Anthony A. Bavry, MD, MPH

Use of aspirin after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) improves graft patency, but administration of other antiplatelet agents has yielded equivocal results. Our objective was to test whether administration of prasugrel after CABG...

Use of aspirin after coronary...

12/01/2020

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Patient Risk Assessment for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement at Veterans Health Administration Hospitals

07/31/2020

David J. Cohen , MD, MPH, MSc;

Santiago Garcia , MD;

Lucas Burke , MD;

Leo Gozdecki , DO;

Anthony A. Bavry , MD, MPH;

Demetrios Doukas , DO;

Kendrick A. Shunk , MD, PhD;

Cara Joyce , PhD;

Frances Weaver , PhD;

Verghese Mathew , MD;

Our objective was to compare patient-level risk assessment at eight Veterans Affairs hospitals in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement with patients included in the Society for Thoracic Surgeons/American College of...

Our objective was to compare...

07/31/2020

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Transvalvular Gradients for Balloon-Expandable and Self-Expanding Valves

09/30/2020

Stefan Stortecky , MD;

Stephan Windecker , MD;

Dharam J. Kumbhani , MD, SM;

Anthony A. Bavry , MD, MPH;

Seyed Hossein Aalaei-Andabili , MD;

Taishi Okuno , MD;

Masahiko Asami , MD;

Jonas Lanz , MD;

Thomas Pilgrim , MD;

Self-expanding valves have been associated with superior hemodynamics versus balloon-expandable valves. Our aim was to compare invasive gradients between valve types for similarly sized valves in 499 patients who underwent transcatheter...

Self-expanding valves have been...

09/30/2020

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Video

Percutaneous Treatment of Symptomatic LVAD Outflow Graft Obstruction

06/01/2022

Dharam J. Kumbhani , MD, SM;

Anthony A. Bavry , MD, MPH;

Faris G. Araj , MD;

Robert M. Morlend , MD;

Matthias Peltz , MD;

A 60-year-old female underwent LVAD implantation during which a 1-mm Gore-Tex sheet was used to cover the device and outflow graft to prevent future sternal re-entry injury. Seven years later, she developed low-flow alarms with a pattern of...

A 60-year-old female underwent...

06/01/2022

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Images

Percutaneous Treatment of Symptomatic Left Ventricular Assist Device Outflow Graft Obstruction

06/01/2022

Faris G. Araj , MD;

Robert M. Morlend , MD;

Matthias Peltz , MD;

Dharam J. Kumbhani , MD, SM;

Anthony A. Bavry , MD, MPH;

A 60-year-old female underwent a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implant during which a 1-mm Gore-Tex sheet (Gore Medical) was used to cover the device and outflow graft to prevent future sternal re-entry injury. Seven years later, she...

A 60-year-old female underwent a...

06/01/2022

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

08/01/2008

Deepak L. Bhatt , MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI;

Anthony A. Bavry , MD, MPH;

Urgent coronary reperfusion unequivocally saves lives in the setting of acute coronary syndromes, however for most patients, the goal of percutaneous coronary intervention remains the control of anginal symptoms.1,2 As a standalone procedure,...

Urgent coronary reperfusion...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology