Five-Week Use of a Monopivot Centrifugal Blood Pump as a Right Ventricular Assist Device in Severe Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Right heart failure is a critical complication in patients requiring mechanical ventricular support. However, it is often difficult to provide adequate right ventricular support in the acute phase.
Autologous Bone Marrow Concentrate: Review and Application of a Novel Intra-Articular Orthobiologic for Cartilage Disease
The potential of cell-based orthobiologic injection therapies (pertaining to therapeutic injectables that aim to restore the biologic environment and/or structural components of diseased or damaged musculoskeletal tissue) is of tremendous interest for younger, more active patients, and is even more appealing in that such therapy can be delivered at point-of-care in the clinic during an office visit.
Kaiser Permanente Implant Registries Benefit Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Cost-Effectiveness
The registries enhance patient safety by providing a variety of clinical decision tools such as risk calculators, quality reports, risk-adjustedmedical center reports, summaries of surgeon data, and infection control reports to registry stakeholders.
Will Catheter Interventions Replace Surgery for Valve Abnormalities
This review aims to summarize the current state-of-the-art for transcatheter valve replacement (TVR) in congenital heart disease (CHD); the expanding indications for TVR; and the technological obstacles to optimizing TVR.
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis
A systematic review was conducted using five electronic databases, identifying all relevant studies with comparative data on TAVI versus AVR.
Incidence and Effect of Acute Kidney Injury After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Using the New Valve Academic Research Consortium Criteria
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with a poor prognosis after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). A paucity of data exists regarding the incidence and effect of AKI after TAVR using the new recommended Valve Academic Research Consortium criteria.
High Technology in Medicine: Lessons from Cardiovascular Innovations and Future Perspective
Four decades of innovations in the field of interventional cardiology are presented as an example for the great growth of high technology in medicine, side by side with the development of general technology and science.
Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Increased recognition of advantages, over the last decade, of minimizing surgical trauma by operating through smaller incisions and its direct impact on reduced postoperative pain, quicker recovery, improved cosmesis and earlier return to work has spurred the minimally invasive cardiac surgical revolution.
Two-Year Outcomes after Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement
The Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) trial showed that among high-risk patients with aortic stenosis, the 1-year survival rates are similar with transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) and surgical replacement.
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR): Access Planning and Strategies
The present review examines our current access planning and strategies for TAVR.
Complications at the Time of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) improves the prognosis of patients with severe aortic stenosis who are deemed too high risk for surgical valve replacement.
Patient Radiation Exposure During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedures
We aimed to describe patient radiation utilization during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) on a series of consecutive patients during this study.