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Minimally-Invasive Valve Surgery

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010
Minimally-invasive approaches have become increasingly important in cardiac valve surgery. Smaller incisions have become commonplace in many major centers. We reviewed the existing literature and present the current state-of-the-art of minimally-invasive valve operations in this paper.
Schmitto, Jan D., Mokashi, Suyog A., Cohn, Lawrence H.   +2 more
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Generic, simple risk stratification model for heart valve surgery [PDF]

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Heart valve surgery has an associated in-hospital mortality rate of 4% to 8%. This study aims to develop a simple risk model to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for patients undergoing heart valve surgery to provide information to ...
Ambler, G, Keogh, BE, Kinsman, R, Omar, RZ, Royston, P, Taylor, KM   +5 more
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Factors associated with prolonged length of stay following cardiac surgery in a major referral hospital in Oman: a retrospective observational study [PDF]

, 2016
Two objectives were set for this study. The first was to identify factors influencing prolonged postoperative length of stay (LOS) following cardiac surgery. The second was to devise a predictive model for prolonged LOS in the cardiac intensive care unit
Almashrafi, A, Alsabti, H, Aylin, P, Baskaran, B, Mukaddirov, M   +4 more
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Multicenter study for CH-VAD as a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device

iScience
Summary: The CH-VAD is a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device (LVAD) designed for optimized hemocompatibility. This study evaluates the clinical outcomes of 77 patients implanted with the CH-VAD across seven centers in China from ...
Yifan Lu, Shuanglei Zhao, Jie Han, Qiang Lv, Xin Du, Zhengdong Hua, Keli Huang, Zhenwei Ge, Xiaoning Sun, Dan Zhu, Yongfeng Shao, Hongjia Zhang, Ming Gong   +12 more
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Clinical Implications of Physical Function and Resilience in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background Gait speed is a reliable measure of physical function and frailty in patients with aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Slow gait speed pre‐TAVR predicts worse clinical outcomes post‐TAVR.
Kashish Goel, Jared M. O’Leary, Colin M. Barker, Melissa Levack, Vivek Rajagopal, Raj R. Makkar, Tanvir Bajwa, Neal Kleiman, Axel Linke, Dean J. Kereiakes, Ron Waksman, Dominic J. Allocco, David G. Rizik, Michael J. Reardon, Brian R. Lindman   +14 more
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Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) alone in moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation: is CABG really enough? [PDF]

, 2016
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Nappi, Francesco, Spadaccio, Cristiano
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MORTALITAS OPERASI JANTUNG GANTI KATUP DI RSUP DR. KARIADI SEMARANG PERIODE JANUARI 2014 – DESEMBER 2014 [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Increasingly high numbers of the heart valve surgery is now because of people's lifestyles that cause degenerative risks. One of its management is changing heart valve through surgery.
Essianda, Vania, Ismail, Akhmad, Istanto N, Widya   +2 more
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Triple valve infective endocarditis - a late diagnosis [PDF]

, 2018
Behcet\u27s disease is a systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology with cardiac involvement as well as damage to other organs. Whether the sterile valvular inflammation which occurs in this autoimmune disease predisposes to bacterial adhesion and ...
Barbulescu, Andreea L., Chisalau, Beatrice A., Ciurea, Paulina L., Dinescu, Stefan C., Efrem, Ion C., Firulescu, Sineta C., Mustafa, Edme R., Parvanescu, Cristina D., Radu, Lucretiu, Tartea, Georgica C., Vreju, Ananu F.   +10 more
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Long-term outcome after tricuspid valvectomy in a neonate with Candida endocarditis : a case report [PDF]

, 2019
Tricuspid valvectomy is a rare surgical intervention, and knowledge regarding long-term outcome in children is lacking. We report a favourable outcome 11 years after tricuspid valvectomy in early infancy without subsequent surgery or other cardiac ...
Bogers, Ad JJC, Helbing, Willem A, Vanhie, Ellen   +2 more
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Surgical treatment of patients with infective endocarditis: changes in temporal use, patient characteristics, and mortality—a nationwide study

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2022
Background Valve surgery guidelines for infective endocarditis (IE) are unchanged over decades and nationwide data about the use of valve surgery do not exist. Methods We included patients with first-time IE (1999–2018) using Danish nationwide registries.
Andreas Dalsgaard Jensen, Lauge Østergaard, Jeppe K. Petersen, Peter Graversen, Jawad H. Butt, Henning Bundgaard, Claus Moser, Morten H. Smerup, Ivy S. Modrau, Kasper Iversen, Niels E. Bruun, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Gunnar Gislason, Andrew Wang, Sigurdur Ragnarsson, Jonas A. Povlsen, Lars Køber, Emil L. Fosbøl   +17 more
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