Relationship of surgeon experience and outcomes of surgery for degenerative mitral valve disease
Yousef S, Singh S, Mullan CW, Dey P, Mori M, Brooks C, Bin Mahmood SU, Hashim S, Vallabhajosyula P, Geirsson A. Relationship of surgeon experience and outcomes of surgery for degenerative mitral valve disease. Journal Of Cardiac Surgery 2021, 36: 2621-2627. PMID: 33896034, DOI: 10.1111/jocs.15583.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDegenerative mitral valve diseaseMitral valve diseaseValve diseaseSurgeon experienceExperienced surgeonsShorter cross-clamp timeCox proportional hazards methodCross-clamp timeWorse comorbidity profileIndependent risk factorMitral valve surgeryOutcome of surgeryKaplan-Meier curvesMitral regurgitation recurrenceProportional hazards methodsOperations/yearValve surgeryEmergent operationMeier curvesPatient characteristicsRegurgitation recurrenceComorbidity profilesRisk factorsSevere MRHazards methodsVariants of the aortic arch in adult general population and their association with thoracic aortic aneurysm disease
Yousef S, Singh S, Alkukhun A, Alturkmani B, Mori M, Chen J, Mullan CW, Brooks CW, Assi R, Gruber PJ, Cortopassi I, Geirsson A, Vallabhajosyula P. Variants of the aortic arch in adult general population and their association with thoracic aortic aneurysm disease. Journal Of Cardiac Surgery 2021, 36: 2348-2354. PMID: 33855754, DOI: 10.1111/jocs.15563.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAortic arch anomaliesArch anomaliesAneurysm diseaseBovine archAberrant right subclavian arteryAdult populationThoracic aortic aneurysm diseasePrevalence of TAAsRight-sided archRight subclavian arteryCharacteristics of patientsIndependent risk factorAortic valve pathologyAdult general populationGeneral adult populationAortic aneurysm diseaseLogistic regression analysisSingle health systemFisher's exact testOlder adult populationBinary logistic regressionThoracic aortopathiesSubclavian arteryCommon diagnosisThoracic aneurysm