Expert Perspectives
Internationally recognized cardiac transplant surgeon discusses his team’s unprecedented study.
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in Heart & Vascular
100%
One-year heart transplant survival rate
5,000+
Transcatheter Aortic Valves (TAVRs)
Complex Case Spotlight
A patient with a bicuspid aortic valve presented with persistent fever, rashes and joint pain. Specialists diagnosed the patient with infective endocarditis after an initial transthoracic echocardiogram showed two small masses on the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, each about 5 by 12 millimeters in size, and blood cultures came back positive.
Additional echocardiography revealed vegetations on the aortic valve.
Further imaging revealed an aortic root abscess plus multiple septic brain emboli, a splenic abscess, and renal infarction. The aortic valve was successfully replaced using a pulmonary autograft (Ross) procedure, during which the mitral valve vegetations were removed. The infection to the spleen necessitated its removal and the remaining infections were treated with postoperative antibiotics.
CARDIOLOGY
Dr. Harmony G. Reynolds and a research team are proving that OCT and cardiac MRI and can clarify why many women have heart attacks without coronary artery narrowing. Read the interview.
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