Treating congestive heart failure with the help of AcuNav Volume ICE technology
Treating congestive heart failure with the help of AcuNav Volume ICE technology
“We can’t do this [operate] because you’re too old and too weak.” 86-year-old patient Mr. Beam was told nothing could be done for his congestive heart failure until he met Dr. Singh. Dr. Singh used AcuNav Volume ICE technology to stop Mr. Beam’s leaky heart valve.
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0.72 -> I think it was a random weekday. I got a phone
call like I normally do say hey we got this really
5.28 -> great guy and and he's been having problems with
congestive heart failure. He told us that he at
10.16 -> one point was told that nothing could be done for
him.
13.068 -> They ran me through the regimen and then took me into a little room
16.993 -> and they said we can't
do this because you're too old and too weak.
21.645 -> Well well it broke my heart but it is what it is.
25.664 -> In the meantime just about the time the pandemic started
my granddaughter took us out of where we were living
33.041 -> and brought us here to her home.
35.68 -> She introduced me to the UC Davis medical
system.
40.049 -> MitraClip was originally invented as an alternative and the goal was to go in and just where the leaflet wasn't making contact
48.4 -> to make contact and to create a seal that wasn't
there before.
51.58 -> The entire procedure is performed
54.24 -> by using x-ray or fluoroscopy
or we use transesophageal echocardiography.
60.916 -> So a ultrasound
63.12 -> similar to an endoscopy the ultrasound goes
into your esophagus or your food pipe and takes
67.76 -> a look at your heart from behind and you get high
definition pictures of all the heart compartments
73.36 -> all the heart valves and all the components of the
heart valve.
76.433 -> They took me in the hospital to prep me for the pre-op.
They tried to put a scope down my throat and couldn't because I had a high little
84.8 -> hernia and the scope wouldn't go down my throat
without puncturing my esophagus.
90.282 -> And so now all of a sudden you know we went from
having normally what we see is crystal clear images
96.8 -> now we just we couldn't see anything. We had a series
of three patients that you know couldn't get a
103.28 -> transesophageal echo for a variety of reasons and
in those patients we did AcuNav Volume for the ICE.
111.6 -> Intracardiac echo as it and we call it ICE
is basically a catheter that gets inserted
119.52 -> through an artery or vein.
Siemens Healthineers is leading the way with this and
124.4 -> was the first to market with their device. In a
beautiful manner they were able to reconstruct
128.96 -> imaging for the whole mitral valve and with
one clip right at the area of his pathology
135.2 -> with AcuNav Volume for the ICE we were literally
able to target it to exactly where the leaking
140.8 -> was coming from and then probably the biggest
thing was just a smile on his face and and you
144.88 -> know that's the goal of the procedure is to help
him get his quality of life back and I think we
149.04 -> were able to achieve that in this case.
150.861 -> I’m good from head to toe I’m ready to go rock and roll
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOa_N_r0VIs