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Columbia Cardiology Launches New Mitral & Tricuspid Center

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s Division of Cardiology has announced its launch of the Mitral & Tricuspid Center. Kodali, MD, pictured here, is one of the members of its leadership team, and director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center at CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Providing State-of-the-Art Medtronic APOLLO Clinical Trial Treating Heart Valve Disease

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Many patients with symptoms of mitral regurgitation are not candidates for open heart surgery due to their advanced age or competing comorbidities, nor are they candidates for the only alternative, the MitraClip device. Your heart has four valves that move blood in and out of its four chambers.

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Cardiologists publish case series study on heart valve procedure

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

However, larger prospective studies in high-risk population are needed to confirm the findings.

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Case Report: Rare cardiovascular characteristics of tuberous sclerosis complex with novel TSC2 variant

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The co-occurrence of a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) with TSC is exceedingly rare.Case summaryWe report the case of a 26-year-old woman with genetically confirmed TSC, harboring a novel pathogenic variant in the TSC2 gene. multi-system characteristics of TSC were also presented, affecting skin, brain, lung, kidney, and bone.

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Henry Ford Health Cardiologists Publish Case Series Study on Heart Valve Procedure

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These key takeaways from the research letter on IVL-facilitated valvuloplasty for severely calcified mitral valve stenosis are published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) Cardiovascular Interventions. an interventional cardiologist and structural heart disease expert at Henry Ford Health. “We

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Rheumatic heart valve disease: navigating the challenges of an overlooked autoimmune disorder

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This autoimmune condition arises from a complex continuum that begins with repeated Group A Streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis, leading to acute rheumatic fever (ARF) that eventually results in damage to the heart, mainly affecting the mitral valve.

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'Tootsie Roll' Introduced for Leaky Transcatheter Heart Valves

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(MedPage Today) -- Operators reported the initial success of a novel transcatheter technique for treating complex paravalvular leaks (PVLs) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) in.