The authors conducted a retrospective review of two concurrent groups undergoing elective aortic transverse hemiarch reconstruction: Group DHCA underwent deep hypothermic circulatory arrest with retrograde cerebral perfusion; group MHCA underwent moderate hypothermic (>25 degrees C) circulatory arrest with antegrade cerebral perfusion.
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May 10, 2015
Patients with persisent or long-standing atrial fibrillation requiring mitral valve surgery were randomized to either surgical ablation or no ablation. Surgical ablation patients were further randomized to pulmonary vein isolation or biatrial MAZE. More surgical ablation patients were free from atrial fibrillation than control.
May 10, 2015
This is a follow up study by the investigators on aortic valve opening during continuous flow LVAD support. Their earlier study looked at the rate of aortic insufficiency during CF LVAD support therapy comparing patients who achieved aortic valve opening during rest versus those who did not.
May 10, 2015
In this manuscript, the authors describe their findings of an extensive literature review of 12 mostly observational, retrospective studies evaluating the use of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in patients after CABG. They conclude that there is no clear consensus regarding the use DAPT in patients undergoing CABG.
May 8, 2015
Cardiac surgery is at a crossroad. It is the responsibility of the larger cardiac surgical fraternity to reignite the passion shown by the pioneers and succeeding generations of cardiothoracic surgeons.
May 7, 2015
A panel of five experts discuss the use of ECMO in a roundtable discussion, which was filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
May 6, 2015
Mattia Glauber of the Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy, discusses the use of central cannulation in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.
May 5, 2015
This video demonstrates the use of a Thoraflex device (frozen elephant trunk) as a "one-stage" solution for chronic Type B aortic dissection, with subsequent complete remodeling of the aorta.
May 5, 2015
In this paper, Nilsson et al present the first international survival prediction model for heart-transplanted patients. The findings from this study show that a flexible non-linear artificial neural network model can be used to predict both short- and longterm mortality with higher accuracy.
April 30, 2015
Patients with LV dysfunction who underwent complete surgical revascularization were evaluated with angiograms, echo, and MR (evaluating late vascular enhancement with contrast). About 70% of dysfunctional segments segments demonstrated improved wall motion after revascularization, and this was unrelated to the degree of late vascular enhancement evi