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Valvular Aortic Valve

Very Encouraging Results for TAVR in Low-Risk Patients

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. About 12% of patients >75 years old have aortic stenosis. In 3%-4% of them, such...

TAVR and Pacemakers, New Strategies

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. TAVR has been shown beneficial and is constantly being advanced onto lower risk...

TAVR in Bicuspid Has the Same Results in Surgery at Hospital Level

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Bicuspid aortic stenosis patients (bicuspid AS) represent a small group and have not...

MitraClip in the Real World: Mid-Term Progress

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. The fact that the outcomes of edge-to-edge repair with MitraClip have improved, particularly...

The Real Impact of Peripheral Artery Disease in TAVR

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. The real incidence of peripheral artery (PAD) disease in TAVR remains unclear. Different...

ESC 2019 | How Benign Is Moderate Aortic Stenosis?

Data from a great Australian registry of nearly 250,000 people with a 5-year follow-up, presented at the...

ESC 2019 | MITRA-FR: 2-Year Outcomes of One of the Largest Studies on MitraClip

Negative one-year outcomes of Mitra-FR led to several discussions and hypothesis, especially after the COAPT was published...

Experts Reach Consensus on Post TAVR Pacemaker Indication

This new consensus published this week in J Am Coll Cardiol has provided us with an algorithm...