This video demonstrates a Mexican modification to the traditional Maze III procedure.
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Cardiac
November 22, 2016
The Johns Hopkins group reviewed their postoperative complications after heart surgery in 2,477 adult patients from 2011 and 2014 to determine the effect of the number of major complications on the primary outcome of death (as well as several secondary outcomes). The study found the following rates of mortality by the number of complications:
November 18, 2016
View an SCTS and Bupa patient resource explaining how to continue recovery at home after undergoing cardiothoracic surgery.
November 15, 2016
This editor hastes to submit to JANS this manuscript on the 5 year follow -up of the ART trial. It is guaranteed to be widely cited, probably hotly debated and certainly a disappointment to many of us!
November 15, 2016
The feasibility of synchrotron radiation-based phase-contrast computed tomography (PCCT) for visualization of the atrioventricular (AV) conduction axis in human whole heart specimens was tested using four post-mortem structurally normal newborn hearts obtained at autopsy.
November 14, 2016
This video demonstrates a post-MI VSD double patch repair on a patient who had been previously stable on medical management.
November 10, 2016
Mohamad Bashir of Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom, moderates a panel discussion on the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD).
November 9, 2016
Gianni Angelini of Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, discusses vein graft failure and surgical techniques to improve vein graft patency rates at all stages.
November 7, 2016
This is a prospective, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority trial comparing CABG versus PCI in patients with unprotected left main stenosis. The study was carried out at 36 hospitals in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the UK, and Denmark.
November 4, 2016
View an SCTS and Bupa patient resource explaining side-effects and complications that may arise after cardiac surgery.