Wearable accelerometer devices measure free-living physical activity and sleep without relying on self-reports. Their utility to measure and compare recovery of physical function after cardiac surgery ...

Introduction Numbers of patients undergoing mitral valve repair (MVr) surgery for severe mitral regurgitation have grown and will continue to rise. MVr is routinely performed via median sternotomy; ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Since its inception, cardiovascular surgery has posed numerous technical challenges for surgeons. In a continuous quest for enhancement, cardiovascular surgeons have sought to ...

Background: A 54-year-old man with a 22-year history of rheumatoid arthritis and an 8-year history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented with dyspnea on exertion, nonproductive cough and ...

Department of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Laboratory, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland Faculty of ...

We have developed a novel technique for accessing the aortic valve (AoV) through the left anterior minithoracotomy (LAmT). This approach has been used in patients requiring both AoV surgery and ...

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) has emerged relatively recently for the surgical repair of congenital heart disease (CHD).1–6 We have reported excellent results in terms of surgical outcomes ...

1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain 2 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain Background: Robotic ...

UK: Minithoracotomy was shown to be non-superior to sternotomy in the recovery of physical function at 12 weeks for degenerative mitral regurgitation in a recent study in JAMA (Journal of the American ...

The UK Mini Mitral trial, showing that mitral valve repair with the less invasive minithoracotomy approach achieved similar outcomes compared with sternotomy, has now been published. The trial, which ...