STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE articles

ACC 2018 | Flu Vaccination Reduces Mortality in Heart Failure Hospitalizations

ACC 2018 | Flu Vaccination Reduces Mortality in Heart Failure Hospitalizations

Heart failure patients vaccinated against influenza are at a significantly lower risk of dying, both during flu season and outside of it. Patients with heart failure vaccinated had a 48% lower risk of death during influenza season and a 21% lower risk during the rest of the year. Dr. Fukuta, lead investigator in this study,

ACC 2018 | Echocardiographic Data Help Better Choose Patients for Patent Foramen Ovale Closure

A new randomized controlled trial of patients who underwent patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in cryptogenic stroke may provide certain morphological echocardiographic features that might allow us to better choose patients who would benefit more from PFO closure versus those for whom medical therapy would be more appropriate. Among patients with a recent cryptogenic stroke

NOTION: 5-Year Outcomes of TAVR vs. Surgery in Low-Risk Patients are Promising

At 5 years, there were no differences in all-cause death, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, or all of these combined between low-risk, elderly patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or conventional surgery. Taking into account reports from previous years, these results are not at all surprising. NOTION enrolled an all-comers population that was 70 years old

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