Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of an interprofessional enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program in patients undergoing minimally invasive heart valve procedures comparison to standard treatment a bicentric randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To determine the doppler derived mean gradients of St Jude mechanical prosthesis in early postoperative period in patients undergoing valve replacement at a tertiary care cardiac centre. METHODS Medical records of 190 consecutive patients who underwent 233 mitral, aortic or dual (mitral and aortic) valve replacement by St Jude bileaflet mechanical prosthesis at Tabba Heart Institute...

PURPOSE We evaluated medium-term results of the left-sided maze procedure using cryoablation in patients with valvular heart disease. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 111 patients with valvular heart disease who underwent the cryosurgical left-sided maze procedure. The mean follow-up period was 36.8 ± 24.9 months, and the mean duration of atrial fibrillation was 5.6 ± 6.0 years. The prima...

AIMS Because the elderly are increasingly referred for operation, we reviewed the results of cardiac surgery in patients of 80 years or older. METHODS AND RESULTS Records of 182 consecutive octogenarians who had had cardiac operations between 1992 and 1998 were reviewed. Follow-up was 100% complete. Seventy patients had coronary grafting (CABG), 70 aortic valve replacement, 30 aortic valve re...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although cerebral microemboli are often detected by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in mechanical heart valve patients, the clinical significance of such microemboli is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and composition of cerebral microemboli in a prosthetic heart valve population and to correlate these findings to cerebrovascular symptoms...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the success rates and prognosis of heart valvuloplasty and valve replacement for elderly patients, and to provide clinical evidence. METHODS A total of 1240 patients who received heart valve surgeries in our hospital from June 2004 to October 2014 were selected and retrospectively analyzed. They were divided into two groups based on age (60), and those older than 60 (Grou...

OBJECTIVES Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged rapidly. Despite unanimous recommendations and potentially fatal intraoperative complications, the heart-team approach is not comprehensively adopted by all centres. We sought to characterize severe intraprocedural complications during TAVI requiring immediate surgical or interventional bailout manoeuvres and evaluate outcome...

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Calcific aortic stenosis is the number 1 cause for surgical valve replacement in the United States and Europe. In 2006, surgical valve replacement still remains the number 1 indication for the treatment of this disease process, as defined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for valvular heart disease by Bonow et al.1 This standard of care for patients wit...

BACKGROUND Although adenosine (ADO) has been shown to have beneficial effects against tissue injury after myocardial ischaemia, the controversy still remains regarding the optimal timing, dose, temperature, method of ADO administration and duration of exposure to the drug. This study investigates the cardioprotective effect of exogenous ADO pretreatment as an adjunct to 1 mmol l(-1) ADO cold (1...