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August 2024 Br J Cardiol 2024;31:92–7 doi:10.5837/bjc.2024.031

Artificial intelligence in heart valve disease: diagnosis, innovation and treatment. A state-of-the-art review

Paul Bamford, Amr Abdelrahman, Christopher J Malkin, Michael S Cunnington, Daniel J Blackman, Noman Ali

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Introduction Medicine has benefited from increasingly advanced diagnostic and therapeutic options, which enable more tailored patient-specific strategies, with improvements in both efficacy and safety. Artificial intelligence (AI) was first researched in 1955 when John McCarthy proposed a project that attempted to “make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.”1 In the 1970s, a new probabilistic model was developed that could simulate the process of expert decision-making by assigning weight to every clinical finding to indicate its possibility of occur

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September 2021 Br J Cardiol 2021;28:89–94 doi:10.5837/bjc.2021.037

Real-life outcomes and readmissions after a TAVI procedure in a Glasgow population

Joanna Osmanska, David Murdoch

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Introduction Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common primary valve disease requiring intervention in Europe and North America. The prevalence of AS increases with age, and degenerative AS is the most common type followed by AS secondary to a congenital bicuspid aortic valve.1,2 Prognosis of severe symptomatic AS is poor, with a reported 30–50% mortality at one year for patients who do not undergo any intervention.3,4 The optimal management of severe symptomatic AS in patients, often with multiple comorbidities, requires a multi-disciplinary team approach. The conservative approach with medical treatment of symptoms is associated with extre

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September 2019 Br J Cardiol 2019;26:99–100 doi:10.5837/bjc.2019.028

My 60-year relationship with aortic stenosis

Anthony P C Bacon, Harry Rosen, Neil Ruparelia

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Dr Anthony P C Bacon Introduction It may be invidious to write about oneself and one’s own disorders, but perhaps exception can be made when there is a gap of 60 years between writing about a condition and reporting one’s own case of it at the age of 94. In my case (APCB), the prospect of a general anaesthetic accompanied recurrent cholecystitis and dyspnoea, so I dusted off my stethoscope and on listening to my heart, I was somewhat taken aback to find that I had developed aortic stenosis. Early career Having qualified in 1947, and following 18 months in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in Germany in 1948–9, I began work again in th

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