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Author(s):
Sami A Omar
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Adam de Belder
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3 years ago
There will be guidelines about the optimal management of most clinical situations. It makes decision making in medicine more universal, but often you have to think about all of the awkward situations that sit outside the guidelines. One neglected area of research involves the management of illness in older people. The older patient is often not included in trial protocols, and so a well of…
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Michael G Kirby
Job title: Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences
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Frailty Scores and CVD
Author(s):
Kenneth Jordan Ng Cheong Chung
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Chris Wilkinson
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Murugapathy Veerasamy
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et al
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2 years ago
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Author(s):
Christoph Gräni
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Philipp A Kaufmann
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Stephan Windecker
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et al
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3 years ago
Anomalous origin of the coronary artery from the opposite sinus of Valsalva (ACAOS) is a rare inborn disease that is characterised by an anomalous course and/or termination of a native coronary vessel.1,2 The traditional definition of ACAOS differentiates between benign and malignant variants. Malignant ACAOS has an interarterial course (IAC) of the anomalous vessel between the pulmonary artery…
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Author(s):
Benjamin Beska
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Hanna Ratcovich
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Alan Bagnall
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et al
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1 year ago
Author(s):
Thomas J Fogarty
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3 years ago
Within the world of medical devices, it is the surgeon and other medical personnel who may be considered best placed to create and design new tools. However, in today’s high-pressure and highly regulated environment there is little hope that typical inventors, working from their garages, will be able to get to the clinical testing stage by themselves.
So, what steps should would-be inventors…
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Author(s):
Didier Tchétché
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Chiara de Biase
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Bruno Brochado
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et al
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3 years ago
Sixteen years have elapsed since the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and the procedure has now been widely adopted. The first time the procedure was performed, the patient was under conscious sedation with local anaesthesia for an antegrade-transseptal procedure.1 The pioneering team in Rouen published a series of case reports for patients treated via a transfemoral route…
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Author(s):
Felipe H Valle
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Basma Mohammed
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Stephen P Wright
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et al
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3 years ago
Author(s):
Giuliano Costa
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Enrico Criscione
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Denise Todaro
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et al
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3 years ago
Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most common valvular diseases in developed countries and its prevalence is projected to increase over the next decade as the population ages.1,2 Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established alternative to surgery for treatment of patients with symptomatic, severe AS.3
As the latest multicentre trials have established the role of TAVI…
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