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Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 17, Issue 12

2014 12 - 4 articles

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Articles (4)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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Outcome of Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Ad Hoc Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Without Invasive Pre-Evaluation

  • Thomas Pilgrim,
  • Stefan Stortecky,
  • Katja Tiefenthaler,
  • Stephan Windecker,
  • Dik Heg,
  • Crochan O’Sullivan,
  • Steffen Gloekler,
  • Fabian Nietlispach,
  • Ahmed A. Khattab and
  • Peter Wenaweser
  • + 4 authors

17 December 2014

Aims: To investigate the feasibility and safety of TAVI without prior invasive assessment. Methods and Results: A total of 489 patients underwent TAVI for treatment of severe aortic stenosis between July 2007 and April 2012 and were included in a pro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
133 Views
7 Pages

Oesophageal Complications After Cardiac Interventions

  • Annetta Cummins and
  • Christoph Gubler

17 December 2014

Gastrointestinal complications after cardiac interventions are rare, but often troublesome. Gastrointestinal bleedings are associated with ischaemic conditions and antiplatelet drugs. Pseudo-obstruction of the intestine and ischaemic transmural lesio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
146 Views
10 Pages

17 December 2014

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusions (CTO) has been referred to as the “last frontier” in interventional cardiology. In recent years novel devices, refined imaging modalities and innovative techniques have increased s...

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