Cardiothoracic
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Mortality Soared With Post-TAVR Vascular Complications
Major Finding: Patients with major vascular complications following TAVR had significantly higher 30-day mortality (14% vs. 3%) and 1-year...
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Radiofrequency Ablation Frees Majority From Atrial Fibrillation
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Data Clarify Diagnosis, Treatment of Thoracoabdominal Trauma
Major Finding: The majority of patients with isolated thoracoabdominal trauma arriving alive and without severe head trauma (72.3%) were managed...
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No Consensus on Best Surgery for Neonatal Heart Syndrome
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TAVR at 10: A Review
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Operative Error Skews Surgeons' Decision to Withdraw Support
Major Finding: Surgeons evaluating complications after emergency surgery that did not involve surgeon error were nearly twice as likely to agree...
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Delirium Signals Cognitive Risk After Heart Surgery
Major Finding: Patients who developed postoperative delirium following cardiac surgery showed a greater cognitive decline during hospitalization...
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Transfusions, Blood Conservation Yield Similar Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery
Major Finding: Compared with transfusion recipients, Jehovah's Witnesses who refused transfusions after undergoing similar cardiac surgery had...
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Delayed Surgery a Plus for Blunt Aortic Injury
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Infusions Didn't Lower Cardiac Surgery-Related Kidney Injury
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Stress Echo in Asymptomatic Revascularized Patients Not Useful
Major Finding: Exercise stress echocardiography can identify the small minority (13%) of post-PCI and post-CABG patients who are at higher...