Publications by authors named "Jacky Y K Ho"

Article Synopsis
  • - A 67-year-old woman had a giant ancient schwannoma tumor in her left atrium that required complex surgical removal.
  • - The surgery involved a challenging procedure with extensive resections in both atria and the interatrial septum.
  • - The modified superior trans-septal approach was used, allowing for reconstruction without the need for auto-transplantation.
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The frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique can be applied to extensive aortic pathology, including lesions in the aortic arch and proximal descending thoracic aorta. FET is useful for tear-oriented surgery in dissections, managing malperfusion syndrome, and promoting positive aortic remodeling. Despite these benefits, complications such as distal stent-induced new entry and spinal cord ischemia can pose serious problems with the FET technique.

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Background: Aortic arch pathology often requires staged segmental repairs. Total aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk (FET) offers surgical options for these pathologies. The Jotec E-vita Open NEO™ branched prosthesis was introduced in 2020; we sought to share our initial experience focusing on the prosthesis selection strategies, surgical techniques, anastomosis-bleeding and graft-oozing control methods, and early clinical outcomes from two Asian centers.

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Introduction: Open surgery is the gold standard treatment for aortic arch disease. However, due to its complexity, open arch replacement is associated with considerable risk of mortality and morbidity.

Method: We report a case of a 71-year-old gentleman with multiple comorbidities and symptomatic 7 cm aortic arch aneurysm who was treated with a single-stage carotid-carotid and left carotid-axillary bypass followed by zone 0 aortic arch stenting with bimodular Nexus™ stent graft.

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Background: Novel clinical challenges are faced by cardiac surgeons under the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Amidst the uncertainties faced due to the socioeconomic and public health impact, there is little evidence surrounding COVID-19 vaccination in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Timing of vaccination and postvaccination adverse effects are required parameters to discuss with cardiac surgical patients.

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A patient who underwent candy-plug insertion in the year 2016 developed type 1B endoleak with rapid enlargement of distal descending thoracic aortic aneurysm in the year 2021 despite the initial successful false lumen occlusion and thrombosis. Open conversion with Crawford extent 3 thoracoabdominal aortic replacement was performed successfully and the patient was discharged home without any major complications.

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Excessive oozing after total arch replacement with the frozen elephant trunk technique through the fabric of the E-vita Open NEO raised concern about its early adaptation. The mechanism is speculated to be multifactorial. Our goal was to report our approach using pre-emptive BioGlue priming on the fabric against the oozing phenomenon.

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We report first in man implantations of the newly designed Evita-open-NEO hybrid prosthesis for complex aortic arch disease from three different countries in Asia-Pacific including instructions on how to proceed with perioperative coagulation management.

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Background: Despite significant advancements in operative techniques and myocardial protection, triple valve surgery (TVS) remains a formidable operation with a relatively high in-hospital mortality. We evaluated the prognostic value of Model for End-stage Liver Disease score including sodium (MELD-Na) for mortality after TVS and its predictive value when incorporated in the EuroSCORE risk model.

Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study of 61 consecutive patients who underwent TVS from November 2005 to June 2016.

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Background And Aim: The Valiant Navion stent graft system is a third-generation low profile thoracic endograft designed for thoracic endovascular aortic repair. In this population analysis, we report on the first Asian all-comers experience and outcomes who underwent thoracic endovascular aortic repair with the use of this new stent graft system.

Methods: Between May 2019 and October 2020, 21 patients with different aortic pathologies were prospectively recruited and retrospectively analyzed.

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Aortic arch pathologies have been a surgical challenge, involving cerebral, visceral and myocardial protection. Innovative techniques including total arch replacement and frozen elephant trunk had evolved over last decades with promising mid-term outcomes. We evaluate our mid-term outcomes on total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk and the role of timely second staged interventions.

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Background: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the standard of care for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). Despite recent evidence supporting the role of CABG, long term outcomes for patients with ICM remain poor and 10-year results post CABG in ICM patients are under-reported, especially among Asians. Uncertainty on whether CABG improves cardiac performance and survival in the long term remains.

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Background: Management of acute type A intramural hematoma (IMH) is a controversial topic. In our study, we aim to analyze the survival outcomes in local patients with acute type A IMH and a meta-analysis on survival in type A IMH treated medically versus surgically was performed.

Methods: From 2014 to 2019, 65 patients with acute type A IMH were selected for analysis.

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Neurological complications remain a major burden in cardiac surgery, despite various intraoperative measures attempting to reduce its occurrence. Advancement of percutaneous approach in valve replacement has brought focus to the use of cerebral protection system (CPS). We reported a novel application of percutaneous CPS in open heart surgery for a patient with an extensive calcified left atrial thrombus to reduce risk of embolic stroke.

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With the advent of advanced technology in performing diagnostics for lung cancer, an incremental increase in the number of patients with oligometastatic disease is currently being managed with intent to cure. As treatment of selected types of patients with oligometastasis show favourable outcomes, the past notion of managing these patients palliatively is fast becoming extinct. Selection of patients based on established criterion together with surgical metastasectomy combined with multiple ablative techniques with or without systemic chemotherapy offers a reasonable rate of treatment success which provides basis for treating such patient population.

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The Thoraflex™ device is a composite 4-branched graft with a distal endovascular stent that allows either a one-stage treatment or an endovascular second-stage treatment of multisegment aortic pathologies. Reports on open second-stage treatment after the Thoraflex™ device implantation are sparse especially regarding the technical aspects. We described our surgical procedure of open second-stage descending thoracic aortic replacement after Thoraflex™ implantation with a special focus on the anastomosis technique to a stent graft.

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Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been gaining much attention in the medical field in recent years. At present, 3D printing most commonly contributes in pre-operative surgical planning of complicated surgery. It is also utilized for producing personalized prosthesis, well demonstrated by the customized rib cage, vertebral body models and customized airway splints.

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We describe a case of total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk for chronic type B aortic dissecting aneurysm, which resulted in inadvertent landing of the frozen elephant trunk into the false lumen. A radiofrequency puncture system-assisted controlled endovascular fenestration of the dissection flap was performed at the upper abdominal aorta and subsequent thoracic endovascular stenting, successfully redirecting the blood flow from the false to the true lumen. Our case illustrated a possible way to seal distal reentry in chronic type B aortic dissection.

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Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lung wedge resection usually requires three devices, thoracoscope, lung retracting instrument and an endo-stapler cutter to perform the procedure. With advances in miniaturization of the thoracoscope and lung retracting instruments, a major limitation to operating through a smaller uniportal incision has become the endo-stapler. We describe the surgical technique for uniportal VATS laser lung resection which uses a much narrower laser catheter device to replace the endo-stapler for resection.

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Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) offers a less invasive treatment for aortic arch aneurysms. Clinical challenges arise when there is inadequate proximal landing for zone 1 TEVAR, such that a median sternotomy with total aortic debranching is required before stent deployment. The chimney technique was reported as an alternative approach to stent the arch branches and avoid sternotomy, but it was still associated with considerable chance of a type IA endoleak.

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