TCT-738 Optimizing cost savings in minimalist transfemoral TAVR – closing the gap

Late False Aneurysm Formation After Transfemoral TAVR.

A n 82-year old women presented with a non– ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. She had undergone coronary bypass surgery 25 years earlier, and a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) 28 months previously. The TAVR procedure was reported to be complicated only by vascular access problems. Urgent coronary angiography at time of the current presentation showed stenosis in a saphen...

Closing the gap...next steps in optimizing therapy.

Three approaches to long-term HIV treatment strategies that are considered necessary to complement and extend the advances made in AIDS research are discussed. These approaches are: access to viral resistance testing, creating alternative forms of existing drugs to help combat the problems faced by people with advanced disease, and placing renewed emphasis on immune restoration therapy. Physici...

Closing the Technology Gap? Closing the Technology Gap?

This paper focuses on the dimensions shaping the dynamics of technology. We present a model where the knowledge stock of a country grows over time as a function of three main factors: its innovation intensity, its technological infrastructures and its human capital. The latter two variables contribute to determine the absorptive capacity of a country as well as its innovative ability. Based on ...

Closing the Generation Gap

I describe recent examples of phase transitions in four-dimensional M theory vacua in which the net generation number changes. There are naive obstructions to transitions lifting chiral matter, but loopholes exist which enable us to avoid them. I first review how chirality arises in the heterotic limit of M theory, previously known forms of topology change in string theory, and chirality-changi...

Closing the Gender Gap