The authors demonstrate a combined transaortic and transapical approach to septal myectomy for complex long-segment hypertrophy.
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Heart failure
September 24, 2018
September 19, 2018
A New York Times journalist travels with Team Heart, a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian heart surgery for rheumatic disease in Rwanda. In addition to highlighting the overwhelming need, her perspective illuminates some harsh realities of these efforts in resource-poor countries.
September 13, 2018
Exciting debate on the EOLIA trial!
https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/extracorporeal-membrane-oxygenation-severe-a...
August 17, 2018
A well-referenced, exhaustive review.
July 23, 2018
Ma and colleagues evaluated left ventricular diastolic function in 183 patients who had undergone isolated aortic valve replacement for severe aortic regurgitation. Echocardiographic data was used to evaluate the relationship between preoperative diastolic function and postoperative mortality and cardiac function.
July 6, 2018
A detailed and somewhat disheartening analysis of stem cell therapy for cardiac failure.
The Incidence and Consequence of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement
July 3, 2018
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 with worse outcomes compared to no PPM over the 10-year study period.
June 27, 2018
A brief, readable, sensibly balanced, and well-referenced editorial on the occasion of the retrospective Austrian paper on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
June 22, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
June 6, 2018
Dobrovie and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis of mitral regurgitation (MR) in 128 patients who had a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implanted. The authors found that even severe MR improved following LVAD implantation without intraoperative repair of the valve.