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Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Named President of the Heart Valve Society

DAIC

Griepp , MD Professor in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , was named as the new President of the Heart Valve Society ( HVS ) at the 2024 HVS Annual Meeting on Wednesday, February 21, in Boston.

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Patients Who Received Ross Procedure Demonstrate Excellent Survival Rates after 20 Years

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Adult Cardiac

Shettys team followed 252 patients who underwent the Ross procedure, a heart valve replacement operation commonly used to treat younger patients with severe aortic valve disease. Three patients underwent the Ross-Konno procedure, in which the left-sided outflow root is enlarged to fit the pulmonary autograft. at 20 years.

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Autus Valve | The expandable artificial heart valve

Wellnest

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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Xeltis Receives IDE Approval from FDA for Initiation of US Pivotal Trial for aXess, its Restorative Vascular Access Conduit

DAIC

Xeltis synthetic restorative pulmonary heart valve evolves into a fully functioning, natural heart valve through colonization by the patient’s own tissue.

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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

MIBHS

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) Persistent high blood pressure forces the heart to work harder to pump blood. Over time, this additional strain causes the heart muscle to thicken, enlarging the heart. Antiarrhythmics to help manage abnormal heart rhythms.

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Leaky Heart Valves

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

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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Optimizing percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation with patient-specific 3D-printed pulmonary artery models and hemodynamic assessment

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) has emerged as a less invasive alternative for treating severe pulmonary regurgitation after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair in patients with a native right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT).