Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies
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Aortic valve and aortic diseases: update on current treatment options Daniel Wendt & Arie-Pieter Kappetein To cite this article: Daniel Wendt & Arie-Pieter Kappetein (2015) Aortic valve and aortic diseases: update on current treatment options, Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies, 24:5, 253-254, DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2015.1047853 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13645706.2015.1047853
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Aortic valve and aortic diseases: update on current treatment options DANIEL WENDT1 & ARIE-PIETER KAPPETEIN2 1
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, and 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
It is a real pleasure to be the guest editor of this special issue of Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies. Moreover, it is a special honour that Dr Kappetein, secretary general of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), has agreed to join me for this editorial. During the first 25 years of iSMIT, cardiology and cardiac surgery were somewhat underrepresented in this open-minded and innovative society. Most minimally invasive procedures and new concepts came from the field of laparoscopy. This was also driven by the fact that for decades, cardiac surgery had not adopted minimally invasive principles of surgery, which was completely different in abdominal and general surgery. Over the last 15 years, however, minimally invasive therapies and concepts have slowly been incorporated also in the cardiovascular field. Stent technologies have evolved, port-access surgery or percutaneous mitral valve repair has emerged, and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting has been investigated, but the most important and groundbreaking technology was established by the introduction of off-pump transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for aortic stenosis. Since the first TAVI procedure in 2002, more than 100,000 transcatheter aortic valve implantations have been performed worldwide. Moreover, this technology has brought cardiologists and cardiac surgeons closer together and the concept of ºheart-teams“ has been inaugurated, focusing on determining the right treatment for each patient, which definitively benefits the care of the individual patient. Not only heart valves can now be
treated by minimally invasive procedures. Also new techniques and devices to treat aortic disease have been introduced into clinical practice. These techniques promise to further reduce mortality and morbidity in acute aortic syndromes. Meanwhile, it has almost become a tradition in the international Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (iSMIT) to focus on cardiovascular and cardiac procedures by publishing a special edition of MITAT on a two-year basis. Of note, this year the annual SMIT conference will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, and for the first time a cardiologist will be the congress president. In Brno, we will be updated on ground-breaking and pioneering concepts in the field of cardiac surgery and cardiology. Such interaction will definitively help to develop a mutually supportive relationship between different specialities. In this special issue we want to focus primarily on diseases of the aortic valve and aorta. Therefore, we have invited worldwide leaders in the field, to cover all aspects of modern cardiac surgery and cardiology dealing with these diseases. Dr Martin Czerny as one of the leaders in the vascular domain of EACTS agreed to present a review on TEVAR and Dr Tsagakis and Dr Heinz Jakob present their latest results in re-routing of the left subclavian artery in the frozen elephant trunk technique. Well-known cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, such as Dr Bernard Prendergast, and Dr Thomas Walther also agreed to give an update of current TAVI practice. Of course, not all aspects can be covered within this special issue, but we are quite confident that with
Correspondence: D. Wendt, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Hufelandstraße 55, D-45122 Essen, Germany. Fax: +49 201 723 6817. E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1364-5706 print/ISSN 1365-2931 online Ó 2015 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2015.1047853
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these outstanding contributions, the reader will be updated on current state-of-the-art techniques in the field of aortic valve and aortic surgery.
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
ISSN: 1364-5706 (Print) 1365-2931 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/imit20
Aortic valve and aortic diseases: update on current treatment options Daniel Wendt & Arie-Pieter Kappetein To cite this article: Daniel Wendt & Arie-Pieter Kappetein (2015) Aortic valve and aortic diseases: update on current treatment options, Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies, 24:5, 253-254, DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2015.1047853 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13645706.2015.1047853
Published online: 13 May 2015.
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Date: 19 September 2015, At: 00:44
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Aortic valve and aortic diseases: update on current treatment options DANIEL WENDT1 & ARIE-PIETER KAPPETEIN2 1
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, and 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
It is a real pleasure to be the guest editor of this special issue of Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies. Moreover, it is a special honour that Dr Kappetein, secretary general of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), has agreed to join me for this editorial. During the first 25 years of iSMIT, cardiology and cardiac surgery were somewhat underrepresented in this open-minded and innovative society. Most minimally invasive procedures and new concepts came from the field of laparoscopy. This was also driven by the fact that for decades, cardiac surgery had not adopted minimally invasive principles of surgery, which was completely different in abdominal and general surgery. Over the last 15 years, however, minimally invasive therapies and concepts have slowly been incorporated also in the cardiovascular field. Stent technologies have evolved, port-access surgery or percutaneous mitral valve repair has emerged, and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting has been investigated, but the most important and groundbreaking technology was established by the introduction of off-pump transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for aortic stenosis. Since the first TAVI procedure in 2002, more than 100,000 transcatheter aortic valve implantations have been performed worldwide. Moreover, this technology has brought cardiologists and cardiac surgeons closer together and the concept of ºheart-teams“ has been inaugurated, focusing on determining the right treatment for each patient, which definitively benefits the care of the individual patient. Not only heart valves can now be
treated by minimally invasive procedures. Also new techniques and devices to treat aortic disease have been introduced into clinical practice. These techniques promise to further reduce mortality and morbidity in acute aortic syndromes. Meanwhile, it has almost become a tradition in the international Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (iSMIT) to focus on cardiovascular and cardiac procedures by publishing a special edition of MITAT on a two-year basis. Of note, this year the annual SMIT conference will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, and for the first time a cardiologist will be the congress president. In Brno, we will be updated on ground-breaking and pioneering concepts in the field of cardiac surgery and cardiology. Such interaction will definitively help to develop a mutually supportive relationship between different specialities. In this special issue we want to focus primarily on diseases of the aortic valve and aorta. Therefore, we have invited worldwide leaders in the field, to cover all aspects of modern cardiac surgery and cardiology dealing with these diseases. Dr Martin Czerny as one of the leaders in the vascular domain of EACTS agreed to present a review on TEVAR and Dr Tsagakis and Dr Heinz Jakob present their latest results in re-routing of the left subclavian artery in the frozen elephant trunk technique. Well-known cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, such as Dr Bernard Prendergast, and Dr Thomas Walther also agreed to give an update of current TAVI practice. Of course, not all aspects can be covered within this special issue, but we are quite confident that with
Correspondence: D. Wendt, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Hufelandstraße 55, D-45122 Essen, Germany. Fax: +49 201 723 6817. E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1364-5706 print/ISSN 1365-2931 online Ó 2015 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2015.1047853
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these outstanding contributions, the reader will be updated on current state-of-the-art techniques in the field of aortic valve and aortic surgery.
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
