Erica Curcio

Interesting retrospective study evaluating the risk factors affecting the progression of ascending aorta dilatation in 133 patients with bicuspid aortic valve, focusing on aortic morphology and cusp fusion pattern. Dilatation...

The trial was a randomised, prospective, non-blinded, multi-institutional study of patients undergoing surgery for severe ischaemic mitral regurgitation with or without coronary revascularisation,” Dr Acker reported. A total of 251...

This study examined the rate of overdiagnosis (detection rate of indolent tumors) of lung cancer in the NLST. They found that 18% of all lung cancers detected were of the...

This study of 389 pts receiving a continuous flow LVAD evaluated the risk of thromoembolic (TE)complications associated with preop AF. TE occured in 25% of pts; freedom from TE at...

This behavioral modification study covered 6 months at a single institution during which 144 pts underwent 510 transfusion events. Cardiac surgeons agreed on a Hgb cutoff value of 8 as...

Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have taken a potentially wildly complicated problem and come up with a (relatively) simple solution by injecting the heart with gallium, a chemically stable...

This meta-analysis compared outcomes of PCI vs CABG in patients with multivessel disease, evaluating studies that were not individually powered to detect survival differences. 6 RTC including 6055 pts were...

The use of pharmaceutical strategies to prevent contrast-induced acute kidney injury continues to be an unresolved matter. In this manuscript the authors describe their findings of a systematic review with...