“Robotically assisted mitral valve surgery allows us to make even smaller incisions with greater precision,” saidTom C. Nguyen, M.D., robotic heart surgeon and chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF. “By using the robotic arms, we have more degrees of articulation than with our natural wr...
National outcomes in acute aortic dissection: Influence of surgeon and institutional volume on operative mortality Ann Thorac Surg., 95 (2013), pp. 1563-1569 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 89 A. Vázquez Surgical techniques in type A aortic dissection surgery Cir Cardiovasc., 23...
Firstenberg Content Reviewer—Surgeons’ Council Northeast Ohio Medical Universities—Director, Adult ECMO Program; Director, Surgical Research; Associate Professor of Surgery and Integrative Medicine; Summa Akron City Hospital—Cardiothoracic Surgeon Linda D. Gillam Content Reviewer—Health Affairs Committee ...
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Put into perspective, the surgeon who replaces the aortic valve now has a number of explanations to account for the lack of adequate LVH regression following AVR. Even in those admirable cases in which the post-AVR gradient is reduced to < 15-20 mmHg, substantial mechanisms are operative serv...
The heart team consists of an interventional cardiologist, an imaging cardiologist and a cardiothoracic surgeon. In the period after implementation of the ET, all hospitalized IE patients at the Radboudumc and referred IE patients were discussed once a week in the ET. Our ET consists of ...
However, technical errors in bypass graft construction by the operating surgeon are primarily responsible for the majority of these early failures (Puskas et al. JAMA 291:1841–1849, 2004; Khan et al. N Engl J Med 350:21–28, 2004). With the exception of coronary artery bypass surgery, ...
The routine use of EAU imaging and TEE to identify and manage aortic atheromatous disease may allow the surgeon to individualize the surgical technique and potentially reduce the incidence of embolic stroke. Although some physicians still rely on direct surgical palpation to evaluate the ascending aorta...
Post-operative complications, either as a newly developed or an exacerbated comorbidity disease, until the completion of independent walking for up to one month, were diagnosed by the cardiovascular surgeon or intensivist. These were defined as follows: cardiovascular complications (ischemic heart disease...
Luciano Bulgarelli Maqueda & Diego Gonzalez-Rivas Thoracic Surgery Department, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain Alejandro García-Pérez, Anna Minasyan & Diego Gonzalez-Rivas Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hospital Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina ...