Surgery News

The FDA has designated the recall of a pump used in cardiac surgery as class I, the most serious kind.

Effect of 4% albumin solution vs. Ringer’s acetate as priming solution in CABG.

BOSTON — In patients with aortic stenosis, a greater degree of cardiac damage before transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement increased the likelihood of poor quality of life outcomes after the procedure, researchers reported.

BOSTON — Addition of fractional flow reserve to the classic SYNTAX score enabled researchers to identify patients with multivessel CAD undergoing PCI who would have similar 1-year outcomes as those who received CABG, a speaker reported.

BOSTON — In the all-comers SCAAR registry of patients with left main CAD who underwent revascularization in Sweden, PCI was associated with higher mortality rates compared with CABG.

BOSTON — At a median follow-up of 11.8 years, most outcomes did not differ between PCI with an everolimus-eluting stent and CABG in patients with multivessel CAD, according to new data from the BEST trial.

BOSTON — In patients with postinfarction ventricular septal defects, percutaneous and surgical treatments reduced mortality rates compared with historical medical therapy data, researchers reported at TCT 2022.

In the U.S., the use of carotid artery stenting has never been as widespread as that of carotid endarterectomy, which is partly a function of the CMS coverage decision. That may be about to change.

The APPLE scoring system is superior to CHA2DS2‐VASc and CHADS2 in predicting atrial fibrillation recurrence after surgical ablation, data from a retrospective study show.

A mobile health intervention consisting of BP, temperature, weight and ECG monitoring improved detection of postoperative and de novo atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery compared with the usual care, researchers reported.