An 18-year-old from Cacocum became the first patient in Holguín to undergo a microtia reconstructive surgery at the Octavio de la Concepción de la ...

An 80-year-old man has undergone a groundbreaking cardiac procedure at the Cardiocenter in Santiago de Cuba, marking an ...

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 ...

The valvuloplasty balloon is removed, the 10F sheath is placed back in the arteriotomy site, and the diagnostic catheter is advanced back into the left ventricle where simultaneous LV to aorta ...

Introduction: Cardiogenic shock (CS) with severe aortic stenosis (AS) is a drug-resistant hemodynamically unstable condition with high mortality. We report three cases of CS with severe AS that were ...

THERE have been many published reports dealing with the surgical management of aortic stenosis since Tuffier, in 1913, first attempted to correct this defect by invagination of the aortic wall and ...

Read more on how there is no evidence that balloon valvuloplasty alters the natural history of aortic stenosis, although no randomized study has been performed.

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), a minimally invasive procedure to alleviate aortic valve stenosis, commonly employs rapid ventricular pacing (RVP) for balloon stabilization. However, the repeated ...