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Amol Moray, Proscovia M Mugaba, Chloe Joynt, Angela McBrien, Luke G Eckersley, Ernest Phillipos, Paula Holinski, Lindsay Ryerson, James Yashu Coe, Sujata Chandra, Billy Wong, Michele Derbyshire, Maria Lefebvre, Mohammed Al Aklabi, Lisa K Hornberger
BACKGROUND: Distances between delivery and cardiac services can make the care of fetuses with cardiac disease at risk of acute cardiorespiratory instability at birth a challenge. In 2013 we implemented a fetal echocardiography-based algorithm targeting fetuses considered high risk for acute cardiorespiratory instability at ≤2 hours of birth for delivery in our pediatric cardiac operating room of our children's hospital, and, herein, examine our experience. METHODS AND RESULTS: We reviewed maternal and postnatal medical records of all fetuses with cardiac disease encountered January 2013 to March 2022 considered high risk for acute cardiorespiratory instability...
March 19, 2024: Journal of the American Heart Association
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katya Lucarelli, Tommaso Acquaviva, Paolo Ferrero, Emanuela De Cillis, Vito Casamassima, Eloisa Basile, Erasmo Cacciapaglia, Elia Iorio, Marcello Martimucci, Giacomo Cecere, Pierpaolo Petti, Rosa Caruso, Tommaso Langialonga, Alessandro Bortone, Massimo Grimaldi, Massimo Chessa
AIMS: We present the experience and long-term results of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE)-guided closure of ostium secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) in two Italian centers and investigate its systematic applicability as the gold standard in routine clinical practice. METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated all consecutive patients who underwent an ASD percutaneous closure procedure from March 2008 to February 2020. All patients underwent a preprocedural transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) evaluation...
April 1, 2024: Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
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Kifah Hussain, Christopher Ding, Jose Nazari, Mark Metzl, Amit Pursnani, Jonathan R Rosenberg
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2024: Structural heart: the journal of the Heart Team
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marco Frazzetto, Claudio Sanfilippo, Matteo Pelliccia, Corrado Tamburino, Carmelo Grasso
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 1, 2024: Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
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Mouhammed Sleiay, Bilal Sleiay, Obeda Batrash, Hadi Alabdullah, Hasan Alsmoudi, Douha AlBaroudi, Ahmad Almohamed, Mohammad Ali Abshi, Saleh Takkem
INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Raghib syndrome is a rare congenital complication consisting of the termination of the left superior vena cava (LSVC) in the left atrium, an unroofed coronary sinus, and an atrial septal defect most often found in the posterior-inferior angle of the atrial septum. Both a right-to-left and a left-to-right intracardiac shunt exist. In most circumstances, they do not show any symptoms. PRESENTATION OF CASE: The patient presented with a persistent left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium, an unroofed coronary sinus, and a secondary atrial septal defect (ASD)...
March 2024: Annals of Medicine and Surgery
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Fatima M Ezzeddine, William R Miranda, Jeremy D Collins, Ammar M Killu
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 6, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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Giulia Passaniti, Lucy M Safi, Francesca Prandi, Supawat Ratanapo, Stamatios Lerakis, Gilbert H L Tang, Parasuram Krishnamoorthy
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 16, 2024: JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions
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Henry D Huang, Paul Melman, Hagai Yavin, Cicely Dye, Yonathan Melman
Current catheter designs used for radiofrequency (RF) in cardiac tissue achieve limited ablation depth as lesion size is driven heavily by resistive heating at the tissue surface. A catheter with a truncated, dome-shaped tip with a toroidal surface designed for focal RF ablation was recently described. This in vivo study compares lesion characteristics between a second-generation focused electric field (FEF) catheter vs a standard irrigated catheter using RF energy in a beating heart model. We performed in vivo ablations using RF energy with the FEF ablation catheter tip (Focused Therapeutics) and an irrigated Blazer catheter (Boston Scientific) under identical power, duration, and irrigation rates...
