At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on various cardiac topics, including mitral annular calcification (MAC), mitral regurgitation (MR), reverse remodeling in ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR),...
The development of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has revolutionized cardiac surgery (1). To improve the outcome of patients undergoing cardiac surgery, a task force has developed evidence-based guidelines for the use...