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Cardiac

April 10, 2018
This video demonstrates the radical resection of a right heart angiosarcoma, followed by composite reconstruction of the right atrium and the superior vena cava with bovine pericardial patches and a polytetrafluoroethylene vascular prosthesis.
April 10, 2018
This is a retrospective review of 143 patients requiring reoperation after an initial AVR with a Freestyle® stentless bioprosthesis. Valve survival was 10.4 years for those with structural valve deterioration, but it was much less (4.1 years) if the initial procedure was for infective endocarditis. Operative mortality was <2%.
April 4, 2018
The EJCTS and ICVTS are publishing a series of Statistical Primers to help clinicians perform and interpret research. In this article, Hickey and colleagues provide a practical introduction to repeated-measures analysis.
April 4, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Leanne Harling moderates a discussion with David Taggart and Phillippe Kolh on the future of coronary revascularization.
April 3, 2018
Gosev and colleagues evaluated the baseline characteristics and outcomes in 156 patients from 12 centers who survived at least four years on left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support. Among this group of patients, mean survival was 7.1 years (95% CI 6.7 to 7.5 years).
April 3, 2018
Dr Om Prakesh Yadava of the National Heart Institute in New Delhi, India, and Professor Vinayak Bapat of Columbia University in New York, USA, discuss transcatheter valve therapies and sutureless valves.
March 31, 2018
 70-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger has undergone successful redo heart surgery at Ceders-Sinai Hospital, after an initial attempt to replace his pulmonic valve percutaneously. He famously underwent an attempted Ross Procedure in 1997, and the pulmonic valve left from that operation now required repeat surgery.
March 29, 2018
This video shows a novel technique using a transcatheter valve deployed in the mitral position during open surgery.
March 28, 2018
Freemantle and colleagues discuss evidence evaluating myocardial revascularization strategies, focusing in particular on conclusions that can and cannot be drawn from subgroup analyses.
March 27, 2018
This video demonstrates the closure of a median sternotomy using stainless steel wires.

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