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The PROTECTED TAVR study: Cerebral embolic protection during transcatheter aortic valve replacement
18 Sep 2022
Jonathan Curio provides his take on the PROTECTED TAVR study which was presented by Samir R. Kapadia at TCT 2022. The aim was to evaluate whether TAVR with cerebral embolic protection would reduce the rate of clinical stroke in transfemoral TAVR.
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Iatrogenic atrial septal defects following transcatheter mitral valve repair and implications of interventional closures
21 Dec 2021
The authors investigated whether iatrogenic atrial septal defect closure post-transcatheter mitral valve edge-to-edge repair is superior to conservative therapy, and whether outcomes (death/heart failure hospitalization) differ between patients with and without an iASD post-TMVR.
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STEMI and COVID-19: when two potential killers join up
11 Nov 2020
Is COVID responsible for myocardial injury (including STEMI) or is it an innocent bystander? View this case of a male patient, 70+ years with clear COVID symptoms for several days, presenting with chest pain starting about 3h before admission. Past history: permanent Afib on Eliquis.
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