Patients with concomitant severe aortic stenosis (AS) and severe mitral stenosis (MS) with mitral annular calcification (MAC) constitute an elderly high-risk population with multiple baseline comorbidities that coexist even before they develop severe valvular dysfunction. Transcatheter mitral valve replacements (TMVR) offer an alternative option for high-risk patient with severe MS with MAC. A simultaneous transfemoral Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and transseptal TMVR is feasible and offers the least invasive approach of management. We are reporting a case of an 83-year-old man with very symptomatic severe AS and severe native MS with associated severe MAC and moderate mitral regurgitation with high STS score who underwent a simultaneous transfemoral TAVR and transseptal TMVR with good results and great improvement in symptoms that was maintained on 10 months follow-up.
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The risk of events is thought to be linear with the high-sensitivity troponin level.
The absolute troponin level might not be the sole determinant of risk, however.
Chest pain patients with stable low-level troponin elevation pose a challenge.
High-sensitivity troponin T ≤ 50 ng/l with a rise < 5 ng/l identify a low-risk cohort.
Background: The best disposition of chest pain patients who rule out for myocardial infarction (MI) but have non-low clinical risk scores in the high-sensitivity troponin era is not well studied. Hypothesis: In carefully selected patients who rule out for MI, and have a highsensitivity troponin T ≤ 50 ng/L with an absolute increase less than 5 ng/L on repeat measurements, early emergency room (ER) discharge might be equivalent to inpatient evaluation in regards to 30-day incidence of adverse cardiac events (ACEs) regardless of the clinical risk score. Methods: A total of 12 847 chest pain patients presenting to our health system ERs from January 2017 to September 2019 were retrospectively investigated. A propensity score matching algorithm was used to account for baseline differences between admitted and discharged cohorts. We then estimated and compared the incidence of 30-day and 1-year composite ACEs (MI, urgent revascularization, or cardiovascular death) between both groups. A multivariate Cox regression model was used to evaluate the effect of admission on outcomes. Results: A total of 2060 patients were matched in 1:1 fashion. The primary endpoint of 30-day composite ACEs occurred in 0.6% and 0.4% of the admission and the discharged cohorts, respectively (P = .76). One-year composite ACEs was also similar between both groups (4% vs 3.7%, P = .75). In a multivariate Cox regression model, the effect of inpatient evaluation was neutral (hazard ratio 1.1, confidence interval 0.62-1.9, P = .75). Conclusions: Inpatient evaluation was not associated with better outcomes in our selected group of patients. Larger-scale randomized trials are needed to confirm our findings. † Osama Mahmoud and Amro Alsaid has an equal contribution.
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