When working-age adults develop cardiovascular disease, it often ends up eating up a significant amount of their income. Are insurance companies doing enough to help these patients?
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery has announced a new partnership with the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network. The groups plan on working together to address current challenges in cardiothoracic surgery research.
Oversizing transcatheter heart valves can improve TAVR outcomes. There is still a reason to be cautious, however, especially when patients are receiving a balloon-expandable valve.
Heart teams can limit the risk of conduction disturbances that lead to permanent pacemaker implantation by utilizing both the cusp-overlap method and intracardiac echocardiography.
When patients with pacemakers die, what happens to the device? Typically, it ends up being discarded and forgotten—they were designed to be single-use devices, after all—but that does not have to be the case.
