Aortic Valve Replacement

When the aortic valve malfunctions or becomes worn with age, heart valve replacement surgery is often necessary to treat the condition. Cath Lab Digest explores the catheterization methods involved with aortic valve replacement. Feel free to browse through our articles below.

Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement Dr. O?Neill discusses his work with the Cribier-Edwards Percutaneous Aortic Heart Valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA), delivered on a balloon-expandable stainless steel stent.

Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Stent: The CoreValve ReValving? Procedure How did the percutaneous ReValving? System first come about? I am a former professor of heart surgery at Paris University. For 20 years, I did open heart surgeries for coronary bypasses and valve replacements. I figured out during valve replacement surgery that this procedure could be done without having to open the chest or the heart. I thought it should not be necessary for valve replacement patients, especially the elderly ones, to have to endure two months of recovery and another six months before returning to their normal lives.

Catheter-Induced Vasospasm: A constant confounder Not all angiographic narrowings are atherosclerotic lesions. Coronary arteries have vascular tone and change caliber depending on the patient?s presentation, environment and the level of circulating neurohumoral mediators producing vessel tone.

Clinical and Industry News s lifetime heart disease risk, not just short-term risk, according to updated American Heart Association guidelines. Current guidelines recommend the use of Gp IIb/IIIa inhibitors in certain patients with ACS undergoing an invasive strategy, either administered upstream prior to angiography in all patients or initiated in the catheterization laboratory selectively to patients undergoing PCI. The detailed solutions developed by a special Joint Commission Expert Roundtable focus on making ...

Magnetically Supported PCI: Success after failed surgery and conventional PCI Introduction Magnetically supported PCI is starting to deliver on its potential to improve and extend several aspects of percutaneous cardiac treatment. In particular, the ability to control tip direction more accurately and independently of bends or friction has allowed increased utilization. We present a patient in whom both surgery and previous conventional PCI failed to produce a satisfactory long-term result. The use of magnetic navigation allowed for successful revascularization of an extremely tortuous conduit, restoring blood supply to a large territory of myocardium.

Really, this Meeting is Different St.Luke's Medical Center's 4th Annual "Understanding Cardiovascular Disease" Really, this Meeting is Different St.Luke's Medical Center's 4th Annual "Understanding Cardiovascular Disease" Feature: Really, this Meeting is Different St.Luke's Medical Center's 4th Annual "Understanding Cardiovascular Disease" - Joe Glowacki, RN, MSN, NP, RCIS Four years ago, a group of cardiovascular nurses and technicians from St. Luke?s Medical Center Milwaukee came together to discuss the value of continuing education, the difficulty and expense of obtaining CEUs, and the benefits and...

Door-to-Balloon Time (DTB) ? Putting the Cath Lab?s Role in Perspective Three weeks after successfully treating a patient with an acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI), I received a letter from the hospital administration, offering ?congratulations on achieving a door-to-balloon (DTB) time of 58 minutes in the treatment of this patient.? The following week, I was chastised for being closer to 100 minutes for a ?similar? ST-elevation MI (STEMI) patient.