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82-year-old Elberta Jenkins was the first patient to successfully undergo a brand-new procedure pioneered by Emory’s structural heart team. Previously, Jenkins had been told that she was out of options for her failing heart.
A transapical transcatheter mitral valve repair system was linked to extensive reduction in mitral regurgitation at 2 years in patients ineligible for surgery, researchers reported at TVT: The Structural Heart Summit. Martin B. Leon, MD, FACC, professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, director of Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care and director of the
Patent Ductus Arteriosus is a congenital defect of the heart where the fetal passage between pulmonary artery and aorta remains open and causes excess pulmonary blood flow.
New research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes examines the pilot phase of the American Heart Association quality improvement program Target: Aortic Stenosis™.
In patients with HF and severe secondary mitral regurgitation, transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair reduced mortality and HF hospitalization regardless of whether patients had malnutrition, new data from the COAPT trial show. Andrea Scotti, MD, a structural heart intervention fellow at Montefiore Medical Center, presented an analysis of patients from COAPT stratified by