Surgery News

The minimum high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I tied to 30-day death after cardiac surgery was found to be significantly greater than what is currently recommended to diagnose periprocedural myocardial injury, researchers reported.

Despite similar procedural success, percutaneous mitral valve repair for post-MI mitral regurgitation was associated with lower in-hospital and 1-year mortality vs. surgical mitral valve repair or replacement, researchers reported.

Today is Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day, which serves as a reminder that while many advancements have been made in the treatment of heart valve disease, not all patients have been able to take advantage of them.

The Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement was associated with better long-term survival compared with biological and mechanical AVR, researchers reported.

Posterior left pericardiotomy for prevention of postoperative AF in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Amputation is too often the result for Black patients with critical limb ischemia, and much work must be done to overcome systemic inequities, a speaker said during the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy.

Placement of an atrial shunt device failed to reduce the rate of HF events or improve health status vs. sham in patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, according to results of the REDUCE LAP-HF II trial published in The Lancet.

In patients with critical limb ischemia, CT-derived fractional flow reserve often detected silent coronary ischemia, and selective revascularization of those diagnosed with it improved outcomes, according to a presentation.

Among postmenopausal women with acute MI, Black women were less likely to receive revascularization, particularly PCI, compared with white women, researchers reported.

CVD is the leading cause of death in women globally, but women are less likely to receive CV procedures than men, and not enough is known about sex differences for those procedures, a panel concluded.