February 19, 2024: JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology
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Filipa Côrte-Real, Hugo Côrte-Real
Cardiac myxoma is the most common primary heart tumor in adults. Although biologically benign, they can be life-threatening by obstructing heart function. They typically develop in the left atrium and can be polypoid (causing more obstruction) or papillary (more likely to cause embolizations). Symptoms are nonspecific, and diagnosis is relatively rare. Echocardiography is essential for quick diagnosis, and surgical removal is the primary treatment with low mortality rates, excellent postoperative survival, and low recurrence rates...
February 2024: Curēus
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Nikhil Sharma, Kristie M Coleman, Gregory Cunn, Jeremy Kleiman, Stavros E Mountantonakis
Catheter ablation of premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) arising from the left ventricular summit (LVS) presents technical challenges due to the regional anatomy and frequent intramural site of origin (SOO). Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and the CARTOSOUND® (Biosense Webster, Diamond Bar, CA, USA) module allow the operator to directly reconstruct and visualize the dimensions and orientation of the LVS live and present it in relation to neighboring structures. We retrospectively reviewed consecutive cases between January 2021 and December 2022 of patients undergoing PVC ablation for a presumed LVS origin...
February 2024: Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management
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Jonathan Kiekenap, Xiaolin Sun, Yimeng Hao, Marvin Steitz, Alexander Breitenstein-Attach, Jasper Emeis, Felix Berger, Boris Schmitt
BACKGROUND: Current heart valve implants entail major disadvantages in the treatment for younger patients or those with congenital heart defects. AIM: Evaluation of novel transcatheter pulmonary valve implant made from autologous pericardium with natural crosslinking agent in an in vitro setup and in vivo animal model METHODS: Valves were tested in a pulse duplicator according to ISO-standard 5840. For in vivo studies computer tomography was performed to measure sheep's native pulmonary valve dimensions...
March 5, 2024: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
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Mohit K Turagam, Petr Neuzil, Boris Schmidt, Tobias Reichlin, Kars Neven, Andreas Metzner, Jim Hansen, Yuri Blaauw, Philippe Maury, Thomas Arentz, Philipp Sommer, Ante Anic, Frederic Anselme, Serge Boveda, Tom Deneke, Stephan Willems, Pepijn van der Voort, Roland Tilz, Moritoshi Funasako, Daniel Scherr, Reza Wakili, Daniel Steven, Josef Kautzner, Johan Vijgen, Pierre Jais, Jan Petru, Julian Chun, Laurent Roten, Anna Füting, Marc D Lemoine, Martin Ruwald, Bart A Mulder, Anne Rollin, Heiko Lehrmann, Thomas Fink, Zrinka Jurisic, Corentin Chaumont, Raquel Adelino, Karin Nentwich, Melanie Gunawardene, Alexandre Ouss, Christian-Hendrik Heeger, Martin Manninger, Jan-Eric Bohnen, Arian Sultan, Petr Peichl, Pieter Koopman, Nicolas Derval, Thomas Kueffer, Nico Reinsch, Vivek Y Reddy
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) alone is insufficient to treat many patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (PersAF). Adjunctive left atrial posterior wall (LAPW) ablation with thermal technologies has revealed lack of efficacy, perhaps limited by the difficulty in achieving lesion durability amid concerns of esophageal injury. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to compare the safety and effectiveness of PVI + LAPW ablation vs PVI in patients with PersAF using pulsed-field ablation (PFA)...
January 31, 2024: JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology
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Weizhang Xiao, Jing Qin, Jia Feng, Feng Jiang, Xinming Chen, Xiang Cao, Qun Xue, Jiahai Shi
BACKGROUND: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon, with the majority being benign myxomas. Cystic myxoma, a particularly rare type of benign cardiac tumor, demands cautious differential diagnosis from other cardiac tumors. CASE SUMMARY: A 43-year-old male patient presenting with intermittent dyspnea was referred to our department for surgical evaluation. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) unveiled an intra-left atrial cyst, which was subsequently found to be blood-filled during a video-assisted microinvasive heart surgery...
