Heart Failure
This segment provides an overview of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO), including its mission, membership benefits, leadership structure, and role in advancing the science and technology of artificial organs, organ support systems,...
This single-center, real-world study compared a simplified, fluoroscopy-free mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) workflow guided solely by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) against the conventional approach using combined fluoroscopic and TEE guidance....
This video demonstrates the modified trapdoor technique for direct reimplantation of an anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. Case Presentation Following cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a three-month-old, 4.7 kg infant,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...
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...
Find it here: The SCTS “Take on the Experts” Video Competition On Tuesday, March 12, the top four cardiac and top three thoracic videos submitted for this session of the...
Patient Care and General Interest The American Heart Association has released a scientific statement summarizing emerging knowledge about sensitization after heart transplant. The National Health Service England in the UK...
Patient Care and General Interest As part of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women program, a patient shares her story of discovering she had rheumatic heart disease after...
In the February issue of The Annals, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons published the first annual report after the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (Intermacs) joined the STS...
In a letter to healthcare providers, the US FDA summarized a recent evaluation of a postapproval study of the Abiomed Impella RP system. In clinical trials, 73% of patients survived...
A succinct handy comment on a small series of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) that is quite useful for a fast read on LVAD for surgeons and nonsurgeons.
...Gilles Dreyfus and colleagues share a decade of mitral reconstruction for degenerative posterior leaflet pathology in Harefield and Monaco (38 per year was the formidable average). The supplementary video is...
Interesting small randomized controlled trial that will definitely be widely discussed.
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