Approaches and Challenges in Transcatheter Valve Treatment
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 9048
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Transcatheter therapy has emerged as a safe and viable option for the treatment of various congenital and structural heart diseases, especially in patients who are deemed at high or prohibitive risk for surgical intervention. The steep uptake in transcatheter advances and innovations has led to a significant shift in structural heart intervention from predominantly surgical to a less-invasive catheter-based approach. Many transcatheter structural heart therapies are either commercially available or under investigation, including transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER and T-TEER), transcatheter mitral and tricuspid replacement (TMVR and TTVR), transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO), transcatheter paravalvular leak (PVL) closure, and transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect (ASD), among others. Despite the safety and promising short-term outcomes of those transcatheter interventions, long-term outcomes remain under scrutiny, especially as relatively younger populations are being considered for those therapies. Further, with the expansion of those procedures to larger cohorts, physicians are facing many challenges as they deal with patients with difficult vascular and/or valve anatomy, as well as patients at increased risk of complications. In this Special Issue, we welcome authors to submit articles discussing the various approaches and current challenges in transcatheter structural heart disease interventions.
Dr. Marwan Saad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structural heart disease
- transcatheter
- valve intervention
- left atrial appendage
- patent foramen ovale
- TAVR
- TEER
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