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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center Tops 5,000 TAVR Procedures

DAIC

Morristown Medical Center’s Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute’s structural heart program recently reported it has reached a significant milestone of performing over 5,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures, the first in New Jersey and among the first to accomplish this in the United States.

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Heart Valve Collaboratory Framework For Post-TAVR TVF Imaging

American College of Cardiology

The Heart Valve Collaboratory has proposed a framework to standardize best practices for using multimodality imaging in transcatheter valve failure (TVF) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), in a State-of-the-Art Review.

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Substantial Site-Level Variation in Pacemaker Implantation Rates Post TAVR

American College of Cardiology

Despite decreasing rates of permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) after TAVR, substantial site-level variation persists, suggesting the need for quality improvement initiatives like replicating best practices from high-performing sites and increased guideline-based education, according to a recent study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. (..)

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A NOTIONal truth : Surgical AVR deteriorates faster than TAVI, for some mysterious reasons!

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

Did the trial compared best practices of TAVI & SAVR ? The surprise however is, TAVI was superior to cardiac surgeons in multiple aspects.The mysterious finding is TAVI had less Structural valve dysfunction , and possibly low bio valvular failure (BVF), if Kaplan -Myer curve trend is little extrapolated.

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2023 STS Coding Workshop

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

The STS 2023 Coding Workshop: Best Practices for Cardiothoracic Surgery is a 2-day virtual event that will provide cardiothoracic surgery coders, surgeons, and all billing professionals with the latest coding and reimbursement updates affecting cardiothoracic surgical practices. Missed the event? STS Members receive a discount!