Current Minimal-Invasive and Transcatheter Treatment Developments in Heart Valve Disease
A special issue of Hearts (ISSN 2673-3846).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2022) | Viewed by 412
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heart and lung transplantation; aortic valve surgery/experimental; biofluiddynamics/flow simulation; minimal invasive (video-assisted) valve surgery; endovascular aortic therapy; transcatheter heart valve implantation (aortic, mitral)
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Interests: acute coronary syndromes; cardiac biomarker research; ischemia/reperfusion injury research; cardio-protection and conditioning; coronary artery bypass grafting; minimal invasive valve surgery; aortic valve surgery; mitral and tricuspid valve repair; transcatheter and endovascular techniques; outcome research; beating heart surgery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Hearts focuses on minimally invasive and transcatheter-based technologies in the treatment of structural heart diseases.
It is a real pleasure to be the guest editor of this Special Issue of Hearts. Over the last 15 years, minimally invasive therapies and concepts have been adopted in the cardiovascular field. This was mainly driven by the introduction of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2002. Meanwhile, stent technologies have evolved, port-access surgery or percutaneous mitral valve repair has emerged, and transcatheter aortic repair (TEVAR) has been investigated. As a result, such techniques are routine in modern cardiology and cardiac surgery and are therefore widely used. Thanks to these innovative concepts, even younger and low-risk patients were currently treated by such minimally invasive technologies, which have been initially invented to treat older or high-risk patients.
For example, it is currently estimated that 250,000–300,000 transcatheter aortic valve implantations will be performed worldwide in 2021.
Therefore, the present Special Issue aims to provide the readers with an update in this field of treating structural heart diseases by new innovative concepts.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Wendt
Prof. Dr. Matthias Thielmann
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- transcatheter technologies
- sutureless aortic valve replacement
- minimal-invasive mitral and tricuspid valve procedures
- thoracic endovascular aortic repair
- long-term outcomes of new valve prostheses
- basic knowledge of minimal-invasive technologies
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