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Mitral Valve Repair in Patients with Cardiac Failure

The mitral valve is a complex apparatus dependent on left atrium and left ventricle functionality. Dilation of...

What to Do with Blood Pressure Levels Between 130/80 and 139/89 mmHg

The decision to be made with a treatment-free patient with systolic blood pressure over 160 mmHg or diastolic...

Aortic Stenosis with Normal Flow Low Gradient: Should We Intervene or Wait?

Symptomatic patients with <1 cm² aortic valve area will benefit from an intervention regardless parameters such as...

Ten Commandments of the European Hypertension Guidelines: Several “Sins Allowed” Compared with American Guidelines

These new hypertension guidelines (which were as long-awaited as the American ones, back then) finally emerged in...

TAVR Post-dilation Is Safe

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Numerous studies have shown that the presence of aortic regurgitation after TAVR is...

High-Sensitivity Troponins Turned All Events into Infarctions; the 4th Universal Definition Clarifies Things

Myocardial infarction or myocardial injury? The Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction (an update of the 2012...

Debris Captured by SENTINEL Devices Result Different across Different Valves

The idea behind this study is that debris can be captured in all patients during TAVR, even...

Surgical Redo Mitral Valve Replacement vs. Valve-in-Valve in Failed Bioprosthetic Valves

Despite their higher surgical risk, patients who underwent transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) presented 1-year mortality rates...