Brijeshwar Maini, MD, explains his decision to leave clinical practice to become a full-time cardiac device business owner. It is a path several prominent cardiologists have made.
During robotic mitral valve surgery, a 3D camera allows surgeons to see the mitral valve and other structures inside the heart. Surgeons use a robotic surgical system to guide the robotic arms and movements of the surgical instruments. Image courtesy of UCSF.
“Robotically assisted mitral valve surgery allows us to make even smaller incisions with greater precision,” one surgeon said. “By using the robotic arms, we have more degrees of articulation than with our natural wrists."
“The primary reason I reported these events was to help prevent this from happening to anyone else again, especially women fellows in the field of cardiology,” the victim said.
A dual chambered ventricle created with focused rotary jet spinning. Image courtesy of the Disease Biophysics Group and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Focused rotary jet spinning appears to hold some key advantages over 3D printing and other techniques. Engineers at Harvard think it could represent the future of organ biofabrication.
Anita W. Asgar, MD, director, transcatheter valve therapy research at Montréal Heart Institute, discusses advances and new technology for mitral and tricuspid valves at the 2022 Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) meeting.
