Volkmar Falk

TL;DR: The increased use of beating-heart surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass may lead to a lower prevalence of this complication and thus improve patient outcomes, as well as having a significant protective effect against postoperative delirium.

TL;DR: The epidemiological and microbiological features of this prolonged outbreak provided evidence for the airborne transmission of M. chimaera from contaminated heater-cooler unit water tanks to patients during open-heart surgery.

TL;DR: Current evidence suggests that mini-MVS maybe associated with decreased bleeding, blood product transfusion, atrial fibrillation, sternal wound infection, scar dissatisfaction, ventilation time, intensive care unit stay, hospital length of stay, and reduced time to return to normal activity, without detected adverse impact on long-term need for valvular reintervention and survival beyond 1 year.

TL;DR: Good results have been achieved in the initial 50 patients, especially when considering the overall high-risk profile of these patients, and transapical minimally invasive aortic valve implantation is feasible using an off-pump technique.

TL;DR: Minimal invasive MV repair, along with certain concomitant procedures, can be performed in the vast majority of patients with MR, and a large series demonstrates that these procedures can been performed with low perioperative complication rates and very good durability.