Emergent Transventricular Cannulation for a Salvage TAVR Procedure (EP Video)

Renal Protection In Cardiovascular Surgery

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most relevant complications after major surgery and is a predictor of mortality.

Polarized Arrest With Warm or Cold Adenosine/Lidocaine Blood Cardioplegia is Equivalent to Hypothermic Potassium Blood Cardioplegia

This study tested the hypothesis that elective arrest in a polarized state with adenosine (400 mumol/L via adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel opening) and the Na + channel blocker lidocaine (750 mumol/L) as the arresting agents in blood cardioplegia provides cardioprotection comparable to standard hypothermic K + -blood cardioplegia.

Mechanical or Biologic Prostheses for Aortic-Valve and Mitral-Valve Replacement

We compared long-term mortality and rates of reoperation, stroke, and bleeding between inverse-probability-weighted cohorts of patients who underwent primary aortic-valve replacement or mitral-valve replacement with a mechanical or biologic prosthesis in California in the period from 1996 through 2013.