This special issue of the ACS is focused on Tricuspid Valve Surgery. With Guest Editors Dr Bettina Pfannmuller and the late Dr Lawrence Cohn, topics of interest include non-functional tricuspid valve disease, innovative solutions for tricuspid leaflet repair, management of Ebstein’s Anomaly, minimal access surgery and much more.
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Cardiac
June 5, 2017
In this video, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of performing a complex aortic valve repair for aortic valve endocarditis via an upper partial sternotomy.
June 1, 2017
Niv Ad of West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, West Virginia, discusses the benefits of using a fibrillating-heart technique in minimally invasive mitral surgery.
May 31, 2017
Song Wan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Rüdiger Lange of the German Heart Center share their opinions on current and future trends in mitral valve repair. Tom Nguyen of the University of Texas Health Science Center moderates this discussion, which focuses on the evolution of patient profiles and surgical techniques.
May 30, 2017
In this video, the final in a seven-part series, Tristan Yan demonstrates how to anastomose the Ante-Flo graft to the Valsalva graft, wean the patient off bypass, and close the mini-sternotomy incision.
May 30, 2017
Tristan Yan, Martin Misfeld, and Joel Dunning present a seven-part step-by-step video series on the mini-Bentall procedure and hemiarch replacement.
May 27, 2017
A statewide quality initiative database that included over 11,500 pts undergoing surgical AVR (SAVR) who were assessed for outcomes based on pre-TAVR and post-TAVR time periods (divided into early TAVR and commercial TAVR). SAVR rates increased with each time period, wheres predicted mortality rates decreased, observed mortality was lowest during th
May 27, 2017
Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services related to patients aged 65 and older who underwent TAVR during a 2 year period were evaluated, stratified into older (age 90 or greater; 19.3%) and younger cohorts. Nonagenarians had fewer comorbidities. Mortality was higher in nonagenarians (8.4% vs 5.9%) as was morbidity (25.4% vs 21.5%).
May 25, 2017
This video shows the treatment of a 5-year-old patient with a rapidly enlarging aneurysm and left ventricular outflow tract to pulmonary artery shunt.
May 24, 2017
Manuel Castella of Cirugia Cardiovascular Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Spain, discusses different strategies to achieve a satisfactory outcome in atrial fibrillation surgery.