Stephanie Mick

Pulsatile biventricular assist device and an absent mitral valve.

CONCLUSIONS In cases of acute aortic dissection, the potential for a circumferential intimal tear needs to be considered because intimo-intimal intussusception, although rare, is a serious complication of aortic dissection. Coronary angiography may indicate complete coronary artery occlusion that may be due to the intussuscepting flap and will resolve once the aortic defect has been repaired. Intraoperative

Sewing needles embedded in the cardiac interventricular septum and chest wall.

A 61-year-old woman with a history of anxiety and depression, status post left mastectomy, and with resultant diminished sensation in her left chest wall presented with a 2-month history of left-sided chest pain and shortness of breath. Chest roentgenograms revealed the presence of thoracic foreign bodies consistent with sewing needles (Figure 1). Computed tomographic scanning with 3-dimensional reconstruction demonstrated the location of one the

How long will my repair last, doctor? Additional data on the durability of mitral valve repair

From the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosures: Dr Gillinov serves as a consultant to Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, St. JudeMedical, and Abbott, and receives research funding from Tendyne and St. JudeMedical. DrMick serves as a consultant to Medtronic. The other authors have nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication May 4, 2017; accepted for publication May 8, 2017; available ahead of print June 13, 2017. Address for reprints: Marc Gillinov, MD, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195 (E-mail: gillinom@ccf.org). J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2017;154:831 0022-5223/

Hemodynamic durability of transcatheter aortic valves using the updated Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 criteria

36.00 Copyright 2017 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.05.027 The mitral valve team: Stephanie Mick, MD, Jose Navia, MD, Marc Gillinov, MD, and Kenneth McCurry, MD Preoperative discussions between surgeons and patients before mitral valve surgery often include commentary on Central Message

TCT-306 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement with Extremely Large Annuli Greater Than 683 mm2 Using Edwards Sapien 3 Valve – A Multicenter Experience

We investigated the hemodynamic durability of the transcatheter aortic valves (TAVs) using the updated Valve Academic Research Consortium‐2 (VARC‐2) criteria.