Items tagged “heart”
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Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) refers to simultaneous biventricular or multisite pacing of the heart with a specialised biventricular cardiac pacemaker (CRT-P) with or without an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (CRT-D) and is a treatment option in moderate to severe heart failure...
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Ischaemic cardiomyopathy
Ischaemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) refers to significant systolic dysfunction with a moderate to severely impaired left ventricular ejection fraction as a consequence of myocardial ischaemia and/or myocardial infarction. The condition is not listed or classified as cardiomyopathy in the position sta...
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Transcatheter mitral valve intervention
Transcatheter mitral valve interventions (TMVI) or percutaneous mitral valve interventions are less-invasive, highly technical procedures available for the management of selected patients with mitral valve regurgitation and include several transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) and transcathet...
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Prosthetic valve thrombosis
Prosthetic valve thrombosis, valve thrombosis or leaflet thrombosis refers to thrombus formation of any component of a prosthetic heart valve and is a cause of prosthetic valve dysfunction and a potentially reversible complication of valvular surgery 1,2.
Subclinical leaflet thrombosis is an en...
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Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is a type of heart failure due to left ventricular dysfunction (left heart failure) classified by a left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction occurs when the left ventricle is unable to con...
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Normal bedside echocardiogram (ultrasound)
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05 Nov 2022
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Non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy
Non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy (NDLVC) refers to a cardiomyopathy phenotype that affects the left ventricle and is characterised by non-ischaemic myocardial scarring or fatty replacement with or without regional or global wall-motion abnormalities, or in the setting of global left v...
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