Niv Ad of the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute in Morgantown, USA, argues for surgical ablation for mitral valve surgery patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Cardiac
December 18, 2018
Om P. Yadava and David Taggart discuss contemporary issues in CABG at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons.
December 18, 2018
The authors, using the STS/ACC TVT Registry, analyzed the the occurrence of patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) in 62,215 patients enrolled between 2014 and 2017. They found that severe and moderate PPM occurred in 12% and 25% of patients, respectively.
December 18, 2018
This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness of TAVR versus SAVR in 3110 intermediate-risk aortic stenosis patients from the PARTNER-2 trial. Using a Markov model, the authors found that TAVR is economically dominant from the perspective of lifetime cost-effectiveness in the US healthcare system.
December 17, 2018
Grant and colleagues studied short- and midterm outcomes for 639 matched pairs of patients who underwent mitral valve surgery by either sternotomy or a minimally invasive approach at three UK institutions between 2008 and 2016. Patients were included even if they underwent concomitant tricuspid valve surgery or ablation for atrial fibrillation.
December 17, 2018
The authors present an extremely challenging case of en bloc heart and liver transplantation in a patient with severe heart and liver failure due to failing Fontan circulation.
December 13, 2018
Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Shanda Blackmon moderates a discussion on the role of women in cardiothoracic surgery.
December 13, 2018
Torsten Doenst of the University Hospital Jena in Germany presents the argument for minimally invasive techniques over median sternotomy in the treatment of mitral valve disease.
December 11, 2018
Takagi and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled trials comparing on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). They evaluated only trials with follow-up periods of five years or longer, and they pooled hazard ratios rather than odds ratios, where possible.
December 11, 2018
This video demonstrates a proximal anastomosis. The authors detail the procedure in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements.