Samuel Kesseli, Seth Em Wolf, Jacob N Schroder, Ziv Beckerman, Douglas M Overbey, Joseph W Turek
{"title":"The Living Ross Procedure - A New Paradigm in Partial Heart Transplantation.","authors":"Samuel Kesseli, Seth Em Wolf, Jacob N Schroder, Ziv Beckerman, Douglas M Overbey, Joseph W Turek","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.04.039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.04.039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the Ross procedure, homograft stenosis and regurgitation have limited the longevity of the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery (RV-PA) conduit. Partial heart transplantation (PHT) facilitates conduit growth throughout the life of the child. We report the application of PHT of the RV-PA conduit during a Ross procedure, \"Living Ross\", in a three-year old patient with a congenital unicuspid aortic valve. Pulmonary autograft was used in the aortic position, and an aortic root allograft from the cardiectomy of an adult heart transplant recipient served as the RV-PA conduit. We hypothesize that the Ross, \"Living Ross\", improves the longevity of the RV-PA conduit.</p>","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica K Millar, Callie VanWinkle, Catherine Wagner, Matthew Kazaleh, Steven F Bolling, Jeremy Wolverton, Robert B Hawkins, Gorav Ailawadi
{"title":"Impact of Pacemaker Implantation on Long-Term Survival Following Mitral Valve Surgery.","authors":"Jessica K Millar, Callie VanWinkle, Catherine Wagner, Matthew Kazaleh, Steven F Bolling, Jeremy Wolverton, Robert B Hawkins, Gorav Ailawadi","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Conduction disorders requiring permanent pacemaker implantation (PPM) following aortic valve surgery have been associated with reduced long-term survival. However, data regarding PPM after mitral valve surgery (MVS) has been limited. We evaluated the impact of new PPM on long-term survival following MVS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>All patients who underwent MVS from 2000-2022 at a single institution were stratified by need for new postoperative PPM. The primary outcome was long-term survival. To evaluate resource utilization, secondary outcomes included ICU length of stay and 30-day hospital readmission. Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox proportional hazard models were utilized to assess the association between PPM and long-term survival.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 4,690 patients who underwent MVS, 245 (5.2%) required PPM. Patients requiring PPM had more preoperative risk factors including previous cardiac intervention (47.4% vs 35.3%; P <0.01) and concomitant cardiac procedures (89.8% vs 71.42%; p <0.01). Patients with PPM had longer ICU lengths of stay (128 hours [IQR: 69-194] vs 52 hours [IQR:28-96], p <0.01) and greater ICU readmissions (19.6% vs 10.8%; p<0.01). On Kaplan-Meier analysis, PPM was associated with decreased 10-year survival (Figure 1; p <0.01). After adjusting for pre-operative risk factors and concomitant operations, PPM was not independently associated with worse long-term survival (HR: 0.70; 95% CI: 0.40-1.3. p=0.28).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PPM following MVS is not independently associated with worse long-term survival. However, patients requiring PPM have worse clinical status at baseline. These findings demonstrate the importance of identifying patients at risk for PPM to facilitate perioperative planning to improve resource utilization and survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch after Heart Valve Replacement.","authors":"Tirone E David","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Vulnerability Index: A Tool to Help Close the Quality Chasm?","authors":"Ellie R Rasmussen, Kathryn E Engelhardt","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica S Clothier, Serge Kobsa, Markian Bojko, Lynette Lester, Nithya Rajeev, Jonathan Praeger, Sanjeet Patel, Anahat Dhillon, Ajay Vaidya, Aaron Wolfson, Jonathan Nattiv, Mark Barr, Amy Hackmann, Raymond Lee
