Adult Cardiac Literature Watch - Third Quarter 2007

Evaluation of coronary artery bypass grafts and native coronary arteries using 64-slice multidetector computed tomography.
Onuma Y, Tanabe K, Chihara R, et al.
Am Heart J 2007;154:519-26.

Guidelines for performing a comprehensive epicardial echocardiography examination: recommendations of the American society of echocardiography and the society of cardiovascular anesthesiologists.
Reeves ST, Glas KE, Eltzschig H, et al.
Anesth Analg 2007;105:22-28

No articles selected this quarter.

Controversies in cardiovascular medicine: surgical myectomy remains the primary treatment option for severely symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Maron BJ.
Circulation 2007;116:196-206.
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Controversies in cardiovascular medicine: most fully informed patients choose septal ablation over septal myectomy.
Fifer MA
Circulation 2007;116:207-16.

Beyond unfractionated heparin and warfarin: current and future advances.
Hirsh J, O’Donnell M, Eikelboom JW.
Circulation 2007;116;552-60.

None selected this quarter.

None selected this quarter.

Comparison of clinical and economic outcomes of two antibiotic prophylaxis regimens for sternal wound infection in high-risk patients following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a prospective randomised double-blind controlled trial.
Dhadwal K, Al-Ruzzeh S, Athanasiou T, et al.
Heart 2007;93:1126-33.

Multivariable prediction of renal insufficiency developing after cardiac surgery.
Brown JR, Cochran RP, Leavitt BJ, et al.
Circulation 2007;116[Suppl I]:I-139-I-143.

The incidental finding of a patent foramen ovale during cardiac surgery: should it always be repaired?
Sukernik MR, Bennett-Guerrero E.
Anesth Analg 2007;105:602-10.

Diabetes mellitus as a predictor for radial artery vasoreactivity in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.
Choudhary BP, Antoniades C, Brading AF, Galione A, Channon K, Taggart DP.
J Am Coll Card 2007;50:1047-53.

Atrial electrograms after cardiac surgery: survey of clinical practice.
Miller JN, Drew BJ.
Am J Crit Care 2007;16:350-56.

Application of endograft to treat thoracic aortic pathologies: A single center experience.
Rodriguez JA, Olsen DM, Shtutman A, et al.
J Vasc Surg 2007;46:413-20.

No articles selected this quarter.

Long-term predictors of descending aorta aneurysmal change in patients with aortic dissection.
Song JM, Kim SD, Kim JH, et al.
J Am Coll Card 2007;50:799-804.

Partial thrombosis of the false lumen in patients with acute type B aortic dissection.
Tsai TT, Evangelista A, Nienabe CA, et al.
New Eng J Med 2007;357:349-59.

Aortic diameter ≥ 5.5 cm is not a good predictor of type A aortic dissection: observations from the international registry of acute aortic dissection (IRAD).
Pape LA, Tsai TT, Isselbacher EM, et al.
Circulation 2007;116:1120-27.

Use of a continuous-flow device in patients awaiting heart transplantation.
Miller LW, Pagani FD, Russell SD, et al.
New Eng J Med 2007;357:885-96.

A decade of short-term outcomes in post–cardiac surgery ventricular assist device implantation: data from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ national cardiac database.
Hernandez AF, Grab JD, Gammie JS, et al.
Circulation 2007;116:606-12.

Outcomes of left ventricular assist device implantation as destination therapy in the post-REMATCH era: implications for patient selection.
Lietz K, Long JW, Kfoury AG, et al.
Circulation 2007;116:497-505.

Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.
Samani NJ, Erdmann J, Hall AS, et al.
New Eng J Med 2007;357:443-53.

Myocardial Infarction:

Percutaneous left ventricular assist devices in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock.
Thiele H, Smalling RW, Schuler GC.
Eur Heart J 2007;28:2057-63.

Anesthetic preconditioning combined with postconditioning offers no additional benefit over preconditioning or postconditioning alone.
Deyhimy DI, Fleming NW, Brodkin IG, et al.
Anesth Analg 2007;105:316-24.

None selected this quarter.

Metabolic syndrome increases operative mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.
Echahidi N, Pibarot P, Després JP, et al.
J Am Coll Card 2007;50:843-51.

Improved neurologic outcome after implementing evidence-based guidelines for cardiac surgery.
Suojaranta-Ylinen RT, Roine RO, Vento AE, Niskanen MM, Salmenperä MT.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2007;21:529-34.

Area socioeconomic status and mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: The role of hospital volume.
Kim C, Diez Roux AV, Hofer TP, et al.
Am Heart J 2007;154:385-90.

Impact of preoperative anemia on outcome in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Kulier A, Levin J, Moser R, et al.
Circulation 2007;116:471-79.

Heart Retransplantation.
Johnson MR, Aaronson KD, Canter CE, et al.
Am J Transplant 2007;7:2075–81.

None selected this quarter.

Valve-in-a-valve concept for transcatheter minimally invasive repeat xenograft implantation.
Walther T, Falk V, Dewey T, et al.
J Am Coll Card 2007;50:56-60.

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis in high-risk patients using the second- and current third-generation self-expanding CoreValve prosthesis: device success and 30-day clinical outcome.
Grube E, Schuler G, Buellesfeld L, et al
J Am Coll Card 2007;50:69-76.