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The atrial appendage may look tiny, but it works hard. In normal rhythm, it squeezes with the atria to help fill the ventricles, handles pressure changes, and releases ANP.
But when sinus rhythm is lost, it stops moving and that stillness becomes the ideal setup for clot formation.
A patient brought into the ED with out of hospital cardiac arrest and 30 minutes of CPR.
You drop the TEE probe and see this.
What's the finding and what would you do?
First EVOQUE transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (56 mm) in Israel at Sheba Medical Center.
80-year-old patient post RV lead extraction and leadless pacemaker, successfully treated for severe TR — no residual TR and doing great the next day. @PCRonline@EdwardsLifesci
With the great results of #SELUTION4ISR & #SELUTION DeNovo trials at #TCT2025, the "lowly balloon" is being reborn for PCI. Since I'm always thinking about #AngioHistory, I thought this clip from my 1985 (i.e. pre-stent) interview w Andreas Gruentzig would be appropriate today.
Saturday begins #TCT2025 at Moscone in San Francisco. But most don't know that in Spring 1977, the 1st coronary angioplasties were done just 3 mi away. Before doing the 1st PTCA in the cath lab, Gruentzig tested his device w/Richard Myler on intraoperative cases. #AngioHistory