2024: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Michael Sola, Joseph Kay, John Messenger, Jenny Zablah, Natalie Soszyn, Gareth Morgan
A 51-year-old patient with progressive right heart dysfunction was found to have a large calcified right atrial mass on echocardiography. As part of the work up for an intracardiac mass he had a cardiac computed tomogram which detailed a large coronary cameral fistula from the circumflex coronary artery to the right atrium associated with a spherical calcific pseudo-aneurysmal sac. Transcatheter occlusion of the exit point into the atrium with a vascular plug was performed directly from a right atrial approach without the need for an arteriovenous wire loop...
February 28, 2024: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
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Roberto Baltodano-Arellano, Luis Falcón-Quispe, Kelly Cupe-Chacalcaje, Gabriela Meléndez-Ramírez, Angela Cachicatari-Beltran, Sergio Patrón-Chi, Lindsay Benites-Yshpilco, Aloha Meave-González, William Anicama-Lima, Silvia Jiménez Becerra, Dante Urdanivia-Ruiz, José Antonio Arias-Godínez, Paol Rojas, Josh Moscoso, Gerald Levano-Pachas
Heart masses, including tumors (primary and secondary) and pseudotumor (cysts and thrombus), are rare entities, but of increasing interest in cardiac imaging areas. The clinical manifestations are related to the intracardiac effect of mass, embolization, and systemic symptoms in the case of tumors; however, some of them are detected incidentally. Nowadays, imaging techniques and the advancement of their tools perform the morphological, functional, and tissue characterization of the masses, and additionally know the anatomical relationships, which are crucial factors for the treatment and surgical planning...
February 2024: Echocardiography
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robert S Zhang, Eric Bailey, Muhammad H Maqsood, Rafael Harari, Samuel Bernard, Yuhe Xia, Norma Keller, Carlos L Alviar, Sripal Bangalore
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 22, 2024: American Journal of Cardiology
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Luigi Emilio Pastormerlo, Alberto Ranieri De Caterina, Augusto Esposito, Kasper Korsholm, Sergio Berti
Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) is an increasingly used alternative to oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation, especially in patients with absolute/relative contraindications to these therapies. This review will cover three main aspects of the procedure. In the fist part of the manuscript, we focus on patient selection. We describe three main categories of patients with primary indication to LAAO, namely patients with previous or at a high risk of intracerebral bleeding, patients with a history of major gastrointestinal bleeding and patients with end-stage renal disease and absolute contraindication to novel oral anticoagulants...
February 6, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Nithiananthan Mayooran, A Sherif, M Koulouroudias, S Gnanalingham, W U Ahmed Saleh, S Tan, A Boulemden, A Szafranek
OBJECTIVE: A quarter of all cardiac tumors are malignant, and most (~ 95%) are sarcomas. It is the most aggressive malignant cardiac tumor carrying the worst prognosis. Tumor involvement with the vital intracardiac structures makes it difficult for complete surgical resection. We aimed to study the role of complete surgical resection and its importance in long-term outcomes. METHODS: We analyzed published literature from 2002 to 2022 using PubMed. Cases reported adult, intracardiac sarcomas, and received surgical resections were included...
March 2024: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Weidong Wang, Hongme Zhang, Yizhen Li, Yi Wang, Qingfeng Zhang, Geqi Ding, Lixue Yin, Jinshan Tang, Bo Peng
Automated recognition of heart shunts using saline contrast transthoracic echocardiography (SC-TTE) has the potential to transform clinical practice, enabling non-experts to assess heart shunt lesions. This study aims to develop a fully automated and scalable analysis pipeline for distinguishing heart shunts, utilizing a deep neural network-based framework. The pipeline consists of three steps: (1) chamber segmentation, (2) ultrasound microbubble localization, and (3) disease classification model establishment...
February 22, 2024: J Imaging Inform Med
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An erratum was issued for: Assessing Intracardiac Vortices with High Frame-Rate Echocardiography-Derived Blood Speckle Imaging in Newborns. The Authors section was updated. The affiliation for author Damien Vitiello has been updated to: Institute of Sport and Health Sciences of Paris (IS3P - URP 3625), Université Paris Cité.
February 22, 2024: Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE
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