Augusto Pichard2014-08-07Director Innovation and Structural Heart Disease, Vice Chair, Medstar Heart Institute, Medstar Washington Hospital Center. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology),Georgetown University Medical School.
Moderate to severe mitral valve regurgitation (MR) continues is still a high prevalence condition with bad prognosis, particularly among the elderly with left ventricular...
Despite steady progress in secondary prevention and medical treatment optimization (OMT), acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains one of the leading causes of cardiovascular morbimortality....
Balloon post-dilation (BPD) during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) allows for the optimization of prosthesis expansion and the reduction of residual paravalvular aortic regurgitation....
