Dr Andreas Rück is the head of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) program at Karolinska University Hospital – Stockholm, Sweden and the chairman of the Swedish Percutaneous Valve Registry (a registry within the Swedish Heart Registries SWEDEHEART). He is member of the steering group of SWEDEHEART and of the Working group for PCI and Valve Interventions within the Swedish Society…
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Author(s):
Sunil Kapur,
Moussa Mansour
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, affecting more than three million Americans.1 The management of AF revolves around the alleviation of symptoms related to an accelerated and irregular ventricular response, and the prevention of cardioembolism, notably stroke. In patients with AF, there is a fivefold increased incidence of embolic stroke.2 The prevention of systemic…
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Dr Mayra Guerrero is a board-certified Interventional Cardiologist with special interest in structural heart interventions, particularly non-surgical heart valve repair and replacement. Her clinical expertise includes percutaneous coronary artery revascularization and percutaneous treatment of structural heart disease. Her main research interest is the development of transcatheter mitral valve…
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Author(s):
Horst Sievert
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6 years ago
In this video, Dr Horst Sievert discusses the trial evidence to support the use of PFO closure devices.
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Author(s):
Nicolas M Van Mieghem
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6 years ago
In this video, Dr Nicolas Van Mieghem discusses the question; 'are we ready to be doing TAVR in low risk patients?'.
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