TCT-462 Two-years Echocardiographic Changes After Neochord Procedure

Acute safety and efficacy of the NeoChord procedure†.

OBJECTIVES Transapical off-pump mitral valve repair using the NeoChord device has been proposed to treat degenerative mitral valve regurgitation. This prospective study sought to evaluate acute safety and efficacy of this innovative, minimally invasive, transcatheter mitral valve repair approach. METHODS Symptomatic patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) were selected if they presente...

Echocardiographic changes after cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

BACKGROUND AND AIM The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate echocardiographic changes in clinical responders and nonresponders after 3 and 15 months of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). METHODS Fifty eight patients in whom a biventricular system was implanted between 2005 and 2008 were followed up at 3 and at 15 months. Clinical and echocardiography parameters including intra-...

A Clinical Diagnosis Made Bench Side after Two Years

Diagnostic Pathology – after two years

With the second anniversary of Diagnostic Pathology approaching, this Editorial looks at the journal's achievements so far and outlines the prospects and challenges.

Echocardiographic changes after successful renal transplantation in young nondiabetic patients.

Eighteen young nondiabetic patients with chronic renal failure were studied by M-mode echocardiography before and three to 67 weeks after a successful renal transplant. Left ventricular mass (LVM), cardiac output (CO), and stroke work, which were increased before the operation, decreased afterward, in some cases to normal values. Both regression of the LVM and normalization of CO were detected ...