Heinz Jakob

TL;DR: Routinely used serum markers for MESI can help identify patients with gastrointestinal complications after cardiac surgery early, and might be useful for the evaluation of new therapeutic or preventive strategies.

TL;DR: Patients presented with severe aortic valve disease after a prior cardiac surgery exhibited a higher preoperative STS and EuroSCORE than those without previous cardiac surgery, which should be considered as an attractive alternative for those patients.

TL;DR: A modified higher “aortic” implantation of the Sapien3™ THV holds promise to further reduce paravalvular leakage as well as permanent pacemaker implantation in TAVI.

TL;DR: The SF test should be used in addition to BC only for rapid etiologic diagnosis of BSI in patients after cardiothoracic surgery, due to the low performance in detecting Gram-positive pathogens and the inability to determine antibiotic susceptibility.

TL;DR: Evaluated the combination of TTFM and HF-US in CABG surgery and observed a correlation of PI and flow with maximum postoperative troponin-I levels, which was directly correlated to mean graft flow and PI levels.