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Reinterventions in patients with congenital aortic stenosis and a commissurotomy

Open Heart

Background In congenital aortic stenosis (CAS), commissurotomy is an option in patients not suitable to receive a valve prosthesis. However, there is often a need for future additional interventions on the aortic valve. The fate of the aortic valve is, however, essentially unknown.

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Telemedical management in patients waiting for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: the ResKriVer-TAVI study design

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Aims The majority of patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) planned for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) are elective outpatients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the time between the heart team’s decision and TAVI increased due to limited healthcare resources.

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Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mount Sinai Hospital Wins Highest Quality National Ratings from Society of Thoracic Surgeons

DAIC

It uses a three-star scale (3=better than expected, 2=as expected, 1=worse than expected) to rate institutions across five common cardiovascular procedures: coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG); aortic valve replacement (AVR); AVR and CABG; mitral valve replacement/repair (MVRR); and MVRR and CABG.

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Impact of Intensified Outpatient Follow-up on Rehospitalization after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Results from the HOSPITAVI Trial

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 1 February 2025 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Pernille Steen Bkke, Troels Hjsgaard Jrgensen, Gintautas Bieliauskas, Lars Sondergaard, Ole De Backer

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Time to TAVI: streamlining the pathway to treatment

Open Heart

Introduction Severe aortic stenosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The existing treatment pathway for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) traditionally relies on tertiary Heart Valve Centre workup. Methods The centre performing local workup implemented a novel TAVI referral pathway.

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Study: Robotic Arm Can be Used for Remote Echocardiograms

DAIC

In this study, the authors assessed the feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of a 5G cellular network and robotic arm-based remote echocardiographic system in an outpatient clinic based 20 kilometres away from Zhongshan Hospital. A total of 51 patients were enrolled from the outpatient cardiology clinic.

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Cardiac MR modelling of systolic and diastolic blood pressure

Open Heart

However, standard outpatient cardiovascular MR (CMR) imaging procedures do not typically include BP measurements prior to image acquisition. Aortic forward flow, body surface area and left ventricular mass index were associated with DBP. Multivariate linear regression analysis was applied to predict brachial BP.