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J Multidiscip Healthc
January 2025
Nursing Department, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, West Jawa, Indonesia.
Background: Permanent Pacemaker (PPM) implantation is essential in treating cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disorders, especially in patients with heart failure. Although PPM has been proven to improve quality of life and prolong life expectancy in patients with cardiac conduction disorders, post implantation complications still often occur.
Purpose: This study aimed to identify types of complications and associated predictors in patients undergoing PPM implantation.
Cureus
November 2024
Cardiology, Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center, Akita, JPN.
Background Ventricular septal pacing has long been performed using a stylet during pacemaker implantation, but with the availability of guiding catheters, His bundle pacing and left bundle branch area pacing have also been performed. However, it is not known to what extent the tip load of the ventricular lead differs when a guiding catheter is used compared with a stylet alone. In this study, the tip load was measured for different stylet stiffness and guiding catheter geometries at sites where His bundle pacing and left bundle branch area pacing were assumed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Thorac Surg
December 2024
Sorbonne University, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Cardiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France.
Background: Lower mini-sternotomy offers the advantage of providing excellent visualization of the 4 cardiac cavities, allowing surgical treatment of aortic, mitral and tricuspid valves as well as any intra-cavitary procedure. Technical issues, as well as safety and echocardiographic results of this approach, are lacking. The aim of this retrospective study was to describe outcomes of lower mini-sternotomy to treat valvulopathies and other intracardiac surgeries.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, The Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (E.M.Z.).
Background: Covered stent correction for a sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVASD) was first performed in 2009. This innovative approach was initially viewed as experimental and was reserved for highly selected patients with unusual anatomic variants. In 2016, increasing numbers of procedures began to be performed, and in several centers, it is now offered as a standard of care option alongside surgical repair.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to investigate the immediate and long-term outcomes of the Cox-Maze IV procedure in patients undergoing surgical treatment for multivalvular heart disease with atrial fibrillation. It also sought to identify predictors of atrial fibrillation recurrence in the long-term period.
Materials And Methods: We conducted an analysis of 92 patients who underwent multivalvular heart defect correction and simultaneous Cox-Maze IV procedure between 2017 and 2023.
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