Shout Outs
Congratulations to Dr. Ashish Shah, Dr. Malek Kass and Dr. Nasir Shaikh. This week they performed their first trans-catheter paravalvular leak closure. They hope to provide this structural interventional servicer to many more patients in Manitoba.
Publications by our Faculty this Week
Cloutier JM, Khoo C, Hiebert B, Wassef A, Seifer CM. Physician decision making in anticoagulating atrial fibrillation: a prospective survey of a physician notification system for atrial fibrillation detected on cardiac implantable electronic devices of patients at increased risk of stroke. Ther Adv Cardiovasc Dis. 2018 Apr;12(4):113-122. doi: 10.1177/1753944717749739.
Mazer CD, Whitlock RP, Fergusson DA, Belley-Cote E, Connolly K, Khanykin B, Gregory AJ, de Médicis É, Carrier FM, McGuinness S, Young PJ, Byrne K, Villar JC, Royse A, Grocott HP, Seeberger MD, Mehta C, Lellouche F, Hare GMT, Painter TW, Fremes S, Syed S, Bagshaw SM, Hwang NC, Royse C, Hall J, Dai D, Mistry N, Thorpe K, Verma S, Jüni P, Shehata N; TRICS Investigators and Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group. Six-Month Outcomes after Restrictive or Liberal Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery. N Engl J Med. 2018 Aug 26. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1808561. [Epub ahead of print]
Zelenitsky SA, Calic D, Arora RC, Grocott HP, Lakowski TM, Lillico R, Ariano RE. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: Intraoperative Cefazolin Concentrations and Sternal Wound Infections. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Aug 27. pii: AAC.01360-18. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01360-18. [Epub ahead of print]
Muller Moran HR, Kass M, Ravandi A, Zieroth S, Schaffer SA, Cordova FJ, Pozeg ZI, Arora RC, Singal RK. Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Assist Device Outflow Graft Obstruction Using Intravascular Ultrasound. Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Dec;9(12). pii: e003472. No abstract available.]
