Better outcomes depend on surgeons joining cardiologists

Surgeons and cardiologists: the indispensable team.

Surgeons and interventional cardiologists in a collaborative environment.

he concept of an interventional cardiologist coming to elp or correct a surgical problem during or shortly after oronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) was first introduced n 1998 by Reifart et al. (1). In their original report, Reifart t al. (1) performed emergency angiography, and when easible, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in 55 atients with clinical ischemia within 24 h of CABG. Wi...

What Interventional Cardiologists Are Still Leaving to the Surgeons?

Nowadays, development of new technologies is still ongoing with the ultimate goal of maximizing treatment outcomes with less invasiveness and reduced procedural risk. This review is intended to update on when interventionalists need surgical support in common or emerging problems in congenital heart disease.

Outcomes of treatment for achalasia depend on manometric subtype.

BACKGROUND & AIMS Patients with achalasia are treated with either pneumatic dilation (PD) or laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM), which have comparable rates of success. We evaluated whether manometric subtype was associated with response to treatment in a large population of patients treated with either PD or LHM (the European achalasia trial). METHODS Esophageal pretreatment manometry data we...

The outcomes of pathway database computations depend on pathway ontology

Different biological notions of pathways are used in different pathway databases. Those pathway ontologies significantly impact pathway computations. Computational users of pathway databases will obtain different results depending on the pathway ontology used by the databases they employ, and different pathway ontologies are preferable for different end uses. We explore differences in pathway o...