Beating vs Arrested Heart Isolated Tricuspid Valve Surgery: Long-term Outcomes

CONCLUSIONS: Isolated tricuspid valve surgery performed with a beating heart strategy is a safe option and resulted in a trend of increased long-term survival and freedom from reoperation when compared with the standard arrested heart technique. Patients undergoing beating heart valve repair had the best long-term outcome.PMID:33831392 | DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.03.070

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - April 8, 2021 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Marco Russo Michele Di Mauro Guglielmo Saitto Antonio Lio Paolo Berretta Maurizio Taramasso Roberto Scrofani Alessandro Della Corte Sandro Sponga Ernesto Greco Matteo Saccocci Antonio Calafiore Giacomo Bianchi Dror B Leviner Andrea Biondi Ester Della Ratt Source Type: research