Safe Landing: Feasibility and Safety of Operating Room Extubation in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Valve Surgery.

Objective: This study was designed to explore key safety outcomes after operating room (OR) extubation in minimally invasive cardiac valve surgery.

Design: Single-center retrospective chart review.

Setting: Academic medical center in the United States.

Perioperative Characteristics and Outcomes of Fontan Versus Non-Fontan Patients Undergoing Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Objectives: Combined heart-liver transplantation (CHLT) is becoming increasingly frequent as a maturing population of patients with Fontan-palliated congenital heart disease develop advanced liver fibrosis or cirrhosis. The authors present their experience with CHLT for congenital and noncongenital indications, and identify characteristics associated with poor outcomes that may guide intervention in high-risk patients.

Design: This was a single-center retrospective cohort study.

Perioperative implications of patients with alpha gal allergies.

Alpha Gal Syndrome (AGS) is an emerging immune response to mammalian products (MP) containing the oligosaccharide galactose-α-1,3 galactose (α-Gal) which includes meats and inactive ingredients in certain medications. This becomes clinically important in the perioperative realm as MPs are commonly found in the operating room, and pre- and post-operative settings, and can trigger responses as severe as anaphylaxis. In this review, authors discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of AGS reactions.