Is open repair or TEVAR the best approach for a patient with chronic type B dissection? An expert panel of cardiothoracic surgeons and an interventional cardiologist met at the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to discuss this complex issue.
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April 3, 2016
Neil Moat, one of the busiest British surgeons involved directly and consistently in TAVR, discusses PARTNER 2 and SURTAVI, paying particular attention to the health economics of low-risk TAVR and the implication of reduced profile devices.
March 27, 2016
Therapy with b-blockers has shown a beneficial effect in reducing aortic dilation progression and has been proposed as the standard treatment for Marfan´s syndrome (MFS). However, angiotensin II-receptor blockers are emerging as potential alternatives to b-blockers.
March 16, 2016
In a discussion filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, an international panel of experts considers the management of porcelain aorta.
February 25, 2016
At the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Mohamad Bashir and Duke Cameron sat down for an in-depth discussion of valve-sparing aortic root replacement.
February 18, 2016
The authors studied outcomes after endovascular AAA aneurysm repair (EVAR) to assess whether ongoing aortic remodeling related to systemic inflammatory disease (SID) contributes to an increased incidence of endoleak. 65% of 79 treated patients had systemic inflammatory disease. Major complication rates were increased 7-fold in the group with SID.
February 3, 2016
Filmed at the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Mohamad Bashir interviews John Elefteriades, Director of the Aortic Institute at Yale University and Yale New-Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.
January 14, 2016
Filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting, an international panel of experts discuss the use of the frozen elephant trunk procedure in the treatment of aneurysm and dissection.
December 3, 2015
Patients with bicuspid aortic valves have a significantly increased incidence of aortic complications including type A aortic dissection. The authors studied 1181 patients with bicuspid aortic valves and sinus of valsalva or ascending aortic aneurysms with diameter greater than or equal to 4.7 cm on CT scan or MRI.
November 12, 2015
In a roundtable filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, Marjan Jahangiri and Mattia Glauber share perspectives on the evolution and current state of aortic valve replacement surgery.