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Can We Treat Severe Residual Mitral Regurgitation after MitraClip without Surgery?

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Edge to edge with MitraClip was shown effective and safe, and its outcomes...

Physiological and Clinical Changes After Tricuspid Repair

After the recent announcement by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) green-lighting transcatheter aortic valve replacement...

The Most Read Articles of July in solaci website

1-Though Systolic BP Seems More Important, Diastolic BP Should Not Be Disregarded Systolic hypertension is more often associated...

Impact of Edge to Edge Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair

Reducing tricuspid regurgitation with transcatheter valve repair is associated to improved liver function, which is often ignored...

Surgery to Improve Survival in Isolated Tricuspid Regurgitation

Patients with isolated tricuspid regurgitation (i.e., who have no associated left-sided valve disease) are frequently treated conservatively....

Do NOACs Result in Any Benefit in TAVR?

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. The need for anticoagulation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is over 15%...

FDA Expands TAVR Indication to Low-Risk Patients

Both the self-expandable valve Evolut R and its direct competitor, balloon-expandable valve Sapien 3, received the authorization...

Dr. José Mangione Inaugurated as New SOLACI President

Dr. José Mangione, renowned Latin American interventional cardiologist of ample trajectory, is now in charge of the...