Surgery News

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement was associated with similar long-term mortality and stroke risk vs. surgery for severe aortic stenosis, but with greater risk for pacemaker implant with self-expanding TAVR valves, a speaker reported.

In younger patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement was associated with similar outcomes to surgical AVR, except in those with bicuspid valves, researchers reported.

A new guideline on lower-extremity peripheral artery disease encouraged managing care with a multispecialty team and having patients undergo structured exercise programs.

A percutaneous approach to treatment of severe aortic stenosis and complex CAD was superior to surgical valve replacement and CABG, a speaker reported.

Endovascular therapy with stent implantation confers similar outcomes and lower complication rates vs. vascular bypass surgery for symptomatic femoropopliteal peripheral artery disease, regardless of sex, a speaker reported.

ATLANTA — Among patients with lower socioeconomic status, interventions based on case management and financial incentives improved attendance at cardiac rehabilitation sessions, according to the results of the HeLP trial.

The 2024 American College of Cardiology Scientific Session will be held live in Atlanta from April 6 to 8 and virtually, with 43 late-breaking trials and featured clinical research presentations.

Heart surgery is normally an invasive procedure involving a sternotomy, in which a surgeon cuts open the patient’s breastbone or sternum. Twenty years ago, Joseph Lamelas, MD, thought it did not always need to be that way.

Abiomed has issued a recall of the instructions for use for its left-sided blood pumps, as the pump catheter may perforate the wall of the left ventricle or cause free wall rupture, hypertension, lack of blood flow or death.

Hyperangulated video laryngoscopy among patients being intubated increased initial intubation attempt success and reduced the number of intubation attempts vs. direct laryngoscopy, a study showed.