ALLMedicine™ Mitral Stenosis Center

Nov 25th, 2022 - As Percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy (PMBV) remains the keystone in treating mitral stenosis, we conducted this review to elucidate the cumulative frequency and predictors of complications following PMBV and their occurrence in various patient...

Nov 16th, 2022 - Transcatheter therapies for severe aortic and mitral stenosis: To stage or not to stage?|2022|Abdulla A,Jneid H,|diagnostic imaging,surgery,diagnostic imaging,surgery,adverse effects,surgery,surgery,

Nov 11th, 2022 - To evaluate mitral-aortic flow velocity integral ratio (MAVIR) as an echocardiographic tool to differentiate between severe and nonsevere mitral regurgitation (MR), compared with regurgitant volume (RVol) and effective regurgitant orifice area (ER...

Nov 7th, 2022 - In a 47-year-old lady, planned for redo percutaneous mitral commissurotomy for recurrent mitral valve stenosis, there was incidental detection of splitting of right coronary artery and direct origin and shepherd's crook course of the conal artery....

Oct 20th, 2022 - Effect of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) using MitraClip in patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) on left atrial (LA) kinetic energy (LAKE), an index of LA work, and LA strain, a measure of LA performance, have not been well defined. P...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Non-Inferiority Trial of rivaroxaban versus VKAs: 4,500 patients Inclusion Criteria: RVHD diagnosed by echocardiography at any time prior to enrollment Age ≥18 Increased risk of stroke by any of the following CHA2DS2-VASc score ≥ 2 OR Moderate/Sev...

Sep 21st, 2022 - This is a multicenter prospective observational study conducted in French medico-surgical sites. The Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy (PMC) is the standard treatment for Mitral stenosis (MS) in patients with rheumatic favorable characteristics. ...

Sep 14th, 2022 - Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are generally recommended as 1st line therapy for oral anticoagulant in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). But, the efficacy and safety of NOAC in AF patients with prosthetic mechanical hea...

Jul 5th, 2022 - This is a single-centre, prospective study to determine the correlation and comparative thresholds between NT ProBNP (Roche) and BNP (Abbott) tests. This will involve simultaneous serum sampling for both BNP and NT ProBNP at pre-surgical screening...

May 13th, 2022 - Functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) was defined as TR occurring secondary to left heart, especially mitral valve stenosis or pulmonary disease. Previous study reported that about 30% - 50% of patients with significant mitral stenosis developed...

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 ...