Valve Disease
The authors present a case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular pseudoaneurysm repair with mitral valve replacement and coronary revascularization performed through a minimally invasive left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal space. Patient Information This case...
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...
In this article, Kilcoyne et al discuss the current status of training cardiothoracic surgery trainees in structural heart disease and propose a new core curriculum for training surgeons in structural...
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) continues to be responsible for major cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the developing world. It constitutes a double tragedy because it disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged people...
An ad hoc interim analysis pursuant to previous publications raising concerns on Paclitaxel DCS in chronic critical and not-critical lower limb ischaemia. The short manuscript requires careful reading to form...
A brief and readable editorial on the United Kingdom prespective on the global impact of the pandemic to the delivery of cardiovascular care, attempting a semi-quantitative economic appraisal of the...
A large RCT with results somewhat supportive of considering a NOAC in the place of warfarin for post operative surgical patients. The study will be weighed against healthcare economical aspects....
Researchers from the UK reported a novel polymeric heart valve, PoliValve, which is made entirely from styrenic block copolymers. The unique feature of PoliValve is that it is made of...
Five year results of the PARTNER II trial demonstrated no difference in the risk of stroke or death comparing TAVR to surgical aortic valve replacement among intermediate surgical risk patients....
In 2014, Edwards Lifescience launched an ambitious philanthropic initiative called Every Heartbeat Matters (EHM) with the goal of impacting the global burden of heart valve disease through the education, screening...





