Heart Failure

Event

10th EACTS Mechanical Circulatory Support Summit.

November 19, 2026

Thursday, November 19, 2026 – Saturday, November 21, 2026 @ 8:00 am – 12:15 pm – The 10th EACTS Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) Summit brings together leading international experts in heart failure and mechanical circulatory...

JANS Article

Real-World Outcomes After Simplified M-TEER Repair Under Sole TEE Guidance

September 17, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

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....

Video

Modified Trapdoor Technique for Direct Reimplantation of ALCAPA

September 15, 2026 | Matej Nosal…

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,...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 173: Uniportal Robotics in the UAE

September 10, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

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...

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Dapagliflozin and Acute Kidney Injury Following, Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

September 3, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

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...

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The Right Ventricular Response to Lung Resection

October 14, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An extremely interesting research question abutting cardiac physiology, and a manuscript that may generate future additional clinical research.

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Association of Optimism With Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality

October 12, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

The association of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with optimism was assessed in this meta-analysis. Optimism was associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular events (ROR 0.65) and a decrease...

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CABG Improves Outcomes in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: 10-Year Follow-Up of the STICH Trial

September 14, 2019 | Edward Savage

This study reports ten year outcomes of the STICH trial. Comparing CABG to medical therapy groups, the authors note that CABG reduced all cause, cardiovascular, and heart failure hospitalizations. This...

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Improving Heart Muscle Function

August 31, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

The growth and replication of cardiomyocytes derived from stem cells is insufficient to permit regeneration of functioning heart tissue. In this study, the authors used stem cell-derived epicardial cells to...

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Commentary: Mitral Valve Repair With Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: Yes! But Who?

August 23, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Excellent and brief summary of the debate on functional mitral regurgitation on mechanical support.

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Reactive Vasodilation Predicts Mortality in Primary Systemic Light Chain (AL) Amyloidosis

August 13, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The translational value for cardiac transplantation of this prospective multi-centre clinical study of vasodilation in amyloidosis remains to be evaluated.

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Long-Term Transplant Outcomes of Donor Hearts With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

June 4, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Left ventricular ejection fraction was not a predictor of outcomes after heart transplant, and was normal in all recipients at 1 year posttransplant. The reliance on generic transthoracic echocardiography for...

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In Global News: Prevalence of Spin in RCT Reports, Setting the Standard for Teamwork, and the Continued Public Health Challenge of Asbestos

May 24, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care and General Interest Despite being the leading cause of death in the US, heart disease was the most-Googled disease in only one state: Maine. A study that sought...

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