The authors of this study conducted a systematic review of clinical outcomes after pediatric aortic valve repair (AVr) and examined life expectancy and risk of reintervention using microsimulation. The study included forty-one publications including 2,636 patients with 17,217 years of follow-up (median follow up was 7.3. years).
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Aortic valve disease
November 20, 2023
November 14, 2023
This surgical video demonstrates the technical details of robotic aortic valve replacement in a sixty-eight-year-old man with bicuspid aortic valve and severe aortic insufficiency.
November 9, 2023
In this meta‐analysis, the authors performed a pooled analysis of time‐to‐event data from Kaplan-Meier curves of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and propensity‐score matched (PSM) studies comparing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) versus surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in low-risk patients.
November 1, 2023
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) published a joint press release regarding aortic valve replacement in low-risk patients.
October 27, 2023
In this recording from the 2023 Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece conference, Dr. Theo Kofidis, the head of cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery at National University of Singapore, discusses the progress that aortic valve replacement techniques have made over the past twenty years.
October 26, 2023
The outcomes of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients at Five Years (5y PARTNER 3 trial) were presented during the late-breaking clinical trial session of TCT 2023 and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
October 24, 2023
This video demonstrates the use of a Konno aortic root enlargement to deal with a complex intra-ventricular aneurysm after healed endocarditis.
October 10, 2023
In the appropriate patient, the Ross procedure provides the best survival curves, hemodynamics, and a normal lifestyle in patients with aortic valve pathology.
October 6, 2023
As a part of the 2023 Australian Thoracic Aortic Symposium, Dr. Edward Chen presented on his methods for valve repair in patients with a bicuspid aortic valve.
October 4, 2023
A newly published review by Dr. David on aortic valve sparing operations