Research Publications
Our primary focus at The Baird Institute is to encourage and fund research to improve the surgical outcomes and quality of life for patients facing heart or lung surgery. The funds we raise go directly to research that improves the surgical procedures associated with heart and lung surgery. Improvements can include less intrusive procedures as well as techniques that improve survival rates.
Below you will find a list of publications that our surgeons and research fellows have been involved in writing.
Incidence and outcomes of emergency intraprocedural surgical conversion during transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Insights from a large tertiary care centre
Objective: During a transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) procedure, intraprocedural complications that are manageable only by conversion to emergency open-heart surgery (E-OHS) occasionally occur. Contemporary data on the incidence and outcome of TAVI patients undergoing E-OHS are scarce. This study aimed to evaluate early and midterm outcomes following E-OHS of patients undergoing TAVI in a large…
Blood versus crystalloid cardioplegia during triple valve surgery: A single center experience
Background: The efficacy of different cardioplegia solutions on outcomes of complex cardiac operations such as triple valve surgery (TVS) is scarce. Here we compared the outcomes in TVS patients receiving either crystalloid (Bretschneider) or blood (Calafiore) cardioplegia. Methods: Screening of our institutional database with prospectively entered data identified 471 consecutive patients (mean age 70.3 ± 9.2 years;…
The Feasibility of Less-Invasive Bentall Surgery: A Real-World Analysis
Objective: Minimally invasive approaches are being used increasingly in cardiac surgery and applied in a wider range of operations, including complex aortic procedures. The aim of this study was to examine the safety and feasibility of a partial upper sternotomy approach for isolated elective aortic root replacement (a modified Bentall procedure). Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis…
Rationale of the PAPAartis trial
Surgical and interventional repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms improve survival significantly compared to the natural history of the disease. However, both strategies are associated with a substantial risk of spinal cord ischemia, which has been reported to occur-even in contemporary series by expert centers-in up to 12% of patients, depending on the extent of the…
Outcomes Following Initial Multicenter Experience with Robotic Aortic Valve Replacement: Defining a Path Forward
No abstract available
Outcomes after surgical revascularization in diabetic patients
Objectives: Patients with diabetes mellitus undergoing coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) have been repeatedly suggested to have worse clinical outcomes compared to patients without DM. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of diabetes mellitus on 1-year clinical outcomes after isolated CABG. Methods: The European DuraGraft registry included 1130 patients (44.6%) with and 1402 (55.4%)…
Left internal mammary grafts: No patency difference to the left anterior descending artery
No abstract available
Aortic arch redo surgery: early and mid-term outcomes in 120 patients
Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyse the indications, surgical extent and results of treatment, as well as determine the risk factors for adverse outcomes after redo arch surgery. Methods: Between January 1996 and December 2022, 120 patients underwent aortic arch reoperations after primary proximal aortic surgery. We retrospectively analysed perioperative data, as well as…
