In the new posthoc subanalysis, investigators led by Vinod H. Thourani, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA), compared 341 TAVR patients with patients receiving either ...

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial ...

Almost 60% required full sternotomy, 33% required mini upper sternotomy and 8% right anterior thoracotomy. Thirty-day mortality was 0.8% and 96.4% were alive at the end of the first year post-surgery.

The TRANSFORM trial was designed to evaluate the safety and performance of an investigational rapid deployment aortic valve replacement system for patients with severe aortic stenosis. Presented ...

Most patients who have mitral valve leaks are candidates for mitral valve repair or replacement surgery. The options are: Full sternotomy — The surgeon will make an eight- to 10-inch incision down the ...

Sternotomy typically requires about six days in the hospital, and six to eight weeks of recovery. For the minimally invasive procedure, the hospital stay is about three to four days, and full ...

TAVI is a minimally invasive procedure that obviates the need for a full sternotomy, which is the standard chest-opening approach used in traditional heart surgeries. This minimizes trauma and ...

The first clinical trial of a full-support VAD using an implant technique other than sternotomy, the HVAD LATERAL Study is a prospective, multicenter, single-arm clinical trial that was designed to ...

Implementing a new, properly fitted surgical bra and updated patient care protocols for women after sternotomy reduced the incidence of post-surgical chest wounds from 6.4% to 0.0%.

Conversion rates to open procedures (either mini-thoracotomy or full sternotomy) were reported in all case series and ranged from 19% (5 of 27) to 51% (19 of 37) of procedures initiated as TECAB.

Cardiac rehabilitation can start 2 weeks after sternotomy rather than waiting the ... "Perhaps the greatest challenges to full realization of the benefits of CR in practice have been gaps in ...