Surgery News

The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions will be held in-person only in Chicago from Nov. 16 to 18 and will feature eight late-breaking science sessions during the 3-day meeting.

Many recently recalled cardiovascular devices did not undergo premarket testing prior to FDA approval, and postmarket studies of the devices were slow and infrequent, researchers reported.

In patients with HF and secondary mitral regurgitation, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair was noninferior to mitral valve surgery for efficacy and was linked with fewer safety endpoint events, according to data from the MATTERHORN trial.

Discontinuation of renin-angiotensin system inhibitor therapy before major noncardiac surgery did not appear to affect postoperative outcomes vs. treatment continuation, a speaker reported.

Among patients who had cardiac surgery, men were more likely than women to have postoperative atrial fibrillation, but for those with postoperative AF, the mortality risk was greater in women, researchers reported.

Revascularization of carotid arteries has always been a challenging procedure, and both carotid surgery and transfemoral carotid stenting can lead to severe complications.

Compared with 2019, in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalizations for acute MI were down but in-hospital mortality in that population rose in the U.S., researchers reported in the Korean Circulation Journal.

The lack of surgical instruments tailored for women’s hands is just one example of the gender inequity female surgeons face in the workforce.

Text messages delivered to patients’ smartwatches show promise to improve physical activity for those undergoing cardiac rehabilitation, but sustained behavioral change over time may remain a challenge, researchers reported.

Bariatric surgery did not reduce risk for obesity-related cancer or cardiovascular disease compared with nonoperative treatment among adults aged at least 60 years, according to results of a population-based cohort study.