Non-prompt surgery for patients with acute type A aortic dissection without pre-operative shock and malperfusion.

Background: Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) requires urgent surgical treatment. However, during daily practice, there were some patients with ATAAD sought for medical attention several days after symptoms occurred and some other patients hesitated to receive aortic surgery after the diagnosis of ATAAD was made. This study aims to investigate the surgical outcomes of non-prompt aortic surgery (delayed diagnosis caused by the patient or delayed surgery despite immediate diagnosis) for ATAAD patients.

Surgical Strategies for Cardiac Perforation After Catheter Ablation or Electrophysiology Study.

Catheter ablation is a treatment modality which has been increasingly used for cardiac arrhythmias. However, it is not complication-free, and cardiac perforation is one of its most life-threatening complications. As surgery is usually not the first-line treatment for this emergent episode, there were only very few sporadic surgical reports in the literature.

Perceptions of medical students towards and effectiveness of online surgical curriculum: a systematic review.

Background: Online education has been used as an adjunct modality for teaching and it attracts attention in recent years as many medical students can not accomplish their clerkship in the hospital due to COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to collect the articles related to online surgical education for medical students, and to analyze the effectiveness of online education and the perceptions of the medical students.

Method: We performed a systemic literature search in PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, ERIC and Cochrane library.

Surgical or interventional treatment for adult patients with atrial septal defect and atrial fibrillation: A systemic review and meta-analysis.

The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AFib) in adult patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) who did not undergo ASD repair in the childhood is higher than that in general population. The primary aim of this study is to collect various related articles published in the literature and to compare the clinical outcomes with different treatment strategies by systemic reviews and meta-analyses. Of the 1299 initially screened articles, 13 studies with 213 patients were included in this study.

Retrograde cerebral perfusion for surgery of type A aortic dissection.

Background: For type A aortic dissection (TAAD), antegrade cerebral perfusion (ACP) was proposed as a more physiological method than retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) for intra-operative brain protection, but it is still debatable whether antegrade cerebral perfusion (ACP) or retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) is related to the better clinical outcome. The present study was undertaken to compare the results in our patients receiving surgery for TAAD with ACP or RCP. The primary aim of this study was focused on the incidence of and the factors associated with surgical mortality, post-operative neurological outcomes and long-term survival.

Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Right Ventricular Failure with Atrial Septostomy After Corrective Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot.

Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction may occur after cardiac surgery and it is not rare after corrective repair of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). If traditional treatments with volume management, infusion of inotropic agents, and use of pulmonary vasodilators cannot stabilize the patient, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or a ventricular assist device (VAD) will be considered as the last resort. Here, we report a young infant patient with RV failure after corrective repair of TOF and without closure of an atrial septal defect (ASD), who was rescued by veno-venous (VV) -ECMO.

Staged surgical repair for infants with interrupted aortic arch.

Background: Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly, which necessitates surgical treatment. There are several surgical strategies for corrective repair of IAA, such as one-stage repair, rapid two-stage repair and two-stage repair. Here, we reported our surgical result of staged-repair policy for the patients with IAA.

[Nursing care of endovascular aneurysm repair patients].

The treatment of aortic disease previously used conventional open surgery to replace the aorta with artificial vascular prosthesis after resecting the lesioned segment. The recently developed technique of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) uses a stent graft to reinforce the diseased aortic wall while allowing blood flow continuity and preventing further aortic expansion, dissection and aortic rupture. Taiwan's National Health Insurance now covers payment for authorized EVAR procedures, making treatments safer for patients who are elderly, have congestive heart failure, have multiple comorbidities, or have other high-risk factors.