Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A prototype of an expanding artificial heart valve could make a big dent in the number of surgeries that many kids born with congenital heart disease need.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

When a patient needs a new heart valve, the current mechanical and tissue replacements each have strengths and weaknesses. Dr. Hadi Mohammadi and his fellow researchers in the Heart Valve Performance Laboratory at UBC Okanagan are focused on developing the mechanical heart valves of the future.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Intrepid TMVR is a heart valve that is designed to help alleviate mitral regurgitation so that blood can flow through the heart in the intended direction,” said Matthew Saybolt , M.D., FACC, principal site investigator and medical director, Structural Heart Disease Program, Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Arizona, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas have the most top-ranked hospitals for heart valve replacement in the U.S., according to the WebMD Choice Awards.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 3, 2024

Findings from a published case series research letter by the Henry Ford Health Structural Heart Disease team show that severe mitral stenosis, due to a build-up of calcium deposits in the mitral valve common in elderly patients, can be safely and successfully treated using Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL)-enabled percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty. (..)

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

(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.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JUNE 26, 2024

The sheer scale of undiagnosed heart valve disease in our aging population has been revealed for the first time, thanks to new research led by the University of East Anglia.

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DAIC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Study investigators Drs. Pedro Engel-Gonzalez and Gennaro Giustino from Henry Ford Health.

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American College of Cardiology

JUNE 13, 2024

What are the outcomes of patients undergoing transcatheter heart valve (THV) explant in the setting of THV-associated infective endocarditis (IE)?

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

MARCH 13, 2024

During the Valve Forum, mentees will have the opportunity to engage in one-to-one meetings with their mentors. Questions Contact the secretariat of the 2024 Heart Valve Forum. Visit Event Home KTCVS-STS Asia Symposium on Valvular Heart Disease Adult Cardiac Surgeon Image Details coming soon!

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DAIC

JUNE 10, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 06/10/2024 - 17:58 June 10, 2024 — Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute has successfully completed the first commercial tricuspid clip procedure in the Carolinas, performed in May at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team. Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable.

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American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Research Highlights: Edoxaban, a medication taken orally to prevent blood clots from forming, was found to be as effective and safe for stroke and blood clot prevention in patients after heart valve replacement surgery as warfarin, the current.

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Circulation

AUGUST 25, 2024

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue 9 , Page 661-662, August 27, 2024.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 17, 2024

In guidelines issued by the American Society of Echocardiography and published online in the January issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, updated recommendations are presented for evaluating prosthetic valve function in patients with prosthetic heart valves (PHVs).

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A team of researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid has identified the molecular mechanisms that control the activity of genes involved in both the correct formation of the heart valves and the prevention of their subsequent calcification.

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DAIC

APRIL 25, 2024

According to Dr. Kendra Grubb , Surgical Director of the Emory Structural Heart & Valve Center , approximately 40%† of patients with aortic stenosis in the United States do not get treatment because their symptoms are often misdiagnosed or ignored2. To explore the TAVR Heart Team Finder, please click here.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Traditionally, patients with a failing heart valve were advised to return in six to 12 months, as physicians generally took a "wait and see" approach, but a new study suggests patients may benefit more if their valves are replaced immediately through a minimally invasive procedure.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

JUNE 22, 2023

Distinguished STS member surgeons will serve as mentors, providing invaluable guidance to young cardiac surgeons as they navigate their career paths.

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American Heart News - Heart News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Research Highlights: An analysis of death certificate data from 1999 to 2020 showed a decline in deaths related to infective endocarditis throughout most of the United States yet found an alarming increase of 2%-5% among adults ages 25-44. There was.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This qualitative study explores the perceived benefits and intervention-specific needs of patients who received expectation-focused intervention in the context of heart valve surgery. In addition, it explores potential barriers and adverse effects.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

People having surgery to repair tight or leaking heart valves may receive a pacemaker more often than necessary—leading to a greater risk for life-threatening complications, studies show.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

MAY 16, 2024

Although well-known for their thromboresistance, bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHV) require lifelong anti-thrombotic therapy. This must be associated with a certain level of thrombogenicity. Since both t.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Of those, 97 hospitals were recognized for delivering superior clinical outcomes in cardiac care for heart bypass surgery, coronary interventional procedures, heart attack treatment, heart failure treatment and heart valve surgery.

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BACKGROUND:A main obstacle in current valvular heart disease research is the lack of high-quality homogeneous functional heart valve cells. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-derived heart valve cells may help with this dilemma.

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Wellnest

AUGUST 8, 2023

In such scenarios, cardiologists’ primary form of treatment for children with coronary heart disease is a heart valve implant. Unfortunately, the traditional pulmonary valves have a fixed diameter that can’t match the size of the child’s heart over time.

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Med Page Today

JUNE 27, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Undiagnosed heart valve disease was highly prevalent in a large community study of otherwise healthy people recruited from primary care in the U.K., researchers found. There was a 28.2% prevalence of mild, moderate, or severe.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

OCTOBER 10, 2023

News STS Partnership on the Heart Valve Disease Forum in Seoul Garners Rave Reviews KCummings Tue, 10/10/2023 - 13:49 2 min read

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Know Your Heart

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Artificial Heart Valves Who needs artificial heart valves? The 4 heart valves work continuously to keep blood flowing to the lungs and to the body. Sometimes, disease may damage the heart valves so that they function poorly or stop working completely. When damaged valves can no longer [.]

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Open Heart

JANUARY 21, 2022

Objectives To describe the occurrence of significant pericardial effusion, and to investigate characteristics associated with pericardial effusion within three months following heart valve surgery. Data were gathered from The Western Denmark Heart Registry and electronic patient records. Being a man (HR 2.30, 95% CI 1.32

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 31, 2024

Replacement heart valves that grow inside the body are a step closer to reality following studies led by researchers at Imperial. The results are published in Communications Biology.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This study aims to compare the efficacy of the Age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index (ACCI) and the Elixhauser-Van Walraven Comorbidity Index (ECI-VW) in predicting mortality risk among patients undergoing h.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

APRIL 4, 2022

We are blessed with 4 heart valves – 2 on the left side which are known as the mitral and aortic valves and 2 on the right side – the tricuspid and pulmonary valves. If the patient is not symptomatic but if we see that the heart is beginning to weaken then again the valve needs fixing.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JANUARY 10, 2024

Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one, with a focus on a valve on the left side of the heart.

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DAIC

JUNE 7, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Fri, 06/07/2024 - 15:10 June 7, 2024 — Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the major heart valve disease that afflicts nearly 10 million patients globally with an annual mortality exceeding 100,000, and the numbers continue to rise.

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

JANUARY 22, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 23 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-00991-6 Heart valve replacement in newborn babies remains an unsolved problem because currently used heart valve implants do not grow.

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DAIC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Thu, 01/04/2024 - 11:04 January 4, 2024 — Laguna Tech USA , a privately-held medical technology company dedicated to innovations in structural heart solutions to broaden useability and applicability for patients, today announced that a record number five patients were successfully treated at a single center on the same day with (..)

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