How Cerebral Embolic Protection Devices are Beneficial in TAVR?

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Keystone Heart
Keystone Heart is focused on protecting the brain
from emboli to reduce the risk of brain infarcts
during TAVR, surgical valve replacement, atrial
fibrillation ablation and other structural heart
procedures.
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Warning Signs of Heart Attack
Any disaster comes with a warning sign, usually.
The human body has its own way of expressing the
occurrence of possible disaster, especially the
heart attack or myocardial infarction. The blood
flow to the heart is blocked, a heart attack
occurs. The blockage occurs mostly due to the
accumulation of fat and cholesterol in the
arteries that carry the blood. This leads to
damage of the heart muscle.
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The common warning signs of heart attack are
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Pressure, tightness and pain in the chest

• Sometimes, this symptom is mistaken as the effect
  of gas. One should definitely raise an alarm
  without any delay, if the pain is excruciating
  enough and is felt like a squeeze in the chest or
  even in the arms, further spreading to the neck,
  jaw and at the back side..

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Nausea

• Feeling the urge to throw up is another symptom
  which however, is often associated with upset
  stomach, indigestion, acidity and gas. One may
  even feel some pain in the stomach and that again
  is mistaken by the stomach problem.

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Shortness of breath

• One may also feel short of breath as if, had been
  running or been into some physical activity for
  quite some time. In case, this happens really
  during the physical activity, the symptom may be
  taken for granted.

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Fatigue or Extreme Tiredness
If all of a sudden, without any reason, the
person starts feeling fatigue, it has to be
reported as an emergency. This happens as the
heart finds it difficult to pump due to
interrupted blood supply. The body feels extreme
tiredness due to the lack of oxygen.
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Light-headedness
Any heart surgery comprises of a lot probable
complications that pose threat to life in some or
the other way. The doctors however, take all the
precautions for their prevention, like in the
procedure Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
(TAVI), cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices
are used to avoid any possible stroke led by any
clot, bubble or debris released during the
procedure.
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