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🫀 **Scientific Update: Corvia Device & Interatrial Shunt Innovations** 🫀 The Corvia device represents a groundbreaking advancement in the management of heart failure, particularly for patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The device operates through a mechanism known as **dynamic decompression**. By creating a shunt between the left atrium (LA) and the right atrium (RA), it effectively reduces the pressure overload in the LA. This shunting of blood from the LA to the RA helps alle

Hepatopulmonary Syndrome A 70-year-old woman with advanced liver cirrhosis (MASH) was shifted to the ICU because of worsening hypoxia in the supine position. A-aO2 >20 mm Hg in seated position. The bubble test was carried out Air bubbles appeared in LV after 7 beats, suggesting hepatopulmonary syndrome and pulmonary shunt due to pulmonary dilatation and AV shunts. Prognosis is poor, and the patient was not fit for liver transplantation | إستشاري امراض الباطنة والكبد د محمد الجمال