Novel technique for patients with heart disease that avoids taking anticoagulants

Patients with heart disease can benefit from a novel technique that avoids having to take anticoagulants. It involves the use of an anatomically shaped valved conduit of the normal aortic root, sutured to an unsupported biological prosthesis. The technique avoids the possibility of reoperation within approximately 15 years. The technique with a biological prosthesis and … Read more

Outpatient Varicose Vein Surgery

How do varicose veins form? In the legs, there is a double venous system: the deep one, which carries the circulation bone, and the superficial one, which is constituted by the internal saphenous and the external saphenous with its branches. Varicose veins occur in the superficial venous system. The human being, when standing, has to … Read more

Heart Valve Surgery

The classic approach for the surgical treatment of valvular heart disease is through a median sternotomy, although current trends to reduce surgical aggression lead us to perform less invasive approaches. For example, to act on the aortic valve I usually use a partial sternotomy, through a 7-8 cm incision, instead of the 15-20 cm of … Read more

The new sutureless valves are the best solution for the elderly patient with aortic valve problems

Dr. Xavier Ruyra Baliarda is a specialist in cardiac surgery. Head of Service at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Barcelona and Head of the VidaalCor Cardiac Surgery Unit at C.M Teknon. His healthcare activity has focused especially on reparative heart valve surgery, transfusion-free surgery, minimally invasive surgery and new alternatives for the … Read more

General Information on Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiovascular surgery is the medical specialty that deals with the correction of abnormalities of the heart and blood vessels caused by disorders or pathologies of the cardiovascular system. Since these anomalies can originate and affect differently depending on the age of the patient, cardiovascular surgery in adults is generally distinguished from cardiovascular surgery in children. … Read more

Advances in Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Joseba Zuazo Meabe, Top Doctors cardiac surgeon, will talk to us about cardiac surgery. What new techniques have been developed in recent years in cardiac surgery? First of all, I would mention coronary surgery without the use of extracorporeal circulation, which has significantly reduced the complications inherent in coronary surgery, but above all, I … Read more