Publications by authors named "Ahmed Chilmeran"
Article Synopsis
- Dialysis is a serious but rare complication following transcatheter aortic valve replacement, and researchers analyzed the TRITAVI registry to develop a clinical score for assessing this risk.
- They identified various preprocedural factors (like male sex, diabetes, and anemia) and procedural features (like contrast volume and need for transfusion) that contribute to the risk, resulting in two scoring systems (TRITAVIpre and TRITAVIpost) which demonstrated strong predictive power.
- The study confirmed that the need for dialysis significantly increases mortality rates, emphasizing the importance of the developed scores in predicting dialysis risk before the procedure.
Single arterial access closure of post-infarction ventricular septal defect: A case series.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
January 2023
Background: Post-infarction ventricular septal defect (PIVSD) carries a very poor prognosis. Surgical repair offers reasonable outcomes in patients who survive the initial healing period. Percutaneous device implantation remains a potentially effective earlier alternative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Increasing evidence exists suggesting that cardiac contractility modulation therapy (CCM) improves symptoms in heart failure patients if various selection criteria are fulfilled. The aim of this study is to analyse an unselected sample of heart failure patients to establish what percentage of patients would meet the current criteria for CCM therapy.
Methods: All patients admitted to two district general hospitals in the UK in 2018 with a diagnosis of heart failure were audited for eligibility for CCM therapy.