3D Wideband Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) MRI for Patients with Implanted Cardiac Devices Shams Rashid, Stanislas Rapacchi, Roderick Tung, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Daniel Ennis, J. Paul Finn, and Peng Hu Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Uni...

We report a late complication of pectus excavatum repair which highlights the importance of a chest X-ray in evaluating chest pain in patients who have had previous chest surgery. It also raises the question of whether or not implanted wires should be electively removed following bony union.

BACKGROUND In Brazil, despite the recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology, the National Health System has not yet approved the use of drug-eluting stents. In percutaneous coronary interventions performed in the public and part of the private health care system, bare metal stents are used as the only option. Therefore, new information on bare metal ...

PurposeLeft ventricular assist device (LVAD) improves 5-year survival and quality of life in advanced heart failure patients. However, feasibility long-term outcomes developing countries are unknown. We evaluate the actuarial adverse events rate a cohort patients implanted largest MCS program Colombia, South AmericaMethodsAll adult who received durable LVAD at Fundación Cardiovascular de Colomb...

The progressive nature of coronary atherosclerotic disease is often neglected in patients submitted to percutaneous coronary intervention. Very late (> 1 year) myocardial infarctions affecting the treated myocardial territory are usually attributed to device related complications. We report the case of a patient with acute inferior wall ST-elevation myocardial infarction, who had a thrombotic o...

Early activation of Cochlear Implant (CI) is a technique where the processor activated in less than 4 weeks. In this way, time and costs are reduced process functional restoration hearing. On other hand, late sequential cochlear implant one second CI implanted at different surgical first user's age greater 7 years. The aim systematic review to analyze available information on effects early afte...

The study was designed to assess patient adherence wearable cardioverter defibrillator as an indicator of device effectiveness. training is not widely properly standardized. We enrolled 25 patients with a prevent sudden cardiac death between June 2020 and August 2022. Among them, 84% were male median age 63.6 years. indication ischemic (44%) non-ischemic (56%) disease. followed-up until the dec...

A polymer-free biolimus A9-coated stent (PF-BCS; BioFreedom™, Biosensors Interventional Technologies, Singapore) can elute the drug even without a polymer by retaining on rough surface of wall (1). Here we present case late neointimal regression 1–5 years after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We performed PCI for severe stenosis proximal right artery and implanted PF-BCS. The thicknes...

To determine for the first time, whether "pumping" or "weak contraction," defined as blastocoelic contraction by more than 8 microns in diameter, is associated with poor implantation rates, independent of other morphokinetic features. We analyzed 148,441 images from time-lapse sequences 317 expanded blastocysts, chosen transfer, known data. Using a computer vision algorithm, we were able to mea...