Volkmar Falk

TL;DR: In a 70-year-old patient with severe aortic valve stenosis, preoperative standard imaging detected an unclear subannular cavity structure that was identified intraoperatively as a huge chronic abscess cavity and exclusion was carried out by pericardial patch plasty.

TL;DR: The study evaluated the evaluation of videoassisted minimally invasive mitral valve surgery using the port-access technique via a right lateral mini-thoracotomy in 75 patients with non-ischen cardiopulmonary bypass.

TL;DR: CfLVAD implantation is feasible in high-risk patients with CTrHF with or without prior chest radiation, and there was no significant difference in survival or right HF between patients withCTrHF and a matched control group.

TL;DR: Closure of the left main stem and left internal mammary artery-left anterior descending coronary artery bypass grafting were performed successfully with the heart beating.

TL;DR: In this paper , the safety and efficacy of standardised relocation of both papillary muscles (subannular repair) at 1-year follow-up (FU) at a prospective, multicentre registry that enrolled consecutive patients with ventricular secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR) undergoing standardised subannular mitral valve repair in combination with annuloplasty at five sites in Germany.