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Cardiac

November 11, 2020
Mohamad Bashir moderates a discussion on the use of sutureless aortic valves in patients with bicuspid aortic valves.
November 11, 2020
Leanne Harling moderates a discussion with David Taggart and Phillippe Kolh on the future of coronary revascularization.
November 9, 2020
Valve-sparing root replacement with neo-aortic valve repair is feasible in patients presenting with late aneurysmal growth and dilatation of the neo-aortic root following a pediatric Ross procedure, even in the presence of concomitant valvular disease requiring replacement or reconstruction.
November 9, 2020
This video demonstrates an extra-anatomical bypass for the repair of an adult distal arch restenosis.
November 9, 2020
In a press release early this morning, Pfizer and BioNTech accounced the results of their vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 in the first interim efficacy analysis of its Phase 3 clinical study.
November 6, 2020
This original article by Linardi et al. analysis the outcome of slow versus fast rewarming after hypothermic circulatory arrest in a rat model. They observed reduced inflammatory and oxidative stress and also a higher cerebral blood flow within the slow rewarming group compared to the fast rewarming group.
November 4, 2020
In this Beat podcast episode, Joel Dunning discusses the EXCEL trial and European guidelines, percutaneous interventions with coronary bypass surgery, management of aortic emergencies during COVID-19, and osimertinib in positive resected cancer.
November 3, 2020
The video demonstrates a mitral valve commissuroplasty performed robotically, and emphasizes that commissural prolapse often leads to a complex jet with an unclear mechanism of regurgitation, while showing that the surgical technique to correct the prolapse is straightforward.
November 3, 2020
The authors present a case of ascending aorta and rapid deployment aortic valve replacement through a J-ministernotomy approach in an elderly patient.
October 31, 2020
This hard hitting article summarises the current situation with the Excel trial and the situation regarding the evidence of PCI vs CABG in left main stem disease.  It exposes a legion of errors and scandals which were first exposed by Professor David Taggart then the BBC then EACTS. 

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