Increasingly, there are patients with concomitant coronary artery disease and aortic valve, especially in elderly patients, who often have severe comorbidities and high surgical risk, which is undoubtedly a certain effect on the choice of method and tactics of treatment. Today, there are several approaches to the treatment of patients in this category, and all of them have certain advantages and disadvantages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHybrid technologies are becoming increasingly strong position in modern cardiac surgery. New standards and expanding the indications for use of these techniques are delivered. The advantages of hybrid interventions are to a substantial reduction in trauma patients during surgery, reducing the risk of both intra- and postoperative complications, death, the most important for the elderly and senile age.
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