{"title":"An Institutional Comparison of Patients Supported with Surgical versus Percutaneous Biventricular Assist Devices.","authors":"Jessica S Clothier, Serge Kobsa, Markian Bojko, Lynette Lester, Nithya Rajeev, Jonathan Praeger, Sanjeet Patel, Anahat Dhillon, Ajay Vaidya, Aaron Wolfson, Jonathan Nattiv, Mark Barr, Amy Hackmann, Raymond Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.04.038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.04.038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Surgical Biventricular Assist Devices (sBiVADs) are well-established in end-stage heart failure, while newer and less-invasive percutaneous BiVADs (pBiVADs) are understudied. We report these two approaches in the largest pBiVAD patient series to date METHODS: All consecutive BiVAD-supported patients at our institution from 2014 to 2023 were retrospectively reviewed (n=46). sBiVAD (n=27) and pBiVAD patients (n=19) (defined as Impella 5.5 with Impella RP [n = 4] or percutaneous oxygenated-right ventricular assist device [n = 15]) were compared.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were no significant differences in preoperative risk factors. pBiVAD patients required fewer intraoperative packed red blood cells (2.0 vs 6.0, p <0.001), fresh frozen plasma (0.0 vs 4.0, p=0.001), and platelet (0.0 vs 4.0, p=0.001) transfusions. pBiVADs had fewer unanticipated returns to the operating room (0.47 ± 0.70 vs 2.22 ± 1.87 per patient, p < 0.001) and fewer postoperative packed red blood cells (8.0 vs 27.0, p<0.001), fresh frozen plasma (1.0 vs 8.0, p<0.001) and platelet (0.0 vs 10.0, p<0.001) transfusions. Thirty-day survival was not significantly different between sBiVADs and pBiVADs (56.6% vs 36.8%, p = 0.341).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We consider pBiVAD a less invasive, viable bridge to transplant, durable left ventricular assist device, or recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thoralf M Sundt, Joseph C Cleveland, Cameron D Wright, Joseph A Dearani, Michael J Mack
{"title":"Supporting Professionalism: Introduction of 360 Degree Review to the Credentialing Process by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.","authors":"Thoralf M Sundt, Joseph C Cleveland, Cameron D Wright, Joseph A Dearani, Michael J Mack","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.03.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.03.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144152844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case of Selection, Not Superiority.","authors":"Alexandria L Soto, Matthew G Hartwig","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nicks, Manouguian, and Y-incision Aortic Annular Enlargement: Do All Roads Lead to Rome?","authors":"Alexander Makkinejad, Bo Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Didier F Loulmet, Ali Hage, Katherine G Phillips, Michael Dorsey, Les James, Joshua Scheinerman, Noritsugu Naito, Eugene A Grossi
{"title":"Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Modification During Robotic Mitral Valve Repair.","authors":"Didier F Loulmet, Ali Hage, Katherine G Phillips, Michael Dorsey, Les James, Joshua Scheinerman, Noritsugu Naito, Eugene A Grossi","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Earlier intervention for mitral valve (MV) regurgitation leads to smaller left ventricles (LV) and potentially increases the risk of post-operative systolic anterior motion (SAM). We performed left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) modification in patients with an increased risk of SAM.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From January 2019 to May 2024, 800 consecutive totally endoscopic robotic MV repairs (TERMVR) were performed. Based on pre-bypass TEE, post-operative SAM risk was graded as low(n=610,76.2%), moderate(n=144, 18%), or high(n=46, 5.8%). Patients with moderate or high risk of SAM were categorized as \"increased risk of SAM\". To prevent post-operative SAM, LVOT modification consisted in ventricular septal bulge(VSB) myectomy and/or septal myocardial trabeculations(SMT) resection. Operative notes, echocardiograms, and STS dataset were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean patient age was 63.8 years (range= 22-90); 45(5.6%) had prior cardiac surgery. Thirty-day mortality was 5(0.6%). A total of 190(23.8%) patients had an increased risk of SAM. LVOT modification was performed in the majority with increased risk of SAM (139/190, 73.2%) and in a minority with low risk of SAM (42/610,6.9%). In those undergoing LVOT modification(n=181), isolated VSB myectomy was performed in 140(77.3%), isolated SMT resection in 32(17.7%), and both in 9(5.0%). The anterior leaflet was never detached. One patient experienced transient SAM while on inotropes. There was no need for intraoperative MV repair revision for SAM.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Currently, a significant proportion of MV repairs are at elevated risk of post-operative SAM. In our TERMVR experience, LVOT modification was performed with minimal morbidity and prevented any subsequent MV repair revision for SAM.</p>","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}