Heart Valves

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2020 ACC/AHA guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. 
  • A Multicenter Pilot Study Assessing Regional Cerebral Oxygen Desaturation Frequency During Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Responsiveness to an Intervention Algorithm. 
  • ASE/SCA guidelines for performing a comprehensive intraoperative multiplane transesophageal echocardiography examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography Council for Intraoperative Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Task Force for Certification in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. 
  • Adult congenital heart disease: right ventricular outflow tract lesions. 
  • An Approach to Improve the Negative Predictive Value and Clinical Utility of Transthoracic Echocardiography in Suspected Native Valve Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Antithrombotic therapy after prosthetic cardiac valve implantation: improving postoperative, long-term patient management. Introduction. 
  • Anxiety predicts mortality and morbidity after coronary artery and valve surgery--a 4-year follow-up study. 
  • Application of hydrogels in heart valve tissue engineering. 
  • Aprotinin in primary valve replacement and reconstruction: a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Arterial hyperoxia during cardiopulmonary bypass and postoperative cognitive dysfunction. 
  • Association between surgical indications, operative risk, and clinical outcome in infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Association between valvular surgery and mortality among patients with infective endocarditis complicated by heart failure. 
  • Can "earlier biomarkers" help early biomarkers predict acute kidney injury? 
  • Cardiac considerations in the triathlete. 
  • Clinical utility of cardiac valve Gram stain and culture in patients undergoing native valve replacement. 
  • Cost-benefit and efficacy of aprotinin compared with epsilon-aminocaproic acid in patients having repeated cardiac operations: a randomized, blinded clinical trial. 
  • Early predictors of in-hospital death in infective endocarditis. 
  • Early surgery in patients with infective endocarditis: a propensity score analysis. 
  • Effect of fenfluramine-derivative diet pills on cardiac valves: a meta-analysis of observational studies. 
  • Efficacy and safety of apixaban vs warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation and prior bioprosthetic valve replacement or valve repair: Insights from the ARISTOTLE trial. 
  • Efficacy and safety of low intensity vitamin K antagonists in Western and East-Asian patients with left-sided mechanical heart valves. 
  • Elimination of predilection sites for thrombus formation in the total artificial heart--before and after. 
  • Endocarditis in a dog due to infection with a novel Bartonella subspecies. 
  • Enterococcal prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: report of 45 episodes from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-merged database. 
  • Flexural characterization of cell encapsulated PEGDA hydrogels with applications for tissue engineered heart valves. 
  • Hyaluronan Hydrogels for a Biomimetic Spongiosa Layer of Tissue Engineered Heart Valve Scaffolds. 
  • Impact of early valve surgery on outcome of Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: analysis in the International Collaboration of Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Ineffectiveness of burst suppression therapy in mitigating perioperative cerebrovascular dysfunction. Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia (McSPI) Research Group. 
  • Infective endocarditis. 
  • Integrating valve-inspired design features into poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel scaffolds for heart valve tissue engineering. 
  • Low operative mortality with implantation of a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device and impact of concurrent cardiac procedures. 
  • Maintenance of therapeutic plasma aprotinin levels during prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass using a large-dose regimen. 
  • Maternal valvular heart disease in pregnancy. 
  • Molecular epidemiologic evaluation of endocarditis due to Oerskovia turbata and CDC group A-3 associated with contaminated homograft valves. 
  • Oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: current status, special situations, and unmet needs. 
  • Oral antithrombotic agents for the prevention of stroke in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a science advisory for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Perioperative blood pressure control: a prospective survey of patient management in cardiac surgery. 
  • Pharmacologic electroencephalographic suppression during cardiopulmonary bypass: a comparison of thiopental and isoflurane. 
  • Postoperative and Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation-Not So Different After All. 
  • Predictors of operative time in multicenter port-access valve registry: institutional differences in learning. 
  • Pulmonary Heart Valves: Redefining Outcomes. 
  • Risk for valvular heart disease among users of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine who underwent echocardiography before use of medication. 
  • Risk index for predicting in-hospital mortality for cardiac valve surgery. 
  • Spontaneous and induced alterations in the cardiac membranous ventricular septum of fetal, weanling, and adult rats. 
  • Statins--is there potential for uncovering new benefits (or detriments)? 
  • Task Force on Strategic Research Direction: Basic Science Subgroup key science topics report. 
  • The "ideal" replacement heart valve. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2021 Adult Cardiac Surgery Risk Models for Multiple Valve Operations. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2018 Update on Research: Outcomes Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety. 
  • The baby and the bathwater: is Ouabain's biomarker value lost without evidence of a causal role in acute kidney injury? 
  • The utility of transesophageal echocardiography and Doppler color flow imaging in patients undergoing cardiac valve surgery. 
  • Trends in Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis and Heart Valve Surgery, 2007 to 2017: A Study of Statewide Discharge Data. 
  • Unreliability of hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular size during cardiac surgery. 
  • Use of common antiplatelet drugs for vascular diseases. 
  • Usefulness of Myocardial Annular Velocity Change During Mental Stress to Predict Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease (From the Responses of Mental Stress-Induced Myocardial Ischemia to Escitalopram Treatment Trial). 
  • Valve resection for endocarditis. 
  • epsilon-Aminocaproic acid plasma levels during cardiopulmonary bypass. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery