Aortic - Cardiovascular Update

Aortic Stenosis, Heart Failure, and Aortic Valve Replacement

JAMA Cardiology

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This narrative review analyzes associations among heart failure, aortic stenosis, and aortic valve replacement.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Heart Failure Aortic Stenosis

TAVI Matches SAVR in Lower Risk Aortic Valve Patients: 10 year outcomes

Cardiology Update

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The NOTION trial, a pioneering study, sought to compare the long-term clinical and bioprosthesis outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (AS) at lower surgical risk. Severe SVD was defined by specific criteria.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Outcomes Thrombosis

Major Win for Preemptive TAVR in Symptomless Aortic Stenosis

Med Page Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) yielded clinical benefit when given early in the disease process while patients still had no symptoms or other indication for aortic valve replacement, according to the EARLY TAVR.

TAVR

TAVR Aortic Aortic valve Stenosis

Smidt Heart Institute Opens Aortic Surveillance Clinic

DAIC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Experts at the Smidt Heart Institute's new Aortic Surveillance Clinic will monitor patients with aortic aneurysms (illustrated here) or enlarged aortas. Through the Aortic Surveillance Clinic, we offer reassurance that they are being carefully and closely monitored and that proper therapy, including surgery, will be offered if needed.”

Aortic

Aortic Aneurysm Aortic valve Nursing

Abbott Announces First Procedures in ENVISION Trial of Navitor TAVI System to Treat Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis

DAIC

MARCH 25, 2024

The global, randomized trial ( envisiontrial.com ) will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Abbott’s minimally invasive Navitor transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system in approximately 1,500 patients at intermediate or low surgical risk with severe aortic stenosis (narrowing of the aortic valve).

Stenosis

Stenosis Aortic Aortic valve Heart Valves

Heart-Valve-Surgery.Com and Medtronic Launch Novel "Aortic Stenosis Patient Activation Platform" to Empower Patients

DAIC

APRIL 25, 2024

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve which prevents the aortic leaflets from opening and closing properly. Patients with aortic stenosis often have heart murmurs and experience debilitating symptoms including chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath and an irregular heartbeat.

Heart Valves

Heart Valves Stenosis Aortic Aortic valve

FDA Announces Teleflex/Arrow International Recall Arrow FiberOptix and UltraFlex Intra-Aortic Balloon (IAB) Catheter Kits

DAIC

JUNE 13, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) announced that Teleflex , and their subsidiary Arrow International , are recalling the Arrow FiberOptix Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheter Kit and Arrow UltraFlex Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheter Kits after finding that a manufacturing error may cause the catheter’s balloon to become overtwisted.

Aortic

Aortic Blood Pressure Ischemia Heart Failure

Medtronic Announces FDA Approval of Newest-generation Evolut TAVR System for Treatment of Symptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis

DAIC

MARCH 28, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 03/28/2024 - 07:30 March 28, 2024 — Medtronic plc, a global leader in healthcare technology, announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved the Evolut FX+ transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system for the treatment of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. Aortic stenosis.

TAVR

TAVR Stenosis Aortic Aortic valve

Rare genetic variants linked to bicuspid aortic valve disease in young adults identified

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Genetic variants linked to a rare form of bicuspid aortic valve disease that affects young adults and can lead to dangerous and potentially life-threatening aortic complications have been identified by researchers at UTHealth Houston.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Bicuspid/Mitral Aortic Research

Sarcopenia and aortic valve disease

Heart BMJ

JULY 10, 2024

Valvular heart disease, including calcific or degenerative aortic stenosis (AS), is increasingly prevalent among the older adult population. Over the last few decades, treatment of severe AS has been revolutionised following the development of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Quality of Life TAVR

New Study Suggests that Amyloid Contributes to Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Development

DAIC

JUNE 7, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Fri, 06/07/2024 - 15:10 June 7, 2024 — Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the major heart valve disease that afflicts nearly 10 million patients globally with an annual mortality exceeding 100,000, and the numbers continue to rise. These findings appear online in the journal Trends in Molecular Medicine.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Heart Valves Pharmacology

Unstable 'fluttering' predicts aortic aneurysm with 98% accuracy

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no symptoms until it ruptures.

Aneurysm

Aneurysm Aortic Research

A Multimodal Video-Based AI Biomarker for Aortic Stenosis Development and Progression

JAMA Cardiology

APRIL 5, 2024

This cohort study explores whether a novel artificial intelligence (AI) video-based biomarker for aortic stenosis is associated with development and progression of aortic stenosis.

Biomarkers

Biomarkers Stenosis Aortic

Is Cardiology Overtreating Aortic Stenosis? with Linda Gillam, MD, MPH

HCPLive

OCTOBER 11, 2024

be overtreating aortic stenosis. Linda Gillam, MD, MPH, discusses the idea that the cardiology community may.

Stenosis

Stenosis Aortic

Diabetes does not increase in-hospital or short-term mortality in patients undergoing surgical repair for type A aortic dissection: insight from the national readmission database

Cardiovascular Diabetology

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Previous studies have reported a protective effect of type 2 diabetes on the incidence and progression of aortic aneurysms. We investigated whether this protective effect extends to aortic dissections.

