Balloon aortic valvuloplasty – Cardiology Basics
Balloon aortic valvuloplasty – Cardiology Basics
Balloon aortic valvuloplasty is enlargement of a narrowed aortic valve using balloon catheters. It is also known as balloon aortic valvotomy.
Balloon aortic valvuloplasty has significant risks and lesser benefits compared other procedures for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis like surgical valve replacement and transcatheter aortic valve implantation or TAVI. Hence it is often considered as a bridge treatment or palliative treatment.
Three important scenarios in which balloon aortic valvuloplasty or BAV is considered are: Bridge to decision, bridge to planned treatmen...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 22, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
PerQseal+ for Large Diameter Arterial Closure: Interview with Andrew Glass, CEO of Vivasure Medical
Vivasure Medical, a medtech company based in Galway, Ireland, has developed the PerQseal device, a synthetic implant designed to seal large bore blood vessel punctures. The implant has utility in a wide variety of transcatheter endovascular procedures, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR), and endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair (EVAR), and aims to significantly improve on current approaches to close large vessel punctures.
The implant is an intravascular patch that is applied to the puncture from inside the vessel and is fully absorbable. The patch does...
Source: Medgadget - May 26, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Exclusive Radiology Vascular Surgery Vivasure Source Type: blogs
Melania Trump Kidney Surgery
Although the editors of InsideSurgery.com are not participating in Melania Trump’s care, we have noted with interest news reports that she received a “kidney surgery” today at Walter Reed Hospital.
She reportedly received an embolization for a “benign” condition and will be hospitalized through the end of the week. Some thoughts on this development:
Embolizations are most commonly done through one of the main femoral or groin arteries and it does not require a large incision. Typically a large bore needle with a sheath is placed into the artery by an interventional radiologist and then under f...
Source: Inside Surgery - May 14, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Lisa Marcucci Tags: Uncategorized embolization Melania Trump kidney surgery Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 176
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 176th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 5 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Justin Morgenstern and, of cour...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 16, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Justin Morgenstern Tags: Cardiology Clinical Research Emergency Medicine Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 176
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 176th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 5 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Justin Morgenstern and Chris Ni...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 16, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Justin Morgenstern Tags: Cardiology Clinical Research Emergency Medicine Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Celt ACD Vascular Puncture Closure Device Coming to U.S.
Vasorum Ltd., an Irish Firm, won FDA approval to introduce its Celt ACD vascular closure device in the U.S. market. It’s already used in Europe to close arterial punctures following both diagnostic and interventional cath lab procedures. The device is inserted through the already positioned sheath at the end of the procedure, advanced through it, and when the handle is turned the distal tip morphs into a flat disk. Another disk is positioned on the outside, and the two work together to create hemostasis at the puncture site.
“With more than 20,000 patient implants to date in Europe, Celt ACD® has proven itsel...
Source: Medgadget - July 21, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Coronary Angiogram
Coronary angiography is an investigation in which iodine containing contrast is injected into the coronary artery and cine films or fluoroscopic video are recorded using X-ray equipment. Arterial puncture by the percutaneous technique is resorted to in most cases. The usual arteries used are the femoral and radial. Brachial or axillary artery puncture can also be used in case the former approaches are not available, but they are usually not preferred. Brachial artery can also be approached through a cut down instead of percutaneous puncture.
Left Coronary Angiogram in RAO Caudal View
LMCA: Left Main Coronary Artery
LAD:...
Source: Cardiophile MD - May 5, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Lessons from the first month of residency
Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
In this first month there is a lot I saw, learned and experienced. Love tops the list. I became an expert in arterial punctures as I did 4 to 5 of them each day in the floors. Each time I headed for an arterial puncture, many things automatically came to my mind: collect all of the required supplies, talk to and comfort the patient, cause as little pain as possible, don’t stick needle to self, dispose all the biohazard material appropriately and label and drop off the sample to lab.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage yo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Pramod Theetha Kariyanna, MD Tags: Education Hospital Residency Source Type: blogs
