Valve Disease
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, California, USA, and a...
This surgical video demonstrates they key steps, safeguards, and pitfalls of a Konno-Rastan aortoventriculoplasty. The patient underwent a fifth redo sternotomy after a complicated previous surgical history. In addition, previous...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
This talk features Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, a senior research scientist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Valve Science Center, Minnesota, USA, delivering a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients:...
In this retrospective study of 170 patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension at a high-volume center, 25 percent developed recurrent moderate or greater tricuspid regurgitation. Reoccurrence was...
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...
This single institution retrospective study examined the utility of using nonpledgeted sutures for aortic valve replacement. In short-term follow-up, 3.6% of patients had insignificant perivalvular leak and 0.9% had significant...
Patient Care and General Interest An accident during a sword swallowing trick was bad news for the performer’s esophagus. An imaging case study from Medscape walks through the echocardiography of...
Why this study – the rationale/objective This study compared the volumes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) since the approval of TAVR in the...
The authors of this study analyzed neurological events and quality-of-life in the Surgical Replacement and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (SURTAVI) trial. A total of 1746 patients with aortic stenosis and...
Introduction Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors account for less than 0.5% of all carcinoid tumors [1]. Patients with primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may develop carcinoid heart disease by release of bioactive...
Surgical exposure and cannulation of the femoral artery and vein is the standard approach for connection to the extracorporeal circulation in minimally invasive valve surgery. There are, however, potential downsides,...
Despite the benefit for most patients, some patients have poor outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Currently it is hard to predict which patient is predisposed to poor outcome...






