Anesthesia and perioperative management of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: analysis of 90 consecutive patients with focus on perioperative complications.

Objective: To describe, from the point of view of anesthesia and intensive care specialists, the perioperative management of high-risk patients with aortic stenosis who underwent transcatheter (transfemoral and transapical) aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The authors specifically focused on immediate postoperative complications.

Design: Retrospective review of collected data.

Comparison of minithoracotomy and conventional sternotomy approaches for valve surgery.

Objective: To compare patients undergoing valve surgery through a minithoracotomy approach with a matched group undergoing conventional valve surgery.

Design: Control study.

Setting: University hospital, single center.