This study compared outcomes of mechanical valves, bioprostheses, and homografts patients undergoing an operation for active complex aortic endocarditis.
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Endocarditis
March 15, 2021
November 12, 2020
This video demonstrates a 2-year-old patient with infective endocarditis and severely damaged mitral valve who underwent a complex mitral valve repair by resecting all the infected tissue and rebuilding the architecture of the valve by multiple Matrix patches and chordal transfer.
September 25, 2020
Chauvette et al. present a multicenter study on the outcome of Ross procedure in adults with infective endocarditis. In their cohort of patients at five centers within Canada and the US, the authors observed an excellent mid-term outcome.
CTSNet To Go Podcast Episode:Discussion: The "Hemi-Commando" Procedure for Double-Valve Endocarditis
August 18, 2020
Juan P. Umana interviews Jose Navia about the "hemi-commando" procedure for double-valve endocarditis.
August 14, 2020
This single-institution study of 83 patients investigated mitral valve repair for infective endocarditis based on the location of the lesion.
July 22, 2020
The authors discuss the operative steps for homograft aortic root replacement in complex aortic root abscess in a patient with prosthetic valve endocarditis.
May 11, 2020
Interesting hypothesis in a rodent model of myxomatous degeneration.
February 11, 2020
This video shows the minimally invasive repair of a complex set of lesions of the mitral valve from healed endocarditis with anterior and posterior flails with A2 perforation.
January 22, 2020
In this video, the authors describe mitral valve pathologies that are solved or repaired through a minimally invasive approach.
December 18, 2019
The authors present a framework of technical considerations that can help surgical teams achieve reproducible success with this technique of the reconstruction of the intervalvular fibrous body, decreasing the technical failures.