Surgeons and Cardiologists: The Indispensable Team

Surgeons and cardiologists: the indispensable team.

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.

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...

Job matters: differences in risk assessment of percutaneous aortic valve replacement between cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.

BACKGROUND Percutaneous aortic valve replacement (PAVR) for aortic stenosis is an attractive alternative to operative valve replacement. Several devices are evaluated, but their efficacy and safety are critically discussed. An interdisciplinary approach with collaboration of cardiac surgeons and cardiologists is widely requested. We analyzed how cardiologists and cardiac surgeons assess the pos...

Markers for perioperative myocardial ischemia: what both interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons need to know.

All novel markers of myocardial ischemia (ischemia-modified albumin, choline, unbound free fatty acids) lack cardiac specificity. Therefore, for the specific detection of myocardial ischemia selective blood sampling from an inserted coronary sinus catheter is needed, which limits the applicability of these markers in most clinical routine settings. In addition, the superiority of these novel ma...