Cardiac - Physiology
In this Dutch multicenter, double-blind trial, 784 adults undergoing elective cardiac surgery received dapagliflozin 10 mg (n=392) or placebo (n=392), starting one day preoperatively for four doses. Acute kidney injury within seven days occurred in...
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...
Cardiac surgeons increasingly exclude the left atrial appendage during operations in patients who have never had atrial fibrillation, often because the appendage is accessible and presumed expendable. This Europace Viewpoint...
The clinical problem addressed in this study is bleeding in patients who undergo ECMO. The authors endeavor to address the issue through a quantitative cohort study by reflecting on how...
Professor Pinto raises, in this editorial, a number of important points with regards to heart failure. Starting from a succinct definition of classification by ejection fraction, proceeds to analyse the...