This is the clinical case of a totally endoscopic beating-heart second redo tricuspid valve replacement with a mechanical valve in a sixteen-year-old male patient.
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Cardiac
September 1, 2023
In this presentation from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Duke Cameron discussed various aortopathies and their surgical solutions.
August 31, 2023
In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world.
August 30, 2023
The authors reported the prognostic impact of donor transmitted coronary artery disease in heart transplantation in their retrospective multicenter cohort study. They found that TCAD was not associated with reduced survival.
August 30, 2023
Survival of diabetics after single or multiple coronary artery bypass grafting was compared in a national database over twenty years with 69,224 patients. End points were long-term all-cause mortality and thirty-day clinical outcomes. 17,474 nondiabetic and 10,989 diabetic matched pairs were generated.
August 30, 2023
While much research is ongoing regarding the safety of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) after prior coronary artery bypass (CABG), there is limited data on morbidity outcomes and discharge locations among these two procedures.
August 30, 2023
This video provides a scenario for the use of the Cabrol patch with Cooley fistula, as well as tricks, tips, and pitfalls of its usage.
August 24, 2023
During some transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) procedures, complications require conversion to emergency open heart surgery (E-OHS). This study evaluated early and midterm outcomes in a large center over fifteen years. Patients were grouped by surgical risk and the study time was divided into three five-year periods.
August 24, 2023
The risk of dissection associated with fluoroquinolone use has gained wide acceptance, but recent data indicate there’s more to the story. Pasternak and colleagues report a Swedish, multicenter, propensity-matched study of one million treatment episodes examining the relationship between fluoroquinolone use and aneurysm or dissection.