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Non-coronary Interventions in the Elderly

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Interventional Cardiology in the Elderly

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Non-coronary cardiac interventions increasingly emerge as treatment options for structural heart disease in patients with high or prohibitive surgical risk that is mainly encountered in the elderly population. Transcatheter repair for aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation the most common valvular diseases of old age are well established. Interventional occlusion of atrial septal defects and other congenital or acquired shunts has also been shown to be a feasible, safe and beneficial option for the elderly. In addition transcatheter occlusion of left atrial appendage arises as replacement for anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation patients at increased embolic risk with contraindications against anticoagulation.

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