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Viewpoint on the 2025 European Society of Cardiology/ European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Author(s): Xiayan Shen , See Hooi Ewe Added: 6 months ago

Guidelines & Statements

Imaging & Diagnostics
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery was founded in 1986 as a European organisation devoted to the practice of cardio-thoracic surgery. Membership has now spread all over the world with 4000 active members including surgeons, perfusionists and allied health professionals.The mission of the Association is to advance education in the field of cardiac, thoracic and vascular… View more
ESC 25 Discussion: 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Author(s): Harriette Van Spall , Michael Andrew Borger Added: 9 months ago
ESC Congress 2025 - Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Canada) sits down with Professor Michael Borger (University of Leipzig Heart Center, Germany), Co-Chair of the newly released 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease.The new guidelines bring together the latest evidence and expert consensus on how to diagnose, evaluate, and treat patients with valvular… View more

Guidelines & Statements

Imaging & Diagnostics
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor of Cardiac Surgery, and Chief, Department of Cardiac Surgery
Prof Ottavio Alfieri is Senior Consultant at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit of San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, IT. He is the President of the "Alfieri Heart Foundation," established to support research and innovation at San Raffaele Hospital. From 1996 to 2017, he served as the Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and held the position of Professor of… View more
Geographical Inequality in Access to Aortic Valve Intervention in England
Author(s): Suleman Aktaa , Noman Ali , Peter F Ludman , et al Added: 1 year ago

Intervention
Job title: Contract Professor of Cardiac Surgery, and Staff Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiac Surgery
TCT Middle East 25: Minimally Invasive Surgery
Author(s): Rania Hammami , Uthman Aluthman Added: 1 year ago
TCT Middle East 2025 — We are joined by Prof Rania Hammami and Dr Uthman Aluthman as they discuss the key takeaways for minimally invasive surgery from the conference.The specialists provide insights on evolving definitions and expanding applications of minimally invasive cardiac surgical techniques. They address practical considerations regarding patient selection, recovery trajectories, and… View more

Intervention
Urgent Surgery vs Fibrinolysis for Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis: SAFE-PVT Trial Results
Added: 9 months ago Source:  Transcatheter Academy
For patients with symptomatic left-sided mechanical prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT), the optimal treatment strategy between urgent surgery and fibrinolytic therapy (FT) has been uncertain. The SAFE-PVT trial, the first randomised controlled trial (RCT) to directly compare these approaches, found that while surgery is associated with a higher risk of complications and death, FT often results in… View more

Anticoagulation

Guidelines & Statements
Metabolic Surgery Superior to GLP-1 RAs for Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes and Obesity
Added: 8 months ago Source:  Radcliffe CVRM
While both metabolic surgery and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists (RAs) are known to improve cardiometabolic health, direct long-term comparisons of their macrovascular and microvascular outcomes have been lacking. A new study published in Nature Medicine has addressed this gap by comparing these two major treatment strategies in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity.¹This… View more

Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic

Intervention
TCT 24: The MATTERHORN Trial
Author(s): Stephan Baldus Added: 1 year ago
TCT Conference 2024 - Clinical outcomes between percutaneous mitral valve repair (PMVR) and mitral valve surgery in patients with atrial mitral regurgitation (MR).Dr Stephan Baldus (University of Köln Medical Center, DE) joins us onsite at TCT Conference to discuss the findings from MATTERHORN (NCT02371512; University of Köln).MATTERHORN is a multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial,… View more

Intervention