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Highlights of ACC 2024

Cardiology Update

The primary endpoint was a composite of all-cause mortality, left ventricular assist device (LVAD)/heart transplantation, HF hospitalizations, worsening HF, and KCCQ score changes. The primary non-inferiority endpoint was MACCE (a composite of cardiac death, MI, ischaemic stroke, stent thrombosis, or target vessel revascularisation).

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The Management of Chronic Disease

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Other interventions that can help are devices known as left ventricular assist devices which can mechanically augment the pumping function of the heart and in the most severe cases, there is even the option of heart transplantation which whilst a huge undertaking can completely change a person’s life.

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Hunter Mehaffey Aortic Annular Enlargement in the Elderly: Short and Long-Term Outcomes in the United States The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2021 Shinichi Fukuhara Surgical Explant of Transcatheter Aortic Bioprosthesis: Results and Clinical Implications from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Database Analysis Circulation December (..)

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Hunter Mehaffey 1 Aortic Annular Enlargement in the Elderly: Short and Long-Term Outcomes in the United States The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2021 Shinichi Fukuhara 2 Surgical Explant of Transcatheter Aortic Bioprosthesis: Results and Clinical Implications from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Database Analysis Circulation December (..)