Cases in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Read & Share cases

Consider the case of a 67-year-old female patient with schizoaffective disorder and heart failure symptoms, who was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis with hostile calcified annulus and LVOT, and compare how you would have treated her with how she was actually treated.

A 73-year-old female with hypertension, obesity and dyslipidemia was admitted to our hospital due to progressive dyspnoea during effort and dizziness. At admission, echocardiography revealed aortic valve stenosis with normal LV-Function...

A 73-year-old male patient was referred for treatment of severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. This case describes the decision-making in performing TAVI with a self-expanding aortic valve in a patient with bicuspid aortic valve stenosis and peripheral arterial disease.

A 61-year-old man was admitted to the catheterization laboratory for anterior STEMI. Coronary angiography revealed a large thrombus burden in an ectatic and occluded LAD. How would you treat this challenging case? 

What would be your treatment strategy in this challenging case of a 78-year-old male patient with a failed surgical bioprosthetic valve implanted 17 years ago and complex coronary artery disease with chronic total occlusion of the right coronary artery?

With the progressive increasing usage of TAVI in younger patients with longer life expectancy, the way to manage a failed transcatheter aortic valve will become an important issue.What would be your treatment strategy in this challenging case of an 86-year-old female patient with a failed supra-annular...

A 72-year-old female who had previously undergone surgical aortic valve replacement (sAVR), presents with a one-year history of NYHA II to III symptoms, particularly progressive over the past 3 months amounting to shortness of breath on minimal exertion...

How would you treat this 62-year-old female patient with NYHA class III/IV symptoms, degeneration of mitral valve repair (with annuloplasty ring - 2008) with significant MR, and high surgical risk?

How would you treat this 54-year-old man with hypertension and non-insulin dependent diabetes who presents with severe erectile dysfunction since 2018?

This case has been accredited by EBAC with 1 CME credit

An 8-year-old boy with Tetralogy of Fallot underwent surgical correction with ventricular septal defect closure and transannular patch at the age of 16 months. PO was complicated by heart failure and sepsis. He now presents with mild tricuspid regurgitation...