Association between PET/CT Scan Findings, Treatment, and Cancer Incidence in a Cohort of AAA Patients.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that poses several challenges. Given the increasing evidence that AAA patients are more likely to develop cancer and the importance of its early detection, we strived to develop a non-invasive tool based on serial FDG-PET/CT scan examinations to identify, among AAA patients, those at risk of cancer. Between 2006 and 2011 we recruited 149 AAA patients, free of cancer at baseline, and followed them until the end of 2021.

Off-Label Use of COR-KNOT Automated Fastener for Manual Bronchial Closure Through a Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Approach.

Manual closure of the bronchial stump can be challenging during minimally invasive thoracic surgery. An automated fastener has been used for more than a decade in minimally invasive heart valve surgery to eliminate the need for manual knot tying during the suturing of prosthetic valves. Herein, we describe the use of the COR-KNOT automated fastener (LSI SOLUTIONS, Victor, NY, USA) in a case of video-assisted left upper lobectomy with open section of the bronchus and manual closure with interrupted resorbable sutures for a malignant bronchial tumor located on the proximal part of the left upper lobe bronchus.

[Aortic valve repair surgery : state of the art and clinical experience of the university hospital center of Liege].

In the past 20 years, there has been a real development of aortic valve repair techniques with an increasing number of publications describing the long-term benefits of aortic valve repair in terms of survival, freedom from major adverse valve related-events and reoperations. Aortic valve repair can now be considered as a valuable alternative to prosthetic valve replacement in patients with dystrophic ascending aorta pathology associated or not to aortic insufficiency with pliable leaflets. In this paper, the authors describe the state of the art of aortic valve repair and present their clinical experience with aortic valve repair surgery in the university hospital center of Liege from April 2021 to September 2022.

Giant vegetation of the tricuspid valve in a healthy patient without risk factors for right-sided endocarditis.

We present the case of a middle-aged man who developed infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve caused by methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and associated with very large vegetation (∼5 cm). Besides the quite unusual size of the vegetation, this report highlights that severe right-sided endocarditis can occur in the absence of classical risk factors (intravenous drug abuse, presence of a cardiac implantable electronic device or other intravascular devices, and underlying right-sided cardiac anomaly) and that some cases of severe tricuspid endocarditis can be successfully treated by partial excision and patch repair.