According to 2008–2012 data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 66% of mitral-valve surgeries in patients undergoing CABG used a repair approach. 41 However, our comparison between chordal ...

as compared with CABG and mitral-valve repair. 52,53 Acute Coronary Syndromes and ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction The evidence in favor of CABG is almost entirely based on studies of ...

Greenbrae, Calif.-based MarinHealth has launched a cardiothoracic surgery program at the MarinHealth Heart and Vascular Institute.  The surgeons in the program perform procedures including aortic and ...

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels offers a minimally invasive heart valve procedure called transcatheter mitral ...

Capstan Medical’s robot platform has been used for the first in-human robotic assisted transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

Nov. 13, 2003 (Orlando) — Results of a placebo-controlled trial from Canadian researchers suggests that a course of oral amiodarone prophylaxis reduces by about half atrial fibrillation (AF ...

Surgical revision after percutaneous mitral valve repair with a clip: initial multicenter experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Dec;80(6):2338-42.

Areas of expertise My main research interests include: Saphenous vein bypass graft failure; beating heart (off-pump) coronary surgery; arterial revascularisation; mitral valve repair. The introduction ...

Dr. Selzman told the Dennings that he would try to repair Greg's native mitral valve three times during surgery. After that, if he felt unsatisfied with the quality of the repair, he would replace the ...