Complications at the Time of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) improves the prognosis of patients with severe aortic stenosis who are deemed too high risk for surgical valve replacement.
Kaiser Permanente Implant Registries Benefit Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Cost-Effectiveness
The registries enhance patient safety by providing a variety of clinical decision tools such as risk calculators, quality reports, risk-adjustedmedical center reports, summaries of surgeon data, and infection control reports to registry stakeholders.
Will Catheter Interventions Replace Surgery for Valve Abnormalities
This review aims to summarize the current state-of-the-art for transcatheter valve replacement (TVR) in congenital heart disease (CHD); the expanding indications for TVR; and the technological obstacles to optimizing TVR.
A Systematic Review of Antifibrinolytics and Massive Injury
The coagulopathy induced by trauma is independently associated with mortality, increased transfusion requirements, multiple organ dysfunction, infections, increased intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, and costs.
Treatment of Knee Chondropathy with Platelet Rich Plasma. Preliminary Results at 6 Months of Follow-Up with Only One Injection
Recently, PRP have been used to treat early moderate chondropathies. Here we show the preliminary results of 30 patients affected by chondropathy of the knee after 6 months treated with a single intrarticular injection of PRP.
Five-Week Use of a Monopivot Centrifugal Blood Pump as a Right Ventricular Assist Device in Severe Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Right heart failure is a critical complication in patients requiring mechanical ventricular support. However, it is often difficult to provide adequate right ventricular support in the acute phase.
Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy: Inflammatory Molecules Involved in Tissue Healing
The biological properties of platelets has lead platelet rich plasma therapy (PRP) to be considered an innovative and promising approach that has been extended to many field of medicine, ranging from non-union defects, bone fractures, spinal fusion, bone implant and osteointegration, joint arthroplasty, to the treatment of several traumatic or degenerative pathologies of tendons, cartilage and ligaments.
Incidence and Effect of Acute Kidney Injury After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Using the New Valve Academic Research Consortium Criteria
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with a poor prognosis after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). A paucity of data exists regarding the incidence and effect of AKI after TAVR using the new recommended Valve Academic Research Consortium criteria.
Postmarket Surveillance of Medical Devices: Current Capabilities and Future Opportunities
Recalls of cardiac implantable electrical devices (CIEDs) currently impact hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide.
Autologous Bone Marrow Concentrate: Review and Application of a Novel Intra-Articular Orthobiologic for Cartilage Disease
The potential of cell-based orthobiologic injection therapies (pertaining to therapeutic injectables that aim to restore the biologic environment and/or structural components of diseased or damaged musculoskeletal tissue) is of tremendous interest for younger, more active patients, and is even more appealing in that such therapy can be delivered at point-of-care in the clinic during an office visit.
Two-Year Outcomes after Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement
The Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) trial showed that among high-risk patients with aortic stenosis, the 1-year survival rates are similar with transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) and surgical replacement.
Patient Radiation Exposure During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedures
We aimed to describe patient radiation utilization during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) on a series of consecutive patients during this study.