A Mansfield 20 mm x 5.5 cm balloon was inflated twice and the post-valvuloplasty gradient was 31 mm Hg and the aortic valve area was 0.82 cm2.

Successful Acute Valve-in-Valve Implantation Using Evolut FX Transcatheter Valve in a Failed Non-Calcified Stentless Subcoronary Toronto (SJM) Valve With Severe Aortic Regurgitation Receive the the ...

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Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) was first developed in the 1960s. The procedure rapidly became first-line therapy for the management of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS). Concurrently, ...

A study is reported of an annual follow-up over a 15- to 20-year period of the survivors of the first 1,000 patients undergoing closed mitral valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. In addition to a report ...

Unfortunately, balloon valvuloplasty suffers from exceedingly high restenosis rates with 50%-75% of patients being symptomatic within 6 months. [25] Furthermore, many centers report procedural ...

Objective To assess the cost-effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) compared with medical management in patients with severe aortic stenosis who are ineligible for ...

ABSTRACT Introduction: The clinical significance of new-onset left bundle branch block (LBBB) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remains controversial. In the presented study, we ...

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