CSI FOUNDATION

The CSI Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that has been formed to aid the development of this field worldwide. Primarily, we aim to achieve this by encouraging and promoting research in the field and by providing training initiatives and educational opportunities to doctors, technicians and nurses. We support and promote global and multidisciplinary collaboration, particularly in regions that currently lack progress and infrastructure for diagnosis and effective treatment... Years ago, many patients with structural, congenital or valvar heart disease suffered from issues that carried fatal prognoses. However, since the first successful transcatheter closure of an ASD in 1975, the field of interventional cardiovascular therapeutics has developed to a point where catheter-based percutaneous treatment of heart disease in alert, awake patients has become the norm in most places. What does this mean for patients? A minimally-invasive, catheter-based, nonsurgical treatment of..

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