Case Report: Living on the Edge-Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Related Infective Endocarditis.

Infective endocarditis (IE) following mitral valve edge-to-edge repair is a rare complication with high mortality. A 91-year-old male patient was admitted to intensive care unit with sepsis due to urinary tract infection after insertion of a urinary catheter by the outpatient urologist. Two weeks ago, the patient was discharged from hospital after successful transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TEER) using a PASCAL Ace device.

Cardiac adaptations in elite female football- and volleyball-athletes do not impact left ventricular global strain values: a speckle tracking echocardiography study.

Cardiac adaptations to exercise on an elite level have been well studied. Strain analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography has emerged as a tool for sports cardiologists to assess the nature of hypertrophy in athletes' hearts. In prior studies, strain values generally did not change in physiological adaptations to exercise but were reduced in pathological hypertrophy.

Long-term impact of a bonus freeze on clinical outcome: Analysis of effective and non-effective bonus freezes in cryoballoon ablation.

Purpose: Data on bonus freeze characteristics and their impact on complication rates and long-term clinical outcome are limited.

Methods: Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) using a 28 mm 2nd-generation cryoballoon (CB) was performed in 169 patients (pts). The isolation temperatures, time to isolation and minimal temperatures of the cryoapplications were documented.

Pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation : Long-term clinical outcomes with first- and second-generation cryoballoons.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term success rates of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) using only first-generation cryoballoon (CB-1) and second-generation CB (CB-2) in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF).

Patients And Methods: A total of 114 drug-refractory patients with PAF (mean age: 62 ± 10 years; 62.3 % males) were enrolled.

Cryoballoon ablation for pulmonary vein isolation in patients with atrial fibrillation: preliminary results using novel short-tip cryoballoon.

Purpose: In this study, we aimed to report our preliminary experience regarding the impact of the novel short-tip (ST) cryoballoon (CB) on procedural efficacy and signal quality during pulmonary vein (PV) isolation for both paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation.

Methods: Between March, 2015, and August, 2015, we enrolled a total of 64 patients (47 patients male, 73 %) with a mean age of 60 ± 11 years. In the study population, 31 patients (48 %) underwent PVI using Advance (ADV) CB and 33 (52 %) patients with ST CB.