Valve Disease

Article

Rheumatic Heart Disease: Important Steps to Tackle a Misunderstood Disease

February 22, 2023 | Dominique Vervoort

Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a leading and growing form of cardiovascular disease worldwide. VHD presents in many forms, but its epidemiology is predominantly driven by chronic noncommunicable disease origins—calcific aortic stenosis and degenerative mitral...

Podcast

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),...

Video

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

Heart valve upside down

March 9, 2017 | CTSNet Staff

According to BBC Tyne & Wear, a patient died after surgeons inserted a heart valve upside down causing irreversible damage to her heart. The procedure was performed at the Freeman...

Video

Aortic and Mitral Valve Replacements Through J-Type Partial Sternotomy

February 27, 2017 | Konstadinos Plestis…

This video demonstrates a technique for performing aortic and mitral valve replacements simultaneously through a partial sternotomy with an excellent exposure of the corresponding anatomical structures. The patient was an...

JANS Article

Outcomes of Warfarin Therapy for Bioprosthetic Valve Thrombosis of Surgically Implanted Valves

February 26, 2017 | J. Rafael Sadaba

In this manuscript, the authors describe their findings in an observational prospective study of 52 patients who had tentative diagnoses of bioprosthetic valve thrombosis (BPVT) of surgically implanted valves over...

JANS Article

Diagnosis of perioperative myocardial infarction after heart valve surgery with new cut-off point of high-sensitivity troponin T and new ECG or echocardiogram changes

February 17, 2017 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

These authors from Spain retrospectively analyzed a group of 805 patients undergoing isolated heart valve surgery in order to correlate levels of high-sensitivity troponin T (hs-cTnT) and CK-MB with whether...

JANS Article

Differences in left ventricular remodelling in patients with aortic stenosis treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement with corevalve prostheses compared to surgery with porcine or bovine biological prostheses.

February 13, 2017 | J. Rafael Sadaba

The authors report on an echocardiographic sub-study of the NOTION trial, a prospective randomized study which compared outcomes between 120 patients undergoing TAVI and 112 patients undergoing aortic valve replacement...

Video

Concomitant AF Ablation During Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

February 1, 2017 | Joseph Zacharias

Joseph Zacharias of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool, UK, gives an overview of the use of ablation for atrial fibrillation in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Dr. Zacharias demonstrates his...

Video

Ultra Fast Track Mini AVR With Edwards Intuity Elite

January 31, 2017 | Marco Di EusanioBronze Contributor…

The authors present a multidisciplinary minimally invasive approach to aortic valve replacement involving reduced chest incision, a rapid deployment aortic valve prosthesis, a minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation system, and ultra...

JANS Article

Long-Term Outcomes of External Repair as a Rescue Operation for Atrioventricular Groove Disruption

January 28, 2017 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Mitral valve surgery complicated by atrioventricular groove disruption has a high mortality rate. The authors describe results of an external repair for this injury, directly suturing the atrioventricular groove. In...

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