Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for drug intoxications: A single center, 14-year experience.

Background And Aim Of The Study: Acute cardiovascular failure remains a leading cause of death in severe poisonings. Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) has been increasingly used as a rescue therapeutic option for those cases refractory to optimal conventional treatment. We sought to evaluate the outcomes after VA-ECMO used for drug intoxications in a single-center experience.

Eco-audit of conventional heart surgery procedures.

Objectives: Healthcare systems have a significant environmental impact and, thus, indirectly affect public health. In order to improve current practices, a better understanding of the actual environmental impact generated by surgical procedures is necessary.

Methods: An eco-audit methodology was carried out to assess the greenhouse gas emissions arising from conventional isolated cardiac surgery procedures.

The unfinished saga of invasive procedures for secondary mitral regurgitation.

Secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) is a common valvular heart disease. Its prognostic burden in patients suffering from idiopathic or ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction/dilation has been clearly demonstrated. Severe secondary MR is associated with an increased mortality and frequent heart failure hospitalizations.

Beating versus arrested heart isolated tricuspid valve surgery: An 11-year experience in the current era.

Background And Aim Of The Study: Data about the beating heart (BH) technique for isolated tricuspid valve (TV) surgery compared to the arrested heart (AH) technique are sparse. We compared the outcomes of isolated TV surgery between BH and AH technique.

Methods: We performed an observational analysis of our database of isolated TV surgery.