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Atlanta, GA
Foreshortening vs. Shortening- IYKYK
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Fireworks tomorrow; first spark ten years ago today-happy tenth anniversary to transcaval TAVR and the explosion of transcatheter electrosurgery since.
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A huge thanks to the cath lab staff and many others at Emory Midtown Hospital for donating their precious weekend time for patient care and education. @TCT2022. #emorymidtownhospital #Emoryanesthesia #emorystructuralheart
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Blast from the past- some approaching 20 years! Anyone got older?
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Register now for EPIC Live—a showcase of 13 complex interventions! Where else can you see CTO PCI, BASILICA, Transcaval TAVR,LAMPOON facilitated TMVR, and coronary physiology all performed live? eventbrite.com/e/epic-emory-…
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Lost a good one today. RIP Tonka.
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Next time someone needs my CV I’m just sending them this pic. Some classics here: Duke circa 1995 NYU circa 1990 Albany Medical College Hosp. 1987 Weekend challenge: find and post your oldest pair
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Trusting science and technology to not ruin the bird...hopefully, our leaders feel the same. Happy Thanksgiving
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Oh how far my choice of attire for the day has come...
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RT @doctimes2: "For 8 minutes and 46 seconds we saw, but most of all we heard. 114 words. Two pierced our souls. Two cries for Mama..." We…
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Type1 bicuspid; low left coronary (dominant); poor CT; unsure of valve size (26vs29) and coronary obstruction risk. Opted for sizing BAV with a 25mm balloon. Thoughts?⁦@JasonFoerst⁩ ⁦@J_M_McCabe⁩ ⁦@PradeepYadavMD⁩ ⁦@PaulMahoneyMD⁩ ⁦@CathElectroSurg⁩
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Delayed presentation inferior STEMI s/p PCI. Then this. How best to treat remains uncertain to me.
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“Houston we have a problem!” Transcaval impella day 9 waiting for tissue to scar a little more before BASSINET- a few Definity bubbles can be seen in the pericardial fluid. @jasonfoerst @pradeepyadav
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Agree that results are suboptimal with muscular VSD devices. We have had some success with BASSINET (hybrid surgical or percutaneous). Requires direct RV access. ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1…
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To me, it’s the quickest method to get maximum support without limb ischemia.
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Day 5 with transcaval Impella- awake and comfortable with normal Hg, renal and liver function- BASSINET planning CT
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I start with this...emergent transcaval 5L Impella insertion and Swan. No planning CT- projection angles and crossing location fluoroscopically identified.
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Many still ask if it will reverse the shunt and cause hypoxia. It will not. I find most post infarct VSD shunts ratios close to 3:1 (2.9 in this case). The 5.0 Impella will reduce it to less than 2:1 (1.7 in this case).
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Spending too much time on 3mensio these days. Happy Holidays from @EmoryStructuralHeart. #CTfirst ⁦@GruentzigG⁩ ⁦@LombardiFake⁩ ⁦@MayraGuerreroMD⁩ ⁦@DeeDeeWangMD⁩ ⁦@JoaoLCavalcante⁩ ⁦@J_M_McCabe⁩
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