On 8 September 2020, Tal Golesworthy and Duke Cameron, MD presented a PEARS project update at The Marfan Foundation’s E-Summit.
You can watch the presentation below or on YouTube.
On 8 September 2020, Tal Golesworthy and Duke Cameron, MD presented a PEARS project update at The Marfan Foundation’s E-Summit.
You can watch the presentation below or on YouTube.
The Brisbane-based Courier-Mail carries a three page article describing how a patient with Marfan syndrome became the first to undergo repair to her dilated aortic root during pregnancy. The ability to perform PEARS surgery without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass reduced the risk to her unborn child. Five months later the patient gave birth to her healthy daughter.
The July issue of the British Journal of Cardiology carries a report on a multicentre study of 117 consecutive patients who received ExoVasc mesh implants for aortic root aneurysm from 2004 to 2017. The report concludes that the operation achieves the objectives of valve-sparing root replacement, and it is seen as a low-risk conservative operation which is complementary to more invasive procedures, such as valve sparing root replacement or total root replacement.
The paper may be viewed on-line at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5837/bjc.2020.022