Olivera Rasovic

Endoscopic Combined Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery: Feasibility and Mid-term Outcomes

Giovanni Domenico Cresce, Daniele Zoni, Valentina Grazioli, Ilaria Tropea et autres

OBJECTIVES: Endoscopic surgery has emerged as an evolution of minimally invasive approaches, but evidence regarding its application in combined valve procedures remains scarce. This study evaluates its feasibility and mid-term outcomes in concomitant aortic and mitral valve (MV) surgery. METHODS: We retrospectively …

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Pushing the Boundaries in Totally Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery: Combined Triple Valve Surgery and Ascending Aorta Replacement

Loris Salvador, Luciana Benvegnù, Daniele Zoni, Tommaso Hinna Danesi et autres

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Endoscopic Approach for Aortic Valve Replacement: Operative Results

Giovanni Domenico Cresce, Tommaso Hinna Danesi, Massimo Sella, Olivera Rasovic et autres

Objective: To describe our endoscopic aortic valve replacement (E-AVR) technique and to evaluate its operative results regardless of the type of prosthetic valve implanted in unselected patients. Methods: From July 2013 to June 2018, 158 consecutive patients (87 males, mean age 68.7±11.5 …

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Surgery of the Ascending Aorta with or without Combined Procedures through an Upper Ministernotomy: Outcomes of a Series of More Than 100 Patients

Salvatore Lentini, Luigi Specchia, Salvatore Nicolardi, Federica Mangia et autres

BACKGROUND: Use of a minimally invasive approach for isolated aortic valve surgery is increasing. However, management of the root and/or ascending aorta through a mini-invasive incision is not so frequent. The aim of this study is to report our initial experience with …

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Does EuroSCORE II perform better than its original versions? A multicentre validation study

Fabio Barili, Davide Pacini, Alessandra Capo, Olivera Rasovic et autres

AIMS: The European system for cardiac operation risk evaluation (EuroSCORE) is widely used for predicting in-hospital mortality after cardiac surgery. A new score (EuroSCORE II) has been recently developed to update the previously released versions. This study was undertaken to validate EuroSCORE …

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Aortic valve-sparing operations

Davide Pacini, Francesco Dimitri Petridis, Olivera Rasovic, Roberto Di Bartolomeo

Ascending aortic aneurysms involving the aortic root are usually treated with replacement of the ascending aorta and the aortic valve using a composite valved conduit. However, the aortic valve is usually normal and the dysfunction is due to an impairment of the …

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A challenging case of acute aortic dissection

Davide Pacini, Luca Di Marco, Olivera Rasovic, Roberto Di Bartolomeo

Incidence, etiology, histological findings and course of thoracic inflammatory aortopathies

Simone Turci, Davide Pacini, Ornella Leone, Lucio Careddu et autres