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Interventional Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting) or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes. Cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists and imaging specialists typically work together as the Heart Team, in particular in structural heart centres of excellence. In this section, you will find a selection of content in the field of interventional vardiovascular surgery.

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PCR Spotlight: Cardiac intervention after COVID - where do we go from here?

10 Jun 2020

F. Maisano, B. Prendergast and W. Wijns discuss how to plan the future at the end of the lockdown and the confinement, measures of prevention in case of a new outbreak, and the need for physicians to stay connected and keep learning... ...

Cardiac intervention after COVID

Case study: entrapment of a rotablator in a freshly implanted stent surgically extracted

02 Apr 2019

Consult this clinical case of a 75-year-old male patient by O. Muller on Rotablator entrapment, if you want to learn how to manage a rotablation atherectomy complication via surgery.

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Olivier Muller
Entrapment of a rotablator

TAVI: a fascinating 20-year-long odyssey with a happy ending

10 Nov 2017

This new "disruptive" technology is among the most important medical breakthroughs to date. TAVI emerged in 2002 to profoundly alter the landscape of cardiovascular medicine.

TAVI: a fascinating 20-year-long odyssey with a happy ending.