Heart BMJ

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a complex and progressive disorder characterised by elevated pulmonary artery pressure. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that has revolutionised the treatment of severe aortic stenosis (AS).

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

24: Joint American College of Cardiology/Journal of the American College of Cardiology Late-Breaking Clinical Trials (Session 402) Saturday, April 6 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

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DAIC

MARCH 10, 2025

Among Medtronic's Structural Heart and Aortic key data milestones,Dr. The presentation addressed the two-year results of the SMall Annuli Randomized To Evolut or SAPIENTrial, which evaluated a valve performance in individuals with aortic stenosiswith small aortic annulusin patients treated with either EvolutTAVR platform or SAPIENplatform.

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CardiacWire

JANUARY 24, 2024

CardioSignal has already developed digital biomarkers for AFib and heart failure, while more solutions could be on the way for aortic stenosis, coronary artery disease, and pulmonary artery hypertension.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

It was edited by Smith CASE : A 52-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension and COPD summoned EMS with complaints of chest pain, weakness and nausea. Look at the aortic outflow tract. Aortic angiogram did not reveal aortic dissection. What do you see? Answer below in the still shot.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:Distinguishing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) from other cardiomyopathies with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), such as hypertensive LVH, transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), and aortic stenosis (AS), is sometimes challenging. Of those, 5 proteins were selected as candidate proteins.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MARCH 21, 2024

So that is why we see straightening of left border, typically heard of in mitral stenosis with left atrial enlargement and mild pulmonary hypertension. When there is gross pulmonary hypertension, instead of these being straight over here, it will form a bulge over here.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

JANUARY 14, 2024

If the pulmonary anatomy is poor, there will be post repair right ventricular hypertension, which is deleterious and has long term seqeulae. Findings which are sought during an aortogram in tetralogy of Fallot include looking for aortic regurgitation, coronary anomalies, MAPCAs, patent ductus arteriosus and side of the aortic arch.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, CTA head and neck 4 days later demonstrated 90 percent stenosis of the mid left V2 at the C3‐4 level and a 75‐90 percent stenosis of the left mid V2 segment at the C5‐6 level (hard and soft plaque in these areas). He also had moderate stenosis of the right V4 segment.

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EMS 12-Lead

JULY 24, 2023

Category 2 : An increase in myocardial oxygen demand due to tachycardia, elevated ventricular afterload (BP or aortic stenosis), or increased wall stretch (admittedly this latter is more complicated) or a decrease in oxygen supply due to hypotension, anemia, hypoxia, or a combination of all of the above. Aortic Stenosis f.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Case submitted and written by Mazen El-Baba MD, with edits from Jesse McLaren and edits/comments by Smith and Grauer A 90-year old with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, presented with acute onset chest/epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. BP was 110 and oxygen saturation was normal.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 9, 2023

Submitted by Ali Khan MD and James Mantas MD, MS, written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s with history of diabetes, hypertension, and tobacco use presented to the ED with 24 hours of worsening left sided chest pain radiating to the back, characterized as squeezing and pinching, associated with shortness of breath.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The patient had no hypertension, no tachycardia, a normal hemoglobin, no drug use, no hypotension/shock, no murmur of aortic stenosis. We also looked at his aortic root by both parasternal and suprasternal views, and the aorta was normal.]

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EMS 12-Lead

MAY 20, 2022

There is ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of abnormal loading conditions, such as aortic stenosis, or hypertension, for example – of which the most common variant is Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy. As a brief review, HCM is a genetically inherited disorder that produces structural disarray in the myocardial cells.

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Open Heart

JANUARY 5, 2022

Objective Patients with low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis (LFLG AS) and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) are known to suffer from poor prognosis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). This study aimed to develop a simple score system for risk prediction in this vulnerable subset of patients.

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Open Heart

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Background Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is often associated with a concomitant aortopathy. However, few studies have evaluated the effect of the aortic valve (AV) phenotype on the rate of dilation of the aorta. Doppler echocardiography was performed annually to assess AS severity and measure ascending aorta (AA) dimensions.

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DAIC

APRIL 6, 2024

Natalie Bello, MD, MPH , director of Hypertension Research, will present “What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Addressing Hypertension in Women,” Monday, April 8, 12:45-1 p.m.

