The Influence of Aortic Valve Replacement on Functional Moderate - To-Severe Mitral Regurgitation in Patients with Aortic Valve Stenosis.

Goal: The aim of this study was to show whether the concomitant functional mitral regurgitation in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement improves after this surgical procedure and to identify preoperative echocardiographic parameters that may influence the lack of improvement in mitral regurgitation (MR) after aortic valve replacement (AVR).

Material And Methods: The study included 45 patients with severe aortic stenosis and concomitant moderate to severe (+2/+3)mitral regurgitation.

Results: The results of our study indicated an improvement in the degree of mitral regurgitation in 24 patients.

The frequency of complications of pseudoaneurysms after cardiac interventional diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

Pseudo aneurysms as complications are a major source of morbidity after cardiac catheterization. Their incidence varies in the literature due to different definitions, methods of interrogation and presence of certain complications. We found in the literature that post-catheterization lesions occur in approximately 0.

Successful percutaneous septal alcohol ablation after surgical myectomy.

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is a primary, usually familial and genetically fixed myocardial hypertrophy, with dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. An alternative to surgical myectomy in the treatment of severe, drug refractory, HOCM is percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA). We report a case of 24 year old female patient who had the first septal myectomy but because of progression of her disease, the percutaneous treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy was performed.