Aortic

Aortic Diabetes Aneurysm Hospital

Alternative access in transcatheter aortic valve replacement—an updated focused review

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Aortic Stenosis (AS) is a common condition with an estimated pooled prevalence of all AS in the elderly population at around 12.4%, with that of severe AS estimated to be around 3.4%. In the past, surgical aortic valve replacement was the primary treatment option for severe AS for decades.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic TAVR Peripheral Arterial Disease

Almost 50% of Patients Under 60 Years Choose TAVR Over Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement with Worse Outcomes

DAIC

JANUARY 29, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 01/29/2024 - 14:24 January 29, 2024 — Despite national guidelines recommending surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients under age 65 with severe aortic stenosis , many hospitals are still opting for a nonsurgical approach in patients under 60—possibly with poorer survival rates.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve TAVR Aortic Outcomes

Lipoprotein(a) and Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis Progression

JAMA Cardiology

JULY 16, 2024

This meta-analysis evaluates lipoprotein(a) concentrations and hemodynamic progression in patients with aortic stenosis.

Stenosis

Stenosis Aortic valve Aortic

Use of Anticoagulant Drug after Aortic Valve Replacement Lowers Mortality Risk, Mayo Clinic Study Finds

DAIC

DECEMBER 12, 2023

milla1cf Tue, 12/12/2023 - 07:00 December 12, 2023 — Patients who received the anticoagulant drug warfarin after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement had lower incidence of mortality and a decreased risk of blood clots, according to a retrospective study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Blood Clot Medicare

Systematic review and meta-analysis of early aortic valve replacement versus conservative therapy in patients with asymptomatic aortic valve stenosis with preserved left ventricle systolic function

Open Heart

JANUARY 8, 2024

Background A quarter of patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) were asymptomatic, and only a third of them survived at the end of 4 years. Only a select subset of these patients was recommended for aortic valve replacement (AVR) by the current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Preserved Ejection Fraction Stenosis

Aortic Valve Calcification in Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis

American College of Cardiology

MAY 24, 2024

What is the relationship between aortic valve calcification (AVC) and aortic stenosis (AS) severity in patients with suspected low-flow low-gradient AS?

Aortic valve Aortic Stenosis Article

Dedicated trial in women demonstrates the superiority of transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was superior to surgical aortic valve replacement for reducing death, stroke or rehospitalization in women with severe aortic stenosis, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2024.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Stenosis Research

Case Report: Surgical treatment of type B aortic dissection in an adult with double aortic arch

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 5, 2024

BackgroundDouble aortic arch (DAA) with type B aortic dissection in adults is a rare aortic vascular disease. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) indicated a double aortic arch anomaly with localized dissection of the descending aorta.

Aortic

Aortic Chest Pain Stents Stent

Reinterventions After TAVR or SAVR for Severe Aortic Stenosis

American College of Cardiology

APRIL 22, 2024

What is the 5-year incidence of valve reintervention after self-expanding CoreValve/Evolut transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) versus surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR)?

TAVR

TAVR Aortic Aortic valve Stenosis

Computed Tomography Evaluation of Native Aortic Stenosis Beyond Calcification Score

American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Echocardiography remains the principal imaging modality for detection and diagnosis of aortic stenosis (AS), as well as for grading of severity.

Stenosis

Stenosis Aortic Article

Osteosarcopenia and Mortality in Older Adults Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

JAMA Cardiology

MAY 14, 2024

This cohort study examines whether there is an association between osteosarcopenia and adverse outcomes, such as increased risk of mortality, in older adults following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic TAVR Outcomes

Acute chest pain and ST Elevation. CT done to look for aortic dissection.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 9, 2024

Due to the chest pain radiating into the patient's back, the ER physician ordered CTA chest to rule out aortic dissection. But seeing them all together is more suggestive that pericarditis could be possible. While awaiting the results of the CT, the physician called cardiology.

Chest Pain

Chest Pain Pericarditis Aortic Echocardiogram

Impact of aortic and pulmonary artery wall histology on radicular dilatation during the Ross procedure

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In our study, we aim to explore the structural differences between the aortic root and the pulmonary artery to better understand the process of pulmonary autograft dilatation during the Ross procedure.

Pulmonary

Pulmonary Aortic Research

Aortic valve replacement in a bicuspid aortic valve patient followed by reoperation for ascending aorta rupture: a case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), the most common congenital cardiac anomaly, predisposes individuals to aortic stenosis and regurgitation due to valve degeneration. In the sixth postoperative year, she was readmitted due to ascending aorta rupture, resulting in blood entering the right atrium and causing acute right heart failure.

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Bicuspid/Mitral Aortic Stenosis

Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) enabled the percutaneous closure of a severely calcified paravalvular leak regurgitation following implantation of a self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve: a case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Background Closure of paravalvular leak (PVL) regurgitation after self-expandable (SE) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) may be more challenging than after balloon-expandable (BE) valve implantation. MN, USA).

