Valve Disease

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Minimally Invasive Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Reoperative Settings

June 15, 2026 | Oleksandr BabliakBronze Contributor…

The authors present a case of reoperative settings using a minimally invasive approach in an 11-year-old girl with a complex congenital heart defect. The procedure consisted of pulmonary valve replacement via a left anterior minithoracotomy...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 174: Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

September 17, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...

JANS Article

The Ross Procedure: Determinants of Long-Term Durability

September 17, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

This propensity-matched study from the Montreal Heart Institute Ross Registry examined sex-based differences in outcomes following the Ross procedure. Among 816 adults undergoing full-root pulmonary autograft replacement (2011 to 2025),...

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Ross Procedure for Infective Endocarditis With Extensive Aortic Root Destruction in a Child With a Bicuspid Aortic Valve

September 16, 2026 | Zineb El Hasnaoui…

An 8-year-old male (24 kg) presented with intermittent fever for 45 days. Echocardiography demonstrated infective endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve with multiple vegetations (largest 8 × 6 mm), severe...

JANS Article

The STS Risk Model for SAVR After TAVR

September 10, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

This study developed and validated an updated Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) risk model for surgical aortic valve replacement after a failed transcatheter aortic valve replacement (SAVR-after-TAVR), including the emergent...

JANS Article

Predicting Quality of Life at 1 Year After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Real-World Population

October 14, 2018 | Ruben Osnabrugge

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...

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Aortic Valve Replacement With Right Anterior Thoracotomy, Sutureless Valves, and Ultrafast-Track Anesthesia: A Truly Minimally Invasive Approach in Ancona

September 25, 2018 | Marco Di EusanioBronze Contributor…

While anatomical and clinical indications to transcatheter aortic valve interventions are expanding, surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) continues to progress, as demonstrated by improving clinical outcomes in contemporary patients’ cohorts...

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Transcatheter Mitral-Valve Repair in Patients With Heart Failure

September 25, 2018 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This multicenter study evaluated the efficacy of medical therapy plus transcatheter valve repair (MitraClip) to medical therapy alone for heart failure accompanied by secondary moderate to severe mitral regurgitation. The...

JANS Article

When a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence

September 19, 2018 | Emily FarkasBronze Contributor

A New York Times journalist travels with Team Heart, a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian heart surgery for rheumatic disease in Rwanda. In addition to highlighting the overwhelming need, her perspective...

JANS Article

Meet William Novick, the Doctor Fixing Iraq’s Bleeding Heart

September 11, 2018 | Emily FarkasBronze Contributor

In this Men’s Journal feature, Dr. William Novick describes his beginnings in international congenital heart surgery and how the personal credo: “Screw politics, screw religion; I’m here to help” has...

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Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Mitral Valve Repair using PTFE-Chordae: A Simplified Technique

August 28, 2018 | Mohamed El Gabry…

The authors demonstrate a video-assisted minimally invasive mitral valve repair via an anterolateral right minithoracotomy. The patient was a 54-year-old man who was referred to the authors’ department with severe...

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Optimal Treatment for the Failing Prosthesis is Redo Aortic Valve Replacement

August 23, 2018 | Clifford Barlow…

Clifford W. Barlow of the Southampton General Hospital in the United Kingdom presents a discussion on the optimal treatment for failing surgical prosthetic valves within the context of aortic valve...

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Bicuspid Aortic Valve With Aortic Aneurysms

August 23, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A brief, useful editorial advancing the position of watchful waiting in selected aneurysmopathic patients, on the occasion of new AATS guideline on bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) aortopathy.

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