Surgery News

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement was safe in low-risk patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis, as shown through short hospital stays, zero disabling stroke and zero deaths at 30 days, according to data from the Low-Risk TAVR trial presented at Cardiovascular Research Technologies.

The FDA has designated Abbott Vascular’s product recall of two coronary dilatation catheters as a class 1 recall, the most serious kind. The recall affects 13,891 devices distributed between August and January.

The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy, held Jan. 22 to 25 in Hollywood, Florida, tackled many of the hottest topics in endovascular intervention. To obtain the key take-home messages from ISET 2020, Healio spoke with experts in the field including Robert Lookstein, MD, MHCDL, FSIR, FAHA, FSVM, from Mount Sinai Health System; Jihad A. Mustapha, MD, FACC, FSCAI, from Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Centers for Amputation Prevention in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Constantino S. Peña, MD, FAHA, FSCCT, FSIR, from Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute and Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine; and Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, MHCDS, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, from Massachusetts General Hospital.

Among patients who underwent PCI or CABG between 2003 and 2016, risk-adjusted mortality decreased in the CABG population but not in the PCI population over time, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

The American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation’s annual Cardiac Rehabilitation Week began Sunday with the new theme, “New Start, Better Heart,” and the aim of increasing awareness of its importance in CV health.

Among patients who underwent peripheral artery revascularization, those who were subsequently hospitalized at least once for a major adverse limb event had elevated risk for cardiac and limb events compared with those who were not, researchers reported.

February 9 to 15, 2020 is Cardiac Rehabilitation Week. In recognition, Healio and Cardiology Today have aggregated a list of the top news articles in cardiac rehabilitation. Readers were interested in Medicare beneficiary participation in cardiac rehabilitation as well as the impacts of referral rates, poverty, distance, anxiety and depression on overall participation.

In a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and observational studies, atrial fibrillation after noncardiac surgery was associated with significant increases in risk for stroke, MI and all-cause mortality, according to research published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

Higher levels of a signaling glycoprotein were associated with acute kidney injury in patients who underwent coronary angiography or cardiac surgery, according to study results.

The use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement has increased for young and middle-aged patients with aortic valve disease, but surgical AVR may be the best option for this patient population, according to data presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting and Exhibition.