Professional medical liability, clinical practice guidelines and Lex Artis. The importance of following clinical practice guidelines recommendations.

Professional medical liability is the result of medical malpractice, which may be due to negligence, incompetence or carelessness. Lex Artis is the set of skills and knowledge that have been universally accepted by peers, which must be diligently applied in the specific situation of a given patient. Thus, Lex Artis is essentially everything contained in clinical practice guidelines.

Transcatheter "edge-to-edge" mitral valve repair: influence of bias in randomized trials.

Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) is the result of three-dimensional structural disruption of the mitral valve due to left ventricular dysfunction. The "edge-to-edge" surgical technique has given rise to the percutaneous transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) technique to treat FMR; however, the lack of a mitral annuloplasty ring makes TEER only partially effective, with uncertain long-term results. The MITRA-FR and COAPT trials, on which current TEER recommendations are based, show conflicting results.

Efectividad del procedimiento de Cox-maze III a largo plazo y su relación con el tamaño posoperatorio de la aurícula izquierda.

Introduction: The cox-maze III procedure is designed to eliminate atrial fibrillation (AF).

Objective: To determine the relationship of left atrial (LA) postoperative size after undergoing the Cox-maze III procedure.

Method: From July 2012 to April 2016, 50 patients with primary mitral valve disease and concomitant AF were operated on.