The introduction of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been a transformative step in the treatment of severe aortic stenosis. Patients who are ineligible or very high-risk for open surgery are now routinely treated with this less-invasive option.
Medical professional liability studies most often use aggregated data across all physicians in a specialty and lack data on those who were not sued.
Implantable pacemakers have existed for decades. Although numerous bells and whistles have been added, the essential components of pacemakers have remained unchanged.
Asymptomatic episodes of atrial fibrillation (AF) are often detected when interrogating implanted pacemakers or defibrillators.
During my final year of interventional cardiology training, a woman in her 60s was brought emergently to the cath lab in cardiogenic shock, with diffuse ST-segment elevations. She had undergone PCI of the LAD and RCA just over a week earlier at an outside hospital.
The advent of highly sensitive troponin assays has shown detectable levels in apparently healthy subjects. Persistently elevated levels (> 99% percentile) can be observed in patients with a variety of chronic diseases, including coronary artery disease (CAD), making the accurate diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) challenging.
