This is an observational outcome study for the comparative effectiveness of SAVR–TAVR procedures for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis at 93 Italian centers.
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Cardiac
August 14, 2015
August 14, 2015
Edward Bender reviews a new iBook from the cardiac surgery team at the University of Washington. Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Primer is a comprehensive resource for CT surgeons and allied health personnel.
August 14, 2015
The Texas Heart Institute reports its experience with 27 patients with prior continuous flow LVADs who had undergone varying degrees of device explantation. Although the numbers are small, the explantation methods ranged from near-complete device removal to driveline transection and removal.
August 13, 2015
Recorded via Google Hangouts, Joel Dunning and Ahmad Al Khaddour discuss the current state of cardiothoracic surgery in Syria.
August 12, 2015
Arie Blitz of the McAllen Heart Hospital, Texas, takes an in-depth look at extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
August 12, 2015
A single institution retrospectively reviewed the correlation of preoperative serum albumin level with outcomes after LVAD implantation from 2006 to 2014. A lower albumin level was associated with a significant increase in postop renal failure and prolonged hospitalization, but not overall short-term and long-term survival.
August 10, 2015
This video demonstrates the author’s technique for re-operation on type A aortic dissection.
August 6, 2015
Filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, a panel of experts discusses how the heart team should respond to cardiac arrests that occur after cardiac surgery.
August 6, 2015
This retrospective analysis of the BTT continuous flow (CF) LVAD experience from Harefield Hospital addresses the question: "What are the predictors of the requirement for an RVAD at the time of LVAD implantation?" Of the 152 patients included in the study, 23% underwent RVAD implantation.
August 3, 2015
In this manuscript the authors describe their findings in a retrospective review of prospectively obtained 5-year follow up data on 353 patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with the CoreValve prosthesis in 8 Italian centres.Transfemoral access was used in 317 patients (89.8%); in the rest of the patients in whom the tran