Publications by authors named "Vincent Conti"
Article Synopsis
- A study evaluated a new treatment method using low-dose, slow infusion of tissue plasminogen activator (alteplase) for pump thrombosis in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVAD).
- The protocol was applied to four female patients over four years, resulting in successful treatment of six out of seven thrombosis cases, although one patient faced severe complications and died.
- The findings suggest that this approach is effective and has a lower risk of bleeding complications compared to traditional methods.
Background: Critical care nurses who care for postoperative cardiac surgery patients need such specialty knowledge as atrial electrograms (AEGs). An inadequate audit trail exists for psychometric performance of instruments to measure knowledge of AEGs.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to revise a previously tested instrument and assess evidence for content validity (content validity index), internal consistency (Cronbach α), and stability (correlation coefficient, r) reliability against the a priori criterion of 0.
Reply: The issues to address when repairing ischemic mitral regurgitation.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
February 2022
Commentary: Postoperative atrial fibrillation, predictor of late risk?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
May 2021
Reply: Beta or worse: More work needed to determine benefit or harm in aortic valve surgery.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
January 2020
Commentary: Preoperative β-blockers-One size does not fit all when considering management.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
December 2019
Preventing Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation: Is There One Best Option?
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
June 2018
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for recovery, then elective surgical repair.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
April 2018
Poststernotomy mediastinitis: Early risk factors identified but hard to modify.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
March 2018
Ascending aortopathy with bicuspid aortic valve: Individualizing the threshold.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
February 2018
Ventricular perforation during exposure of an intramyocardial left anterior descending artery (LAD) in preparation for coronary artery bypass grafting is a known surgical complication. In this report, we discuss the management of this complication which avoids closure of the LAD and a myocardial infarction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChoice of second pericardial drainage tube for posterior placement.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
August 2017
Draining the posterior pericardial space: Pericardiotomy versus just another tube.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
April 2017
We report a 21-year-old patient with a ventricular septal defect (VSD) with an embolic vegetation on the tricuspid valve using a technique of septal leaflet detachment to facilitate the repair of the VSD. Although described in the pediatric patients, this technique has not been reported in adults. The technique of septal leaflet mobilization is described, along with other techniques of tricuspid leaflet mobilization that aid in VSD visualization and repair.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConstriction, effusion, or both: Radical pericardiectomy with improved outcomes.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
August 2016
A 41-year-old African American woman presented with chest pain and was found to have non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction with a peak cardiac troponin I of 28.5. Elective cardiac catheterization revealed a 70% ostial left anterior descending (LAD) artery stenosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncreasingly, patients undergo heart transplant after previous heart surgery. In patients with a persistent left superior vena cava (LSVC), the preferred technique, preservation of drainage via the native coronary sinus, can be difficult in reoperative cases due to adhesions. We report a technique simplifying this operation in such a patient.
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