This joint consensus document aims to facilitate triage and management of patients with aortic dissection, rupture, and malperfusion syndromes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The following issues have been addressed in the care of COVID-19–positive or status unknown patients with aortic emergencies:
1. Management and triage
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Cardiac
October 30, 2020
Filmed at the 2020 STS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward M. Bender of Stanford University in California, USA, moderates a discussion on how the internet plays a role in establishing and growing cardiothoracic careers.
October 28, 2020
In this episode hosted by Joel Dunning, James Cook University Hospital, UK, news topics include the recent virtual EACTS conference, surgery after TAVR or MitraClip, BIMA vs LIMA, surprising cases, pectus excavatum in the United Kingdom, and a brand new diagnosis you may never have heard of before: slipping rib syndrome.
October 28, 2020
In this interview, Shruti Jayakumar and Martin Elliott discuss his path to and experience in congenital heart surgery.
October 28, 2020
Tom C. Nguyen, Patrick McCarthy, and Borut Gersak discuss indications for and the benefits of using sutureless valves.
October 27, 2020
The authors demonstrate, in this video, a technique to manage the contained rupture of wrapped ascending aorta by redo sternotomy, replacement of aortic valve, replacement of ascending aorta, and coronary artery bypass grafting.
October 26, 2020
This video demonstrates the successful management of a complicated case of severe mitral regurgitation after a long ECMO course through ministernotomy.
October 26, 2020
Within the limitations of a meta-analysis, a useful work advancing that PCI may have a hitherto masked or hidden mortality
October 23, 2020
Kawamura et al. present a retrospective multicenter study of 84 patients who underwent concomitant CABG to aortic surgery and anastomosis of the 109 CABG graft anastomosed either to the native aorta or to the vascular prosthesis.
October 20, 2020
In this tutorial video, the authors present the clinical case of a young patient with severe aortic regurgitation that underwent a bicuspid aortic valve repair with external annuloplasty.