Transplantations of hearts from donors >50 years (n=26) were compared to 136 transplantations of hearts from younger donors. Hearts from older donors were preferably transplanted to older recipients, who had also longer waiting times.
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Cardiac
April 9, 2015
This concensus statement reviews the unique physiology, insertion techniques, and clinical indications for use of percutaneous mechanical circulatory support devices. As the options for management of different etiologies of heart failure in adult and pediatric populations expand, understanding the advantages of specific devices is vital.
April 8, 2015
This video shows a rare case of a female patient with a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following a recent myocardial infarction.
April 8, 2015
The authors describe a simplified method of providing regional citrate anticoagulation for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) to patients.
April 7, 2015
The authors prospectively performed coronary angiograms in their patients undergoing isolated CABG who demonstrated a rising cardiac troponin I profile in the first 12 hours following heart surgery - despite being asymptomatic. Among a total of 1693 patients from 2005-2011, 29 (1.7%) of patients had a rising CTnI.
April 4, 2015
This multicenter randomized trial examined restrictive versus liberal threshold in red-cell transfusion in patients after cardiac surgery. The results were provocative, with more deaths in the restrictiv group compared to the liberal transfusion group. Posoperative complications were also slightly higher in the restrictive group.
April 2, 2015
Outcomes of stented bovine pericardial aortic valvular prostheses were evaluated over a 30 year experience. 48% had concomitant CABG and 26% had additional valve procedures at the time of implant. Explants were required in 1.9% at 10 years and in 15% by 20 years. Explant rates were 3-fold higher in patients younger than 60 years. Patient-prosthes
April 2, 2015
This video demonstrates aortic valve bypass surgery on an 83-year-old male patient. This surgery was offered to the patient as an alternative to conventional aortic valve replacement.
April 1, 2015
Tal Golesworthy and Tom Treasure discuss the development of the ExoVasc and its future as an alternative to aortic root replacement.
March 29, 2015
The authors of this article compared CABG and PCI with second generation drug eluting stents (DES-PCI) in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. They used data from a large observational registry and applied propensity score matching to create groups with similar baseline characteristics.