Valve Disease

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 176: The ELANA System in CABG

October 1, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University Medical Center about the excimer...

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Fifth Sternotomy: Konno-Rastan Aortoventriculoplasty and CABG

November 2, 2026 | Kareem Bedeir

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...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 178: Managing the Left Subclavian Artery

October 29, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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...

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ECS Club | Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients

October 23, 2026 | Maurice Sarano

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:...

JANS Article

Risk Factors for Recurrent TR After Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for CTEPH

October 22, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

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...

JANS Article

Early Surgery or Conservative Care for Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis

January 8, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A medium size RCT with encouraging surgical outcomes in the era of TAVI expansion…..

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JANS Article

Reduced Leaflet Motion After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

November 22, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

Puzzling subgroup from the GALILEO trial, which appears in the same issue of the periodical as an article that discredits the use of rivaroxaban as thromboprevention strategy : https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1911425?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article, And...

JANS Article

Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis after TAVR and SAVR: Insights from the PARTNER Trials

November 7, 2019 | Mark FergusonGold Contributor

Data from the PARTNER trials were assessed regarding post-procedural prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement and surgical aortic valve replacement. The timing and rates of PVE were...

JANS Article

A Treatise on the Surgical Management and a Suggested Amendment of Surgical Classification of Left Ventricular Rupture Following Mitral Valve Replacement

November 6, 2019 | Wei-Guo MaGold Contributor

Gudala and associates performed a literature review of 108 patients who sustained left ventricular rupture following mitral valve replacement. The incidence in pooled data was 0.72%. The authors expounded on...

JANS Article

Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation With Decreased Hospitalization and Mortality Risk After Cardiac Valve Surgery

November 2, 2019 | Mark FergusonGold Contributor

Participation in a post-discharge rehabilitation program after valve surgery was associated with a 34% relative decrease in hospitalization during the first year and a 61% relative decrease in mortality at...

JANS Article

Characteristics of Surgical Prosthetic Heart Valves and Problems Around Labeling: A Document From the EACTS, STS, AATS Valve Labelling Task Force

October 12, 2019 | Tom C. NguyenSilver Contributor

Excellent document from the EACTS, STS, and AATS emphasizing the importance of standardization of prosthetic heart valve labeling.

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JANS Article

Miscategorization of Deaths in the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Events Database

October 10, 2019 | Mark FergusonGold Contributor

Reporting of postmarket outcomes for the Sapien 3 and Mitraclip devices frequently misclassified patient deaths as device malfunction or other outcomes. Misclassification for Sapien 3 involved 17.5% of patient deaths,...

JANS Article

Measuring Chordae Tension During Transapical Neochordae Implantation: Toward Understanding Objective Consequences of Mitral Valve Repair

October 8, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

An interesting pilot experiment on attempting to quantify the optimum disposition of neochordae in transapical intervention for severe mitral regurgitation.

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