Heart Failure
This video discusses the three pillars of precision medicine in cardiogenic shock and the latest research. First, machine learning phenotyping can identify distinct and biologically meaningful subgroups within the heterogeneous shock population. Second, causal-inference machine...
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...
Disclosure This presentation describes the off-label use of the Centrimag™ Ventricular Assist Device (Abbott). Objectives Right ventricular (RV) failure is a life-threatening complication after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation....
The authors utilized a retrospective review of the UNOS database from 2007-2014 to evaluate the impact of donor sequence number (DSN) on outcomes. Specifically, they interestingly identified that survival is...
Patient Care and General Interest The British Heart Foundation reports that the number of premature deaths related to cardiovascular disease has risen in the UK for the first time in...
Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Jill Ley of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, USA, moderates a discussion on evidence-based recommendations for movement following...
This educational video explains the crucial operative steps in completing a transaortic septal myectomy for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Shown in this video is the presentation of a...
Carmelo Milano, chief of cardiac surgery and the surgical director of the left ventricular assist device (LVAD) program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA, discusses the...
In this state-of-the-art review review, the authors summarize current knowledge of anatomic, structural, metabolic, functional, and hemodynamic characteristics of the right ventricle (RV) in both health and disease. Highlights of...
The investigators published the final analysis of the MOMENTUM 3 trial comparing the fully magnetically levitated centrifugal continuous-flow HeartMate 3 pump to the mechanical-bearing axial continuous-flow HeartMate II pump. The...



