[HSF] Cardiac Surgery Edition of the NEJM??

[Ben Bidstrup]

Oh !

>The impetus for this report was not surgery, but pharmacology. tea 
>----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Firstenberg 
><msfirst at gmail.com> To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com Sent: 
>Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:51:53 AM Subject: [HSF] Cardiac 
>Surgery Edition of the NEJM?? >From this week's NEJM: Maybe after 
>enough complaining about the OPCAB and the Aprotinin articles, 
>something interesting/useful: comments???? [image: graphic] Left 
>Ventricular Assist Device and Drug Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure 
><http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/355/18/1873> Fifteen 
>patients with severe heart failure underwent implantation of left 
>ventricular assist devices followed by a specific pharmacologic 
>regimen. Eleven patients had sufficient myocardial recovery to 
>permit explantation of the device, and eight of these patients were 
>alive and free of heart failure or transplantation more than 4 years 
>later.     with:   When the Failing, End-Stage Heart Is Not 
>End-Stage <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/355/18/1922> 
>[image: Perspective] [image: graphic] Public Report Cards - Cardiac 
>Surgery and Beyond 
><http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/355/18/1847> Cardiac 
>surgery - most notably, coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) - is 
>the longest-standing and most common focus of public report cards. 
>Cardiac surgeons might feel that they are being subjected to a 
>unique level of scrutiny, but Dr. Robert Steinbrook writes that the 
>attention goes with the territory. and looking deep into the 
>letters: Tracheal Replacement with Aortic Allografts 
><http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/355/18/1938> -michael 
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Ben Bidstrup FRACS FRCSEd FEBCTS
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon