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A mitral valve replacement that may grow with the child
Major finding: Eight infants with irreparable mitral valve disease underwent mitral valve replacement with the Melody valve, which offers the...
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ICU stay may be unnecessary after elective endovascular aneurysm treatment
Major finding: Only 4% of 687 patients undergoing routine endovascular aneurysm treatment experienced postoperative complications and almost three...
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EVEREST II: Tight MR control improves MitraClip patients' survival
Major finding: In a study of 351 high-risk patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) who underwent repair with the MitraClip device, survival...
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Stent-retriever outcomes good in stroke patients with 'T' occlusions
Major finding: Recanalization rates were higher in the stent-retriever group (83% vs. 38%, P = .012) when the analysis was restricted to patients...
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Mitral valve bioprosthetic shows durability
Major finding: The mean durability of the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Pericardial prosthetic was 16.6 years before a structural valve dysfunction...
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Transfers may have worse ischemic stroke outcomes
Major finding: Significantly fewer patients who were transferred from an outside institution to a comprehensive stroke center had good functional...
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Mitral valve bioprosthetic shows 16+ years of durability
Major finding: The mean durability of the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Pericardial prosthetic was 16.6 years before a structural valve dysfunction...
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Fine-tune screening for adverse pregnancy outcome biomarkers in antiphospholipid syndrome
Major finding: Thirty-nine percent of pregnant patients with lupus anticoagulant had an adverse pregnancy outcome, compared with 3% who did not...