A large retrospective review of almost three decades of extensive thoracoabdominal aortic surgery, with considerable educational value especially on the anatomicoclinical correlations of the spinal vasculature.
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Vascular
June 19, 2020
June 12, 2020
The authors analyzed the volumes of thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) for the treatment of descending thoracic aneurysms for Medicare patients over five years, comparing the proportion of cases to 30-day mortality.
June 11, 2020
As TAVR is used in progressively lower-risk cohorts, management of device failure will become increasingly important. This study reports the largest series of patients receiving a surgical reoperation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) using the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database.
May 30, 2020
Autopsy examination of lungs from patients who died from SARS-CoV-2 infection, with comparison to the morphologic & molecular features of lungs from patients who died from ARDS secondary to influenza A (H1N1) infection and from uninfected controls.
May 29, 2020
An international, multicenter, cohort study at 235 hospitals in 24 countries including all patients undergoing surgery who had SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed. Mortality in patients with SARS-CoV-2 was mainly in those who had postoperative pulmonary complications, which was about 50% and at a rate far higher than the pre-pandemic baseline.
May 23, 2020
a readable review that advances the position that
Adolphe Quetelet's formula is now clinically obsolete
May 19, 2020
Using wearable technology, Meltzer et al. demonstrated that surgeon-reported risk factors for pain included longer case length, increased years in pratice, use of loupes, and use of headlights.
Arch Replacement Without Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest for Type Ia Endoleak: How We Do It In Ancona
May 18, 2020
In this video, the authors demonstrate their approach for type Ia endoleak in a step-by-step fashion.
May 15, 2020
Bavaria et al reported the five-year outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) of complicated acute type B aortic dissection (TBAD) in the DISSECTION trial. In this prospective, nonrandomized study, 50 patients were treated with the Valiant Captivia thoracic stent graft for acute complicated TBAD.
May 15, 2020
A medium-sized RCT from the Imperial College. The research question are of interest for all cardiovascular, thoracic, and general surgeons as well as all healthcare professionals.