Current Advances in Structural Heart Interventions

Dear Colleagues,

Structural heart interventions are an expanding subspecialty of interventional cardiology that include any transcatheter noncoronary cardiovascular interventions. Imaging, mainly echocardiography and CT scans, are essential in this field. During the last two decades, the transcatheter approach for valvulopathy treatment has been developing at a fast pace, with options now available for all four valves. Randomized data show the benefit of patent foramen ovale closure in the context of a paradoxical stroke, but there are still unanswered questions. Similarly, growing experience and data on left appendage closure also show the benefit of left appendage closure, but continuous efforts are needed to reduce the unresolved issues.

The scope of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of the latest data in structural heart interventions. Preprocedural planning and assessment, imaging guidance during the procedure, and postprocedural management are of great interest in order to improve the outcomes of and provide the best lifetime management for these patients.

We encourage authors to submit an original article or a state-of-the art review to this Special Issue.

Dr. Stéphane Noble
Dr. Hajo Müller
Guest Editors

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