ALLMedicine™ Mitral Stenosis Center

Mar 9th, 2023 - To enlighten preprocedural risk factors of mitral valve restenosis in a large, single-center cohort of patients submitted to percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy (PMBC) for the treatment of mitral stenosis (MS) secondary to rheumatic heart d...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Among masses involving the mitral valve and annulus, caseous calcification of the mitral annulus (CCMA) is a rare disease. CCMA accounts for .63% of all mitral annular calcification (MAC) cases. The pathophysiology is still unknown. The correct di...

Mar 1st, 2023 - Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are widely used as prophylaxis against ischaemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and have replaced vitamin K antagonists (VKA) in many case. Compared to the latter they have demonstrated reduce...

Feb 15th, 2023 - Valvular heart disease (VHD), a subclass of structural heart disease (SHD), is a major cause of mortality and reduced quality of life for tens of millions of patients worldwide. Detecting VHD early allows the disease to be carefully monitored so t...

Feb 15th, 2023 - Approach Considerations Careful evaluation of the patient's history and physical examination (including signs of congestion, such as jugular venous distention) can provide important information about the underlying cardiac abnormality in heart fai...

Nov 26th, 2022 - Acute rheumatic fever and its chronic sequela, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), pose major health problems globally, and remain the most common cardiovascular disease in children and young people worldwide. Echocardiography is the most important dia...

Mar 1st, 2023 - Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are widely used as prophylaxis against ischaemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and have replaced vitamin K antagonists (VKA) in many case. Compared to the latter they have demonstrated reduce...

Feb 15th, 2023 - Valvular heart disease (VHD), a subclass of structural heart disease (SHD), is a major cause of mortality and reduced quality of life for tens of millions of patients worldwide. Detecting VHD early allows the disease to be carefully monitored so t...

Jan 30th, 2023 - Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), are currently recognized as the first-line treatment of AF and VTE in most clinical scenarios, distinguished by their short half-life, fast onset of action, fewer medication interactions, rare food interactions,...

Jan 11th, 2023 - This project is a 5 years prospective,observational,longitudinal registration study on clinical surgical and interventional treatment of structural heart disease.Firstly,patients with structural heart disease, whom received surgical,interventional...

Dec 14th, 2022 - This retrospective nationwide cohort study used administrative claims data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and the combined health check-up database of the National Health Insurance Corporation between 2013 and 2020. The i...

Aug 28th, 2022 - Contrary to expectations, vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) reduced the risk for ischemic stroke and death compared with the factor Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Janssen) in patients with rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation, in the INV...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Depression is associated with a significantly increased cumulative incidence of, and risk for, atrial fibrillation (AF), new research suggests. In a cohort study of more than five million adults, the cumulative incidence of new-onset AF was double...

Sep 13th, 2021 - An Alabama man had a cardiac arrest and died while emergency department staff called dozens of hospitals in search of an available ICU bed. (Newsweek) Here's one way to deliver bystander CPR and basic life support training to the public during the...

Apr 19th, 2021 - Patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) who were left with high gradients after a MitraClip procedure were not inherently at a disadvantage in their subsequent clinical outcomes, according to a COAPT analysis. MitraClip-treated trial par...

Mar 19th, 2021 - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a draft guideline on the management of heart valve disease in adults. Here is a summary of the key recommendations: Referral Consider echocardiogram for adults with murmur ...