Patients entered into a clinical trial of TAVR and patients in two registries were evaluated for possible subclinical leaflet thrombosis in their bioprosthetic valves. 40% of the patients in the TAVR trial and 13% of registry patients were found to have such thrombosis. The risk was lower in patients anticoagulated with warfarin. Therpeutic antico
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Cardiac
October 4, 2015
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Past President Jose Pomar interviews current President Martin Grabenwoger on key features of the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting.
October 3, 2015
Pieter Kappetein, Secretary General of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), previews the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
September 30, 2015
Ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is a subset of functional mitral regurgitation (MR) that has the potential to impact an increasing number of patients in the future. This is in the context of a worldwide population, which continues to live longer with improved survival after myocardial infarction.
September 30, 2015
In an interview filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Tom Nguyen speaks with Michael Reardon, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston, TX.
September 29, 2015
Vinnie Bapat of Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK, discusses the Edwards FORTIS device, a transcatheter mitral valve device.
September 29, 2015
Researchers from Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, argue that multiarterial CABG lowers mortality compared with PCI.
September 29, 2015
This systematic review compares three minimally invasive techniques for surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation: the endocardial Cox-Maze procedure, epicardial surgical ablation and an epicardial surgical and catheter-based endocardial ablation hybrid procedure.
September 28, 2015
This video shows a robotic-assisted repair of an anterior mitral valve leaflet perforation from endocarditis and ruptured posterior chordae tendinae.
September 26, 2015
In this RCT, patients at increased risk for cardiac surgery requiring CPB were assigned to steroids at the time of anesthetic induction and again at the time of CPB induction or no steroids. Primary outcomes were 30-day mortality and major morbidity. Steriods had no effect on the primary outcomes. There was no evidence that stero