INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The Greek physician Galen first described superficial false aneurysms arising from venesection in the antecubital fossa and in gladiators injured during battle in the second century…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Adults with congenital heart disease now outnumber children with this malady. They constitute a growing population of survivors, with increasingly complex treatment requirements for their heart…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the most common arrhythmia in the world.1 It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality secondary to its detrimental sequelae: (1) palpitations…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Interventional therapies for the treatment of heart rhythm disorders have rapidly evolved over the past three decades, and continue to go through significant evolution. Though management…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Tissue engineering is a developing science, comprising elements of engineering and biology, whose aim is to build replacement tissues de novo, from individual cellular and structural…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Treating aneurysms that arise from the aortic segments distal to the left subclavian artery poses challenges that are distinct from those presented by aneurysms of the…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIS) refers to a collection of techniques and operation-specific technologies, all of which are designed to lessen surgical trauma and improve…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen It can be reasonably argued that the very dawn of cardiac surgery began with a mitral valve repair. On May 20, 1923, Dr Elliot Carr Cutler…
THE NORMAL MITRAL VALVE Print Section Listen Anatomy The mitral annulus is a pliable zone of discontinuous fibrous and muscular tissue that joins the left atrium and left ventricle and…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Injury to the aorta and great vessels of the thorax may occur secondary to penetrating or blunt trauma. The management strategy involves control of immediate hemorrhage…
