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Long term outcome and EuroSCORE II validation in native valve surgery for active infective endocarditis in a South African cohort

SA Heart Journal, 2018
Objectives: To evaluate the major risk factors for adverse short and long term outcomes in patients with active native valve infective endocarditis needing cardiac surgery and to validate the EuroSCORE II in our cohort of patients.
Koshy, J. J. , Engel, M. , Human, P. , Carrara, H. , Brink, J. , Zilla, P.   +5 more
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Incidence and pathophysiology of atrioventricular block following mitral valve replacement and ring annuloplasty [PDF]

, 2017
Background: In this retrospective study we evaluate the causative mechanisms underlying postoperative atrioventricular block (AVB) following mitral valve replacement and mitral valve annuloplasty.
Berdajs, Denis, Genoni, Michele, Schurr, Ulrich P., Seifert, Burkhardt, Turina, Marko I., Wagner, Antonia   +5 more
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Fatal case of streptococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Streptococcus mitis in patient with tetralogy fallot disorder: a case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Prosthetic valve Endocarditis (PVE) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening infection involves a valve prosthesis or annuloplasty ring.
Zahra Jahani, Mina Latifian, Pooria Ahmadi, Saber Esmaeili   +3 more
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APPLICATION OF HIGH FIDELITY SIMULATION IN TEACHING MITRAL VALVE ANNULOPLASTY TO CARDIAC SURGERY RESIDENTS [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2015
V. Chan, T. Malas, M. Ruel, F. Rubens
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Improving Surgical Training Phantoms by Hyperrealism: Deep Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation from Real Surgeries

, 2018
Current `dry lab' surgical phantom simulators are a valuable tool for surgeons which allows them to improve their dexterity and skill with surgical instruments.
De Simone, Raffaele, Engelhardt, Sandy, Full, Peter M., Karck, Matthias, Wolf, Ivo   +4 more
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Surgical outcome of mitral valve repair in Iceland 2001-2012. [PDF]

, 2014
Efst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinnVægur míturlokuleki er meðhöndlaður með lyfjum en við alvarlegan leka þarf að beita skurðaðgerð, en viðgerðir með hjartaþræðingartækni eru í örri þróun ...
Arnar Geirsson, Jóhanna Fríða Guðmundsdóttir, Ragnar Danielsen, Sigurður Ragnarsson, Tómas Guðbjartsson   +4 more
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Harnessing piezoelectric poly L lactic acid for enhanced sensing in aortic annuloplasty

npj Flexible Electronics
Advancements in biomedical technologies increasingly demand biocompatible and biodegradable materials capable of integrating with the body for real-time monitoring of physiological processes.
Youssif Merhi, Karem Lozano Montero, Peter Johansen, Matti Mäntysalo, Shweta Agarwala   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

In vivo mitral valve repair for the transplanted donor heart in orthotopic heart transplantation

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
A 53-year-old woman with the dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy underwent orthotopic heart transplantation. The donor heart was evaluated as normal preoperatively without mitral regurgitation or the left atrium dilation, transplanted using the ...
Kazuma Handa, Yusuke Misumi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Shunsuke Saito, Masashi Kawamura, Takuji Kawamura, Ai Kawamura, Takashi Yamauchi, Shigeru Miyagawa   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mitral valve repair for infective endocarditis after esophageal reconstruction: a case report

Surgical Case Reports
Background In patients with retrosternal neo-esophageal conduit after right thoracotomy, the approach to cardiac surgery could be challenging. Particularly, in patients with infective endocarditis, there is a risk of injury to the conduit through ...
Shingo Tsushima, Yutaka Iba, Tomohiro Nakajima, Junji Nakazawa, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Akihito Ohkawa, Itaru Hosaka, Ayaka Arihara, Nobuyoshi Kawaharada   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transapical implantation of a transcatheter aortic valve prosthesis into a mitral annuloplasty ring guided by real-time three-dimensional cardiac computed tomography–fluoroscopy fusion imaging [PDF]

European Heart Journal, 2017
Eberhard, Schulz, Alexander, Tamm, Walter, Kasper-König, Andres, Beiras-Fernandez, Christian Friedrich, Vahl, Thomas, Münzel, Ralph Stephan, von Bardeleben   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources