Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair via MitraClip in Patients Aged <65 Years: Multicentre 2-year Outcomes.

Background: Transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) using the MitraClip has become a well-established interventional therapy and is usually performed in elderly patients. The objective of this study was to assess 2-year clinical outcomes of TMVR in patients aged <65 years at three heart centres with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and no surgical options.

Methods: A retrospective study analysed data of 36 patients aged <65 years treated with TMVR .

In-flight cardiac arrest and in-flight cardiopulmonary resuscitation during commercial air travel: consensus statement and supplementary treatment guideline from the German Society of Aerospace Medicine (DGLRM).

By the end of the year 2016, approximately 3 billion people worldwide travelled by commercial air transport. Between 1 out of 14,000 and 1 out of 50,000 passengers will experience acute medical problems/emergencies during a flight (i.e.

Fifteen-year experience with carotid artery stenting (from the carotid artery stenting-registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte).

To date only sparse data are available on trends and changes in indications, patient's characteristics, and clinical outcome of patients undergoing carotid artery stenting (CAS) in clinical practice. From February 1996 to December 2010, 6,116 CAS procedures were performed in 5,976 patients at 36 hospitals within the prospective, multicenter CAS registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte. Median age of patients was 71 years, 71.

[62-year old male patient with position-depending dyspnoe after hemipneumectomia].

Background: Dyspnoe is a symptom with a huge differential diagnostic spectrum. According to patients hemodynamic, acute forms can be caused by myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary edema and heart rhythm disturbances while chronic forms can be caused by restrictive myocardial and pericardial diseases, hematooncological diseases, orthopedic deformations and chronic pulmonary diseases. The platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome with underlying interatrial connection is a rare cause and need a special diagnostic work-up.

Carotid artery interventions for restenosis after prior stenting: is it different from interventions of de novo lesions? Results from the carotid artery stent (CAS)--registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte (ALKK).

Objective: To compare characteristics and outcome of patients with re-stenoses after prior carotid artery stenting (CAS) treated with repeat carotid interventions (Re-CI) with CAS for de novo lesions.

Background: The treatment of re-stenosis is a major problem in vascular interventions. Patients with re-stenoses after prior CAS treated with Re-CI are not well defined.

Carotid artery stenting: do procedural complications relate to the side intervened upon?: results from the Carotid Artery Stent (CAS)-Registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte (ALKK).

Objectives: To determine the influence of the side intervened upon on outcomes during carotid artery stenting (CAS).

Background: Anatomic and technical aspects may influence the results of CAS. The value of the side intervened upon has not been analyzed yet.

Carotid artery stenting in octogenarians: results from the ALKK Carotid Artery Stent (CAS) Registry.

Aims: We tried to determine the influence of age on complication rates of carotid artery stenting (CAS).

Methods And Results: Two thousand seven hundred eighty CAS procedures were included in the registry. Median age of the patients was 70.

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography improves diagnostics of inflammatory arteritis.

Based on the unique property of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose, localization and follow-up of hypermetabolic processes is possible with positron emission tomography (PET). The dual-modality PET/computed tomography (CT) systems provide intrinsically fused morphologic and functional data in a single examination. We report on two patients with inflammatory aortitis and positive PET/CT findings.