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Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement With Atrial Fixation for Treatment of Atrial Functional Mitral Regurgitation

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. At 30 days, 11 of 12 surviving patients had an available echocardiogram; mitral regurgitation severity was trace/none in 90.9% (10/11) and mild in 9.1% (1/11).CONCLUSIONS:The All-cause mortality at 30 days was 14% (2/14).

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Implications of Mitral Annular Calcification on Outcomes Following Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. with functional MR) who underwent an isolated, first-time intervention. with functional MR) who underwent an isolated, first-time intervention. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed 968 individuals (median age, 79 [interquartile range, 70–86] years; 60.0%

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Troponins, echocardiogram An echocardiogram showed inferobasilar hypokinesis, further supporting a diagnosis of regional ischemia , likely of the area supplied by the RCA. The biphasic T wave is consistent with recent reperfusion of an occluded coronary artery supplying the inferior region. The initial troponin I was elevated at 0.75

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A Tough ECG, But Learn From It!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

On echocardiogram, there was a 40% ejection fraction with anterior wall motion abnormality. His ECG was repeated at this point: This shows a well developed anterior STEMI. The cath lab was activated and an LAD occlusion was opened. The peak troponin I was over 100. and R-wave amplitude in V4 of 3 mm, the result was = 24.5, the result is 23.9,

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Occlusion myocardial infarction is a clinical diagnosis

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Her contrast enhanced echocardiogram is shown below in the parasternal short axis view. Immediate versus delayed invasive intervention for non-stemi patients. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions , 9 (6), 541–549. The patient suffered a large infarct. link] Milosevic, A., Vasiljevic-Pokrajcic, Z., Milasinovic, D.,

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Normal ACS care, everything by the book! But normal ACS care could be much better. This post explains everything.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Echocardiogram showed inferior hypokinesis. Summary of RIDDLE-NSTEMI: RIDDLE-NSTEMI, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions 2016 Limitations of conventional angiography: This patient was very lucky that the interventional cardiologist who responded to the cath lab activation is evidence based and thorough.

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