CABG restores blood flow by bypassing blocked arteries using grafts from the patient’s vessels. For many patients, CABG can improve survival and reduce major cardiac events.
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Why are some patients still symptomatic despite a “normal” cath? Interventional cardiologist Dr. Jay Widmer explains why microvascular disease demands a closer look — and a different approach.
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A simple guide to anatomy vs physiology, angiogram and IVUS/OCT vs FFR/iFR, CT-FFR and what each one tells you.
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A narrowing on the angiogram doesn't always mean the heart is starved of blood.
A quick guide to FFR, iFR, and RFR, the three ways we measure whether a lesion actually limits flow. Save the comparison 📌
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🫀 The heart works nonstop, but how does it keep itself supplied with blood?
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Dr. Patrick Hranitzky takes on a 36-year-old with congenital heart disease, four prior surgeries, mechanical valves, and an interrupted IVC — reaching the heart through the liver in a complex transhepatic AFib ablation.
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🫀 Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR): a less invasive way to replace a diseased mitral valve.
See how a new valve is delivered without open-heart surgery!
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🫀 Mitral valve Regurgitation: repair or replace?
Swipe to find out different options and how this decision is made!
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🫀 MitraClip: fixing a leaky mitral valve without open surgery.
Watch how this transcatheter clip grips the two leaflets together to reduce mitral regurgitation, edge-to-edge repair, no open-heart surgery needed.
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🩺 How do we catch mitral valve disease?
From the bedside murmur to AI stethoscopes, echo, TEE, and cardiac MRI, here are five ways we find it. Also, a huge thanks to @aliakhanm.d for providing us with the mitral valve TEE!
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🫀 The mitral valve can fail in more than one way.
A quick guide to the main types of mitral valve disease — regurgitation, stenosis, prolapse, and mixed disease. Save it for your next rotation 📌
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A quick guide to assessing the mitral valve with TTE, TEE, MRI, and CT, what each shows, when to use it, and its limits. Save it for your next rotation 📌
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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
A procedure that is remarkable, and remarkably common. This week we're covering PCI, from the cath lab to discharge and recovery.
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Cardiac catheterization, in 45 seconds 🫀
A gold-standard procedure for measuring cardiac pressures, visualizing the coronary arteries, and assessing cardiac and vascular function. Here’s how it works.
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Waveforms 101: the left heart 🫀
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Waveforms 101: the right heart 🫀
RA, RV, and PA pressure tracings, how to recognize each shape and the common abnormalities behind them. Save it for your next cath lab rotation!
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🫀 Left vs Right Heart Catheterization, what's the difference?
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Cardiac catheterization, in 45 seconds 🫀
A gold-standard procedure for measuring cardiac pressures, visualizing the coronary arteries, and assessing cardiac and vascular function. Here’s how it works.
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What do the Cath Lab numbers actually mean? Swipe to find out!
A beginner's guide to the 5 core hemodynamic measurements: arterial pressure, PCWP, cardiac output, ventricular pressures & oxygen saturation.
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