Structural heart disease (SHD) is a new field within cardiovascular medicine. Traditional imaging modalities fall short in supporting the needs of SHD interventions, as they have …
Introduction: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as an effective minimally-invasive alternative to surgical valve replacement in medium-to high-risk, elderly …
Introduction Guidelines advise ongoing follow-up of patients after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) to assess cardiovascular risk and manage future patient-specific …
Minimally invasive surgeries have numerous advantages, yet complications may arise from limited knowledge about the anatomical site targeted for the delivery of therapy …
Cardiovascular 3-dimensional printing refers to the fabrication of patients' specific cardiac anatomic replicas based on volumetric imaging data sets obtained by echocardiography …
P Xenofontos, R Zamani, M Akrami - Biomedical engineering online, 2022 - Springer
Background Recently, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been suggested as a less invasive treatment compared to surgical aortic valve replacement, for patients with …
Mitral interventions remain technically challenging owing to the anatomical complexity and heterogeneity of mitral pathologies. As such, multi-disciplinary pre-procedural planning …
G Marom, S Einav - Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heart valve diseases are common disorders with five million annual diagnoses being made in the United States alone. All heart valve disorders alter cardiac hemodynamic …
The left atrial appendage (LAA) is a complex structure with unknown physiologic function protruding from the main body of the left atrium. In patients with atrial fibrillation, the left …