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Cardiac

May 21, 2020
Filmed at the 2020 STS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tsuyoshi Kaneko of Brigham And Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, moderates a discussion on surgical and transcatheter management of mitral regurgitation.
May 20, 2020
On May 19, CTSNet hosted a live event on surviving COVID and resilience beyond. Mara Antonoff and Brian Mitzman discussed these issues with Sasha Shillcutt, Reza Mehran, and Michael Maddaus.
May 19, 2020
This is a case of direct repair of recurrent mitral valve regurgitation with a NeoChord DS1000 device (Neochord Inc., St. Louis Park, MN) on a beating heart.
May 19, 2020
Using wearable technology, Meltzer et al. demonstrated that surgeon-reported risk factors for pain included longer case length, increased years in pratice, use of loupes, and use of headlights.
May 15, 2020
This article by Zhao et al. analyzes the risk of stroke in patients suffering from type A dissection depending on preoperative CT findings. They identified aortic regurgitation, dissection of the common carotid artery, and the ratio of the true lumen to the diameter of the involved ascending aorta as independent risk factors.
May 13, 2020
This original article using very carefully the propensity match analysis tried to answer the question regarding long-term outcomes of patients with severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) who undergo revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).  
May 13, 2020
Surgeon ergonomics is an underappreciated occupational hazard.  This study uses inertial measurement units to monitor ergonomics of surgeons, including a small handful of cardiac surgeons.  More research and discussion is needed in the this space.
May 12, 2020
The authors describe their experience of a novel totally 3D endoscopic aortic valve replacement (AVR) avoiding rib spreading and minimizing skin incision to one inch.
May 11, 2020
On May 8, CTSNet hosted a live event to find out what our colleagues across sub-Saharan Africa are seeing and doing as they brace for the impact of COVID-19. The recording is now available.
May 11, 2020
Interesting hypothesis in a rodent model of myxomatous degeneration.

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