Findings of prosthetic valve endocarditis in the balloon-expandable trans-catheter aortic valve: review of the literature and tips of management - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Source : https://cardiothoracicsurgery.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13019-021-01609-5
Prosthetic valve endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a rare complication associated with a high mortality rate. Nonetheless, the rapid expansion of TAVI in recent years has proportionally...
Imaging for Native Mitral Valve Surgical and Transcatheter Interventions - PubMed
Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33413881/
There has been rapid progress in transcatheter therapies for mitral regurgitation. These developments have elevated the need for the imager to have a core understanding of the functional mitral valve...
Echocardiography and EuroSCORE II for the stratification of low-gradient severe aortic stenosis and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction - The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
Source : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10554-021-02373-2
The purpose of this study was to explore the utility of echocardiography and the EuroSCORE II in stratifying patients with low-gradient severe aortic stenosis (LG SAS) and preserved left ventricular...
Incremental value of P-wave indices for predicting left atrial dysfunction in patients with primary mitral regurgitation using speckle tracking echocardiography - The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
Source : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10554-021-02372-3
The correlation of P wave indices on surface ECG and phasic LA dysfunction in patients with significant primary mitral regurgitation (MR) due to the adverse LA adaptive structural and functional...