Mechanical Support & Transplant

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February 22, 2022 | Valerio Sanesi…

A sixty-six-year-old man underwent investigation for a recent onset of shortness of breath and was found to have a chronically occluded LAD, a severely dilated left ventricle, reduced ejection fraction,...

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February 15, 2022 | Michele D'Alonzo…

The patient featured in this video is a fifty-two-year-old woman with a previous history of liposarcoma of the thigh. She underwent surgery in 2003 and was on follow-up until 2013...

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December 7, 2021 | Cheng He…

Invasive infective endocarditis (IE) with abscess formation involving the intervalvular fibrous body (IFB) between the aortic and mitral valves or aorto-mitral curtain (AMC) can make surgical repair and reconstruction a...

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August 13, 2021 | HelenMari Merritt-Genore

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for cardiac failure is on the rise worldwide. Some challenges, such as limb ischemia and thrombotic or hemorrhagic events, are well-recognized. Newer data suggests that ventricle...

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August 11, 2021 | Hemant Gokhale…

The advent of normothermic ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) has allowed for significant increases in lung transplant volume, allowing for the recovery of lungs deemed unsuitable for transplantation. At our...

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August 3, 2021 | Juan-Miguel Gil-Jaurena…

Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) is gaining worldwide acceptance as an adjunct to brain death (BD) in transplant surgery. Initially performed for abdominal organs procurement, DCD was then carried out...

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July 13, 2021 | David Lehenbauer…

This is a report of a successful slide tracheobronchoplasty for right mainstem bronchial agenesis. Patient is a 2.4kg ex-36 week male (with a corrected gestational age of 39.6 weeks at...

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July 6, 2021 | Manuel Wilbring…

Ventricular assist device surgery using a lateral access has been shown to be a safe and a partially beneficial alternative to the standard approach by sternotomy (1). Hereby, left anterolateral...