Volkmar Falk

TL;DR: Compared to patients undergoing conventional surgery, MIDCAB patients suffer more pain in the first three postoperative days, probably as a result of the lateral thoracotomy, but from POD 4 onwards, MIDcAB patients are significantly better, experiencing less pain and showing better physical, activity, and sleeping conditions even three months after surgery.

TL;DR: Distal aortic reoperations in Marfan patients are more common among those presenting with type A dissection, and although technically challenging, such procedures can be performed with good short- and long-term results.

TL;DR: A paradigm to rationally design textures maximizing EC activities as a function of the applied stresses is defined, based on harnessing the adhesions established by ECs through fine-tuning of the vertical extend of the underlying surface nanotopography.

TL;DR: Redo mitral valve surgery can be performed safely using a minimally invasive approach in patients with a previous sternotomy, and the right lateral minithoracotomy offers excellent exposure, and thus, the risk for injury is reduced.

TL;DR: The technology of 3D-printing was used to develop a completely soft pneumatically driven total artificial heart from silicone elastomers and its performance was evaluated on a hybrid mock circulation under various physiological conditions.