes and outcomes and engage in an ongoing process of quality improvement, we introduce a new core component of program quality.

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Expanding role of absolute zero fluoroscopy atrial septal defect closure: a single-center experience

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Complex cases included patients with large defects (25mm), multiple or fenestrated ASDs, deficient posterior-inferior rim <3mm, deficient retro-aortic rim <5mm, pulmonary hypertension, septal malalignment, and pregnancy. Patients were categorized into two groups based on the complexity of their cases (simple vs. complex ASD cases).

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Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer Risk Calculator

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Surgeon

Resource Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer Risk Calculator gmckinney Wed, 10/16/2024 - 07:59 The new pulmonary resection for lung cancer risk calculator is engineered using contemporary data from the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database.

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