Timing of pulmonary valve replacement: can we use the same volumetric thresholds in repaired tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary stenosis?

The timing of pulmonary valve replacement in patients with pulmonary regurgitation following treatment of pulmonary stenosis is undefined. Although cardiac magnetic resonance-based right ventricular volumes in tetralogy of Fallot patients have been used as a guide in pulmonary stenosis patients, anatomic differences between tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary stenosis patients complicate their application to pulmonary stenosis patients and could result in late referral for pulmonary valve replacement. We sought to determine if pulmonary stenosis patients referred for pulmonary valve replacement were at greater risk for morbidity or need for tricuspid valve intervention at the time of pulmonary valve replacement.

Cardiac MRI predictors of adverse outcomes in adults with a systemic right ventricle.

Aims: Predicting risk in individuals with a systemic right ventricle (SRV) remains difficult. We assessed the value of cardiac MRI (CMR) for predicting death, heart transplantation (HT), or need for a ventricular assist device (VAD) in adults with D-transposition of the great arteries (DTGA) post Mustard/Senning and in adults with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) at two large academic centres.

Methods And Results: Between December 1999 and November 2020, 158 adult patients with an SRV underwent CMR.

Platelet reactivity in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Thromboembolic events, primarily stroke, might complicate transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) procedures in 3-5 % of cases. Thus, it is common to administer aspirin and clopidogrel pharmacotherapy for 3-6 months following TAVI in order to prevent those events. The biologic response to the dual anti platelet treatment (DAPT) is heterogeneous, e.