Self-expanding TAVI using the cusp overlap technique versus the traditional technique: electrocardiogram changes and 1-year cardiovascular outcomes.

Introduction And Objectives: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) using the cusp overlap technique (COT) has shown a lower pacemaker implantation rate at 30 days. The objective of this study was to compare electrocardiogram changes and clinical outcomes between COT and the traditional technique (TT) at 1 year of follow-up.

Methods: Observational, retrospective, nonrandomized study of consecutive patients undergoing TAVI between January 2015 and January 2021.

Impact of reperfusion strategy on outcomes in very elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Aim: The best reperfusion strategy for patients of advanced age (either primary-angioplasty or thrombolysis) after a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remains controversial. Aim of the study was to test differences in morbidity and mortality regarding the reperfusion strategy adopted.

Methods: From 2007-2012, 182 patients ≥85 year-old with STEMI were admitted to the coronary care unit of two tertiary centers.

Primary cardiac tumors: 32 years of experience from a Spanish tertiary surgical center.

Introduction: Primary cardiac tumors are rare entities with an autopsy frequency ranging between 0.001% and 0.3%.

[Isolated left ventricular non-compaction associated with Ebstein's anomaly. Multimodality non-invasive imaging for the assessment of congenital heart disease].

To establish the etiology of heart failure in patients with congenital heart disease can be challenging. Multiple concomitant anomalies that can be missed after an initial diagnosis could be seen in these patients. In patients with congenital heart disease, a more accurate evaluation of cardiac morphology and left ventricular systolic function could be evaluated by recent non-invasive cardiac imaging techniques.

Usefulness of Q-wave area for threshold-based stratification of global left ventricular myocardial infarct size.

Left ventricular (LV) infarct size affects prognosis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (DE-CMR) provides accurate infarct quantification but is unavailable or contraindicated in many patients. This study tested whether simple electrocardiography (ECG) parameters can stratify LV infarct size.

Management and risk factors for mortality in very elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Aim: Elderly patients often remain underrepresented in clinical trials. The aim of our study was to analyze the treatment, clinical outcome and risk factors for mortality in patients aged ≥85 years with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Methods: From 2005-2011, 102 patients aged ≥85 years with STEMI admitted to a coronary care unit were retrospectively reviewed.

Atrioventricular conduction disturbance characterization in transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the CoreValve prosthesis.

Background: Atrioventricular (AV) block is one of the most frequent complications of CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of CoreValve implantation on AV conduction.

Methods And Results: Electrophysiological study was performed immediately before and after CoreValve implantation in 18 consecutive, permanent pacemaker-free patients.