The role of noninvasive imaging to help guide transcatheter aortic valvular interventions is well established and has grown with the advances in the procedure. With the rapid development of new transcatheter mitral valve...
Amid rapid growth in transcatheter valvular interventions computed tomography (CT) has emerged as a pivotal noninvasive imaging resource that can be used throughout many stages of the transcatheter heart valve process, enhancing...
Cardiovascular computed tomography (CCT) has undergone rapid maturation over the last decade and is now of proven clinical utility in the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease, in guiding structural heart disease...
Since the publication of the firstexpertconsensus document on computed tomography imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)/trans- catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) by the So- ciety of Cardiovascular...
BACKGROUND: CT measurement of supra-annular area (SA) has been proposed as an alternative to annular area (AA) for sizing of trancatheter valves in biscuspid aortic valves (BAV). This study examines the reproducibility of SA and...
BACKGROUND: Coronary artery calcification is a significant contributor to reduced accuracy of coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) in the assessment of coronary artery disease severity. The aim of the current study is...
INTRODUCTION: Angina, myocardial ischemia, and coronary artery physiology in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are poorly understood. However, coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) with fractional flow reserve from CT...
Since the publication of the first expert consensus document on computed tomography imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)/transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) by the Society of Cardiovascular...
Aortic valve-in-valve (aVIV) procedures are advancing the management of failed bioprosthetic surgical heart valves (SHV)1,2. As opposed to transcatheter heart valve (THV) replacement for native aortic stenosis, selection of the...
Implementing digital learning approaches in fragile contexts offers opportunities and challenges at the same time. The article describes an ongoing project by the German development cooperation organization GIZ (Deutsche...
OBJECTIVES: Fractional flow reserve computed tomography (FFRCT) depends upon nitroglycerin (NTG) inducing maximal hyperemia. However, the impact of NTG dosages on FFRCT analysis including coronary volume-to-mass ratio (V/M) is...
The Reaction InChI (RInChI) extends the idea of the InChI, which provides a unique descriptor of molecular structures, towards reactions. Prototype versions of the RInChI have been available since 2011. The first official...
Business process improvement (BPI) is of high priority for practitioners. But especially the most value-adding phase in a BPI project, namely the “act of improvement”, is insufficiently supported despite the many existing...
While it is commonly believed that democracy influences public service provision, comparably few studies have assessed how recent democratisation in developing countries has impacted tangible public service outcomes for...
BACKGROUND: A major effort is underway to use population genetic approaches to identify loci involved in adaptation. One issue that has so far received limited attention is whether loci that show a phylogenetic signal of...
Controlling cognitive systems like domestic robots or intelligent assistive environments requires striking an appropriate balance between responsiveness and persistence. Basic goal arbitration is an essential element of low...
Recent evidence suggests that successors do not simply inherit their parents' firm, but have to pay a certain price. Building on institutional logics literature, we explore successors' family discount expectations, defined as...
While it is commonly believed that democracy influences public service provision, comparably few studies have assessed how recent democratisation in developing countries has impacted tangible public service outcomes for...