Unintentional Extraction of a Deployed Coronary Stent Due to Microcatheter Fracture.

To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of unintentional removal of a deployed stent due to the fracture of a microcatheter tip.

Infective endocarditis: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a potentially life-threatening infection of the heart's endocardial surface. Despite advances in the diagnosis and management of IE, morbidity and mortality remain high.

Aim: To characterize the demographics, bacteriology and outcomes of IE cases presenting to an Irish tertiary referral centre.

Early and mid-term outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in Ireland.

Background: TAVI is a percutaneous approach to aortic valve replacement in high surgical risk patients deemed inoperable.

Aim: To evaluate the early and mid-term outcomes for an Irish TAVI cohort over a six-year period at St James's Hospital and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.

Results: In total 147 patients, 56% male with an average age of 82 underwent TAVI between December 2008 and December 2014.

Long-term cardiac monitoring in older adults with unexplained falls and syncope.

Aims: Unexplained falls account for 20% of falls in older cohorts. The role of the implantable loop recorder (ILR) in the detection of arrhythmias in patients with unexplained falls is unknown. We aimed to examine the diagnostic utility of the ILR in detection of arrhythmogenic causes of unexplained falls in older patients.