Background— Health-care–acquired infections (HAIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and
mortality after cardiac surgery. Prior work has identified several patient-related risk factors …

Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has increased in volume as an
alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). Comparisons of total episode …

Background Less invasive techniques for left ventricular assist device implantation have
been increasingly prevalent over past years and have been associated with improved clinical …

Objective: Warm blood cardioplegia requires interruption by ischemic intervals to aid
visualization. We evaluated the safety of repeated interruption of warm blood cardioplegia by …

BACKGROUND: Patients who survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are at high risk for
recurrent arrest. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) confers a survival advantage, but it is …

Penetrating ascending aortic ulcers are rarely encountered, yet they present significant risk
of hemorrhage and aortic dissection. Expedient recognition and repair is of vital importance. …

Despite theoretical advantages of direct thrombin inhibitors, recent clinical studies failed to
show the superiority of hirudin over heparin in patients with acute coronary syndromes. …

Aortoesophageal fistula is a rare manifestation of thoracic aortic surgery or esophageal
disease. We describe a patient who underwent emergent endovascular repair of an …

Mitral valve annular calcification has long been a challenge in repairing posterior mitral valve
prolapse. Folding valvuloplasty of the posterior leaflet without resection provides a means …

Fluidics based single cell RNASeq (scRNASeq) provides a high throughput method for
quantifying gene expression at single cell resolution. However, it remains unclear whether this …