A brief note on the feasibility (or not) of RCT on surgery for mitral fibroelastic prolapse.
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Transcatheter
February 2, 2018
January 26, 2018
Patient Care
A CABG operation performed at the Uganda Heart Institute at Mulago National Referral Hospital was done by an all-Ugandan surgical team for the first time.
January 17, 2018
This video demonstrates the technical aspects of transfemoral TAVR as done by the Houston Methodist TAVR team for two commercially available valve systems.
January 17, 2018
Dr T. Sloane Guy discusses the motivation behind CTSNet's first Guest Editor Series topic and describes the important cardiac surgery techniques that it covers.
January 16, 2018
In this study with 663 TAVI patients, the authors investigated the predictors for next day discharge (NDD). After excluding cases that did not have a minimalist transfemoral approach, 150 patients had NDD and 210 patients had non-NDD.
January 10, 2018
Folliguet and colleagues report on 145 patients from three French centers who underwent transcarotid aortic valve implantation. The procedures were successful in all. Eight patients suffered a stroke, and one patient had a localized carotid dissection.
January 8, 2018
A very brief editorial on frailty as a risk factor. In the time of weighing transcatheter interventions versus variable access surgical options, quantifying this physiological concept is of major importance for the cardiac teams and, importantly, the autonomy of the patient.
January 5, 2018
A handy free, short, good quality video on an open valve-in valve procedure.
January 5, 2018
A large cadaveric study of the scalloping of normal mitral valve leaflets. As the accompanying editorial points out, it would be useful to correlate the cadaveric observations to imaging and surgical anatomy.
January 3, 2018
Video and a readable digest of a talk in a Harvard meeting, especially interesting in its scepticism on prevention.