Fred Mohr of the Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany, discusses the benefits of using a ministernotomy approach to aortic valve surgery.
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Cardiac
October 29, 2015
Using University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study data, the authors evaluated marital status at the time of cardiac surgery and subsequent survival or deterioration in the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) independently. At follow-up, those who were married had a 19.4% incidence of death or new disability, which was simila
October 27, 2015
Steffen Pfeiffer of Paracelsus Medical University, Nurnberg, Germany, delivers a talk on sutureless prostheses and their role in minimally invasive aortic valve replacement.
October 22, 2015
Domenico Pagano moderates a discussion on conducting research during cardiothoracic surgery training, which was recorded at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
October 21, 2015
Aung Oo of the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital delivers a talk on decision-making in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
October 20, 2015
This video presents a repair of a mitral valve in a 73-year-old man with history of PND and one episode of pulmonary edema. The patient suffered from severe eccentric mitral regurgitation due to ruptured chordae and a thickened enlarged P2 segment.
Initial Surgical versus Conservative Strategies in Patients with Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis
October 19, 2015
The investigators in this registry study enrolled 3815 patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis. Patients underwent either surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) or conservative therapy. In order to increase comparability, they used propensity score matching to create two more similar groups.
October 18, 2015
In this manuscript the authors report on the results of a retrospective propensity score analysis in 102 matched pairs of patients, considered to be in a “grey zone” of surgical risk for either TAVI (Edwards Sapiens, Medtronic CoreValve or Symetis Acurate TA prosthesis) or aortic valve replacement (AVR) with a sutureless prosthesis (Sorin Perceal).
October 16, 2015
Using an anonymous survey, surgeons at a single institution were asked to rate the impact of 9 stressors on performance and outcomes. Complex cases, rarely performed cases, and lack of adequate assistance were assocated with the most stress. A stress-related intraoperative complication occurrence was reported by 40%. More than 80% indicated that t
October 15, 2015
This video demonstrates the superior transeptal approach to the left atrium in a patient requiring mitral and tricuspid valve repairs.