Percutaneous Approaches to Valve Repair for Mitral Regurgitation
Feldman et al. Percutaneous Approaches to Valve Repair for Mitral Regurgitation. JACC 2014 Salerno et al. Preoperative evaluation before MitraClip®: present and future perspective. Future Cardiology 2014 Two great review articles on percutaneous mitral valve repair...
MitraClip procedure for the treatment of a pseudo-cleft in the posterior mitral leaflet
Link to Öztürk et al. EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging (Full text available free) Extract This case depicts a rare anatomical condition: an MV pseudo-cleft caused by severe tension on the posterior leaflet tip due to asymmetric left ventricular dilatation. 3D...
Strain balance of papillary muscles as a prerequisite for successful mitral valve repair in patients with mitral valve prolapse due to fibroelastic deficiency
Grapsa et al. 2015 Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging (Subscription or Institutional Access required) Abstract Aims: The aim of this study was to assess the papillary muscle strain as a contributor to recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) after mitral valve repair for...
New devices for TAVI: technologies and initial clinical experiences
Taramasso et al. have written a comprehensive review in Nature Reviews Cardiology of the new technologies and early results of the latest generation of transcatheter aortic valve implantation devices (subscription or institutional access required). Taramasso et al....
Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Implantation for Failed Surgical Bioprosthetic Valves
Below is a comprehensive review of performing transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation for a failed surgical bioprosthetic valves (open access). Gurvitch et aal. 2011 JACC Abstract When bioprosthetic cardiac valves fail, reoperative valve replacement carries a higher...
CSANZ/ANZSCTS operator & institutional requirements for a TAVI program
Attached is the Position Statement for the Operator and Institutional Requirements for a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) program by the Cardiology Society of Australia & New Zealand and the Australian & New Zealand Society of Cardiac &...
Post-repair TEE assessment – Mitral Conclave 2011
Link to interview A/Prof Gregory Fischer from Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY gives an interesting talk on intraoperative post-repair TOE assessment; what to look for and, most importantly, when to go back on cardiopulmonary bypass.
Current guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
Below are links to the two current guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease, the 2014 AHA/ACC guidelines and the 2012 ESC/EACTS guidelines (both available free). Nishimura RA, Otto CM, Bonow RO, Carabello BA, Erwin JP, Guyton RA, et...
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI)
The FORTIS transcatheter mitral valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA) is a self-expanding device implanted via a transapical approach that is currently undergoing first-in-man trials. Below is a link to the paper with the latest evidence on the device and a...
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