Aortic valve

Aortic valve Aortic Atrial Fibrillation Heart Failure

Swift intervention with early surgery aids elderly heart patients with aortic stenosis, finds study

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Until now, patients with aortic stenosis—a narrowing of one of the heart's main valves—have had to wait until symptoms become severe before undergoing valve replacement.

Stenosis

Stenosis Aortic Chest Pain

Growth of the Neo-Aortic Root and Prognosis of TGA

American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

What are the risk factors and characteristics of aortic growth after the arterial switch operation (ASO) for dextro-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA)?

Aortic

Aortic Risk Factors Article

A wolf in sheep's clothing—aortic stenosis and cardiac amyloidosis: “RAISE”ing awareness in clinical practice

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This concept should be applied when managing older patients with severe aortic stenosis. Although left ventricular wall hypertrophy is expected in patients with aortic stenosis, it should not be assumed that this is caused only by aortic stenosis.

Stenosis

Stenosis Aortic TAVR Aortic valve

Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Named President of the Heart Valve Society

DAIC

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Photo courtesy of Mount Sinai Health System milla1cf Thu, 02/22/2024 - 13:47 February 22, 2024 — Ismail El-Hamamsy , MD, PhD, Director of Aortic Surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System and the Mount Sinai Randall B. The aortic valve controls blood flow from the heart into the aorta, the main artery that feeds blood to most of the body.

Heart Valves

Heart Valves Aortic valve Aortic Sudden Cardiac Death

Aortic Stenosis, Heart Failure, and Aortic Valve Replacement

TAVI Matches SAVR in Lower Risk Aortic Valve Patients: 10 year outcomes

Major Win for Preemptive TAVR in Symptomless Aortic Stenosis

Smidt Heart Institute Opens Aortic Surveillance Clinic

Abbott Announces First Procedures in ENVISION Trial of Navitor TAVI System to Treat Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis

Heart-Valve-Surgery.Com and Medtronic Launch Novel "Aortic Stenosis Patient Activation Platform" to Empower Patients

FDA Announces Teleflex/Arrow International Recall Arrow FiberOptix and UltraFlex Intra-Aortic Balloon (IAB) Catheter Kits

Medtronic Announces FDA Approval of Newest-generation Evolut TAVR System for Treatment of Symptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis

Rare genetic variants linked to bicuspid aortic valve disease in young adults identified

Sarcopenia and aortic valve disease

New Study Suggests that Amyloid Contributes to Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Development

Unstable 'fluttering' predicts aortic aneurysm with 98% accuracy

A Multimodal Video-Based AI Biomarker for Aortic Stenosis Development and Progression

Is Cardiology Overtreating Aortic Stenosis? with Linda Gillam, MD, MPH

Diabetes does not increase in-hospital or short-term mortality in patients undergoing surgical repair for type A aortic dissection: insight from the national readmission database

Alternative access in transcatheter aortic valve replacement—an updated focused review

Almost 50% of Patients Under 60 Years Choose TAVR Over Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement with Worse Outcomes

Lipoprotein(a) and Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis Progression

Use of Anticoagulant Drug after Aortic Valve Replacement Lowers Mortality Risk, Mayo Clinic Study Finds

Systematic review and meta-analysis of early aortic valve replacement versus conservative therapy in patients with asymptomatic aortic valve stenosis with preserved left ventricle systolic function

Aortic Valve Calcification in Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis

Routine Protamine Administration for Bleeding in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Latin Heart Rounds: Rounds on a Patient with Prosthetic Aortic Endocarditis

Simona Zannetti, MD, Returns to Lead Medtronic Aortic Business

Androgen aggravates aortic aneurysms via suppression of PD-1 in mice

Obstructive sleep apnea may increase risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Midterm outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with active cancer

Aortic Coarctation

Coarctation of Aorta and Ascending Aortic Aneurysm

Prognostic impact of the metabolic syndrome and its components in acute type a aortic dissection after surgery: a retrospective study

Aortic Valve ReplAcemenT versus Conservative Treatment in Asymptomatic SeveRe Aortic Stenosis

Dedicated trial in women demonstrates the superiority of transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement

Case Report: Surgical treatment of type B aortic dissection in an adult with double aortic arch

Reinterventions After TAVR or SAVR for Severe Aortic Stenosis

Computed Tomography Evaluation of Native Aortic Stenosis Beyond Calcification Score

Osteosarcopenia and Mortality in Older Adults Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Acute chest pain and ST Elevation. CT done to look for aortic dissection.

Impact of aortic and pulmonary artery wall histology on radicular dilatation during the Ross procedure

Aortic valve replacement in a bicuspid aortic valve patient followed by reoperation for ascending aorta rupture: a case report

Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) enabled the percutaneous closure of a severely calcified paravalvular leak regurgitation following implantation of a self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve: a case report

Swift intervention with early surgery aids elderly heart patients with aortic stenosis, finds study

Growth of the Neo-Aortic Root and Prognosis of TGA

A wolf in sheep's clothing—aortic stenosis and cardiac amyloidosis: “RAISE”ing awareness in clinical practice

Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Named President of the Heart Valve Society

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