Real-time 3D ultrasound (US) has become a promising new tool for guiding surgical procedures [1]. In particular, minimally invasive applications within a beating heart are now possible because of US's high tissue/blood contrast and a temporal resolution capable of capturing fast-moving cardiac structures [2]. Intra-cardiac beating heart procedures present new challenges such as limited workspac...

Surgical procedures guided by non-optical imaging represent a growing proportion of medical interventions. The goal of this type of approach is to reduce the invasiveness of current procedures or to treat disease using new procedures which would not possible without the assistance of medical imaging. The field of cardiac surgery represents a medical subspecialty where image-guided interventions...

today, congenital heart diseases may be treated without surgery through advances in interventional cardiology. however, complications such as infection and thrombus formation may develop due to foreign materials used during these procedures. surgical intervention may be required for the removal of the device utilized for the procedure. in this case report, we present the surgical treatment of a...

OBJECTIVE A survey was undertaken to determine the factors that affect interest in cardiothoracic surgery (CTS) among junior surgical residents in Nigeria. METHODS A cross-sectional study was done using a pilottested, 56-item, semi-structured questionnaire, which was filled in by 238 junior surgical residents in accredited hospitals in Nigeria. RESULTS Few of the respondents (8.4%) were com...

This prospective, descriptive study was carried out to determine the pattern and the type of congenital heart disease seen in the Paediatric Departments in 4 government hospitals. The accessibility of surgical or transcatheter interventional treatment was also assessed. Consecutive new patients seen for suspected congenital heart disease from 1/1/95 till 31/12/95 (Group I) were registered. Reco...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be found in an increasing number of cardiac surgical patients due to a higher patient's age and comorbidities. Atrial fibrillation is known, however, to be a risk factor for a greater mortality, and one aim of intraoperative AF treatment is to approximate early and long-term survival of AF patients to survival of patients with preoperative sinus rhythm. Today, surge...

BACKGROUND Primary cardiac tumors are rare but have favorable surgical prognosis. Previous studies have been small series studies with limited surgical approaches. To date, few studies have examined the clinical features associated with different surgical procedures. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a search of the cardiovascular surgery database of our institution, we retrospectively identified 225 pat...

Extensive literature has been published evaluating the use of cell salvage in cardiac surgery. However, the most recently published blood management guidelines do not give unequivocal direction on the use of cell salvage in cardiac surgical procedures and neither do recent meta-analyses and randomized controlled trials. In part, this reflects variation in the details of how cell salvage is used...

BACKGROUND In patients undergoing cardiac surgery, a reduced preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is common and is associated with a worse outcome. Available outcome data for these patients address specific surgical procedures, mainly coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Aim of our study was to investigate perioperative outcome of surgery on patients with low pre-operative LVE...

Introduction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II in adult patients with acquired heart diseases. Material and Methods. research included a consecutive series 6,031 who underwent coronary, valvular combined cardiac surgical interventions period from January 15, 2015 December 31, 2020. Model calibration assessed by c...