Prevalence and etiology of type A acute aortic dissection (AADA) in patients less than thirty years of age was investigated through retrospective data collection at sixteen international institutions. 139 cases were identified, representing 1.8 percent of all AADA. Connective tissue disease (CTD) was evident in 36.7 percent of patients.
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Cardiac
July 6, 2023
Although septal myectomy and concomitant mitral valve surgery are typical in the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), the combination of these procedures through right anterior mini-thoracotomy has rarely been presented in the literature.
July 5, 2023
This video presents the author’s technique for harvesting the right gastroepiploic artery in coronary artery bypass grafting.
July 4, 2023
This video shows the authors’ technique for resection of a left atrial tumor combined with right middle lobectomy in a twenty-two-year-old man.
June 29, 2023
Recently, a minimal approach to transcatheter valve replacement using only local anesthesia has been used to promote a faster procedure and recovery time. With this lack of general anesthesia, however, comes more anxiety and the possibility of pain for patients.
June 29, 2023
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is now a standard procedure for the treatment of symptomatic aortic valve stenosis in many patients.
June 27, 2023
In this video, surgeons demonstrate a Vouhe procedure on a patient with anomalous left coronary artery origin from the right coronary sinus.
June 26, 2023
This video demonstrates transcatheter mitral valve replacement with the Tendyne transapical system.
June 23, 2023
This single-center study of 299 patients operated on for type-A aortic dissection between 1992 and 2020 reported lower ten-year mortality (32 percent) after prosthetic or valve-sparing root replacement compared with ascending aorta replacement (52 percent; hazard ratio, 1.38; 95 percent CI, 1.12-1.68) without resecting the coronary sinuses, and lower
June 23, 2023
The first three cardiac catheterization surgeries at University of Ghana Medical Center were performed recently by a Ghanaian pediatric cardiac specialist. The procedures were performed on three children with three different heart conditions.