14 results match your criteria: "Hospital of Cardiology UMAE 34[Affiliation]"

eComment. Resident surgical training in mitral valve surgery.

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

November 2016

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Cardiology UMAE 34, IMSS, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

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Mini-partial heart autotransplantation: a different way to perform the Cox-maze III.

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

August 2015

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Cardiology UMAE 34, IMSS, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

The Cox-maze III procedure is the gold standard for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. Because of its complexity, this procedure has not been widely accepted by cardiac surgeons. We describe a technique that allows one to work on the mitral valve while more safely performing the standard 'cut-and-sew' Cox-maze III procedure at the same time.

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Background: Pulmonary vein isolation has been employed to eliminate paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. However, the long-term outcome in terms of long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation is unclear.

Methods: One hundred patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease and long-standing (>1 year) persistent atrial fibrillation were operated on between July 1998 and June 2007.

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Minimally invasive full biatrial Cox maze IV: we are going in the right direction.

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

November 2014

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Cardiology UMAE 34, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Monterrey, Mexico.

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