Valve Disease

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Valve-Sparing Root Replacement in GUCH Patients With Neoaortic Root Aneurysms

June 10, 2026 | Serhii Varbanets…

Valve-sparing aortic root replacement (VSRR) in grown-up congenital heart (GUCH) patients is a complex but feasible approach. The authors present their experience performing the David procedure in two adult patients with challenging congenital histories and...

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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

Functional Mitral Stenosis After Mitral Valve Repair for Type II Dysfunction: Determinants and Impacts on Long-Term Outcome

August 15, 2018 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors reviewed their experience with 602 patients who underwent mitral repair for type II mitral regurgitation. Mitral stenosis was defined as a mean transmitral pressure gradient (MTPG) of >...

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The Konno Procedure for a Redo Aortic Root Abscess

August 15, 2018 | John Jacob…

This video highlights the use of the Konno procedure to safely expose the root of the aorta in a patient with an aortic root abscess and a history of multiple...

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Root Replacement With “French Cuff” Technique: A Challenging Redo Case

July 30, 2018 | Marco Di EusanioBronze Contributor…

Aortic root reoperation represents a great challenge for the cardiovascular surgeon, with a hospital mortality that ranges between 8% and 15% in the literature [1-4]. Arch repair interventions with zone...

JANS Article

CMS Meeting: TAVR Requirements for New and Existing Programs

July 28, 2018 | Tom C. NguyenSilver Contributor

The US Centers for Medicare and medicaid Services (CMS) convened a panel on 07/25/2018 to discuss recommendations for hospitals to maintain and begin TAVR programs. The focus of the discussion...

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Robotic Mitral Valve Repair Using the LEAR Technique, Filmed by the BBC

July 25, 2018 | Paul Modi…

This video shows one of the first totally endoscopic mitral valve repairs using the lateral endoscopic approach with robotics (LEAR) technique performed in the UK, and it follows a patient’s...

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Mitral Repair by Minimally Invasive Approach

July 16, 2018 | Daniel Navia…

Mitral valve repair is shown to have better survival, better preservation of ventricular function, and decreased thromboembolic complications compared to mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation (1-2). The Cardiovascular Institute...

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Transcatheter Versus Conventional Mitral Valve Surgery: Which Questions Should Future Clinical Trials Seek to Answer?

July 12, 2018 | Francis Wells

Francis Charles Wells of the Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK, compares transcatheter and conventional surgical mitral valve interventions. He focuses on the questions that need to be answered regarding surgical...

JANS Article

The Incidence and Consequence of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement

July 3, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Fallon and colleagues evaluated patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) following isolated aortic valve replacement reported in the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. They found that both moderate and severe PPM were associated...

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