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DAIC

APRIL 1, 2024

“We are witnessing a paradigm shift in how valvular heart diseases are diagnosed and treated,” said Partho Sengupta , Henry Rutgers Professor of Cardiology and chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

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Ken Grauer, MD

JUNE 6, 2023

I've previously discussed the interesting correlation of a qR pattern in lead V1 in patients with RVH — as strongly suggesting associated pulmonary hypertension ( See ECG Blog #234 and Blog #248 ). The plan was to proceed as soon as possible with aortic valve replacement. Then there is the significant ST elevation we see in lead V1.

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Heart BMJ

JANUARY 29, 2024

Over the last decade, it has become increasingly clear that different mechanisms drive the development of native aortic stenosis. Most patients who develop native aortic stenosis have hypertension, and some have increased cholesterol.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

APRIL 2, 2025

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, Ahead of Print.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MARCH 29, 2024

One is ventricular septal defect, second is overriding aorta, third is pulmonary stenosis, usually right ventricular outflow tract stenosis and associated right ventricular hypertrophy. You can see the ventricular septal defect and aortic over ride. Pulmonary stenosis, which is usually right ventricular outflow tract stenosis.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today's case is a male in his 70s with hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus. Below is a still image with the red arrow indicating the subtotal LMCA stenosis. His wife contacted the ambulance service after the patient experienced an episode of loss of consciousness.

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DAIC

JUNE 19, 2024

The pipeline of algorithms likely to clear regulatory hurdles and enter the cardiac market over the next 12-18 months include those for Pulmonary Hypertension, Cardiac Amyloidosis, Diastolic dysfunction, and Hyperkalaemia.

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BoardVitals - Cardiovascular

MAY 1, 2017

While the first one may radiate to the axilla and base, but usually not into the neck, it does reflect both aortic outflow obstruction and mitral regurgitation in patients with a large gradient. On the other hand, the murmur in valvular aortic stenosis does not change substantially or decreases slightly following the Valsalva maneuver.

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

BACKGROUND:Recent guidelines redefined exercise pulmonary hypertension as a mean pulmonary artery pressure/cardiac output (mPAP/CO) slope >3 mm Hg·L−1·min−1. Peak aortic velocity (odds ratio [OR] per SD, 1.48;P=0.036), cm2underwent cardiopulmonary exercise testing with echocardiography. P=0.001), E/e’ at rest (OR per SD, 1.61;P=0.012),

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Lead Author Title Publication Date Jacob Raphael Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Pulmonary Complications: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2024 Joseph Sabik Multi-Arterial versus Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery: Ten Year Follow-up of One Million (..)

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

Program Designations Access and Publications (A&P) 1 Participant User File (PUF) 2 Task Force on Funded Research (TFR) 3 Special Projects 4 Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Lead Author Title Publication Date William Keeling 2 National Trends in Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery October 2023 Jake (..)

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Open Heart

AUGUST 16, 2023

Objective To characterise cardiac remodelling, exercise capacity and fibroinflammatory biomarkers in patients with aortic stenosis (AS) with and without diabetes, and assess the impact of diabetes on outcomes. vs 24.8%±2.4%, p=0.020), lower myocardial perfusion reserve (2.02±0.75

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

A 69 year old woman with a history of hypertension presented to the emergency department by EMS for evaluation of chest pain and shortness of breath. Smith : "decompensation" of aortic stenosis might have initiated this entire cascade. What "initiates" the aortic stenosis cascade? This was written by Hans Helseth.

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Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Right from the days we entered medical schools, severe mitral stenosis was defined by less than 1 cm² MVO by echocardiography. The bottom line is, we should not miss a functionally significant mitral stenosis, strictly adhering to the anatomical 1 cm² cut-off. There is something called low gradient severe MS (as in aortic stenosis).

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Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

APRIL 3, 2025

severe mitral stenosis, pulmonary hypertension, or cardiomyopathy), prolonged labor could strain the heart excessively, potentially leading to decompensation, heart failure, or arrhythmias. For women with significant heart disease (e.g., Evidence leans toward individualized decisions rather than a universal preference.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

42% of adults are considered obese , increasing their risk of diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular issues. Additionally, 10% of the global population suffers from chronic kidney disease , with diabetes and hypertension as significant risk factors. In the U.S.,

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2024

He carries the diagnoses hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes. No thoracic aortic hematoma, aneurysm or dissection. First obtuse marginal also had an 80% stenosis and was stented. He presented to the ED for evaluation chest pain. Pain was improved but not gone upon arrival. CT Angio Chest IMPRESSION 1.

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