Surgical interventions for ischemic or non-ischemic heart failure refractory to medical treatment include the implantation of an artificial heart, tissue engineering medicine, and myocardial substitute, in addition to conventional coronary revascularization for ischemic heart disease (IHD) and undersized mitral annuloplasty (UMAP) for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) causing myocardial dam...

BACKGROUND Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) is a percutaneous treatment option for severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis. Due to early restenosis and failure to improve long term survival, BAV is considered a palliative measure in patients who are not suitable for open heart surgery due to increased perioperative risk. BAV can be used also as a bridge to surgical or transcatheter aortic valve i...

1. If the surgery is elective or less urgent and the cardiac disease is of such a magnitude that surgical correction is indicated, then it is preferable to perform the cardiac surgery [or some relevant interventional procedure such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for coronary artery disease (CAD) or balloon mitral vlvotomy (BMV) for mitral stenosis (MS)] before noncardi...

Multivesicular, pulmonary and cardiac hydatidosis are rarely observed and can give rise to serious complications. Cysts can remain asymptomatic for a long time, until they reveal themselves perforating into cardiac chambers and/or pulmonary arteries or the systemic circulation. A rare case of multivesicular interatrial septum hydatid cyst with multiple pulmonary involvement in a native Italian ...

BACKGROUND Pectus excavatum (PE) can be associated with congenital and acquired cardiac disorders that also require surgical repair. The timing and specific surgical technique for repair of PE remains controversial. The present study reports the experience of combined repair of PE and open heart surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. METHODS A retrospective case review was conducted of all patien...

BACKGROUND In elderly patients who have atrial fibrillation (AF), surgical ablation of the arrhythmia during cardiac surgery may be challenging. Despite the reported advantages of ablating AF with the Cox maze procedure (CMP), the addition of the CMP may complicate other cardiac operations. We evaluated the effect of the CMP in elderly patients concurrent with other cardiac operations. METHOD...

from march 1990 to may 1993,309 patients underwent redo cardiac surgery operation at the shahid rajai heart hospital in tehran. early mortality rates in these patients showed a significant increase in comparison to patients undergoing open heart surgery for the first time. late mortality (at least one month after surgery) in the patients was slightly increased also but less than early mortality...

The carbon dioxide surgical field flooding technique has long been tried with varying degrees of success. A recent revival of the technique that began over 40 years ago in cardiac surgery, has brought promise as well as improved results attributable to improved technology. Studies at JFK Medical Center have been very successful using the carbon dioxide surgical field-flooding technique. Establi...