Evelio Rodriguez

..Centers have expanded indications for robotic mitral valve repairs to include complex pathologic features. We studied our results after robotic mitral valve repair for anterior leaflet or bileaflet prolapse...

..Nonetheless, its use continues to grow in all surgical fields. Our center has been a pioneer in the use and training of robotic surgical techniques. In this manuscript, we describe the organization and experience of our training program...

..We perform the first robotic MV repair in the United States in the year 2000. This article reviews our 6 year experience and current technique of robotic MV repair as well as future trends in the field...

..This reconstructive technique can be applied in traditional mitral valve repairs but is suited particularly to the robotic approach, in which enhanced visualization and dexterity make the "haircut" repair easy to perform...

..We previously reported our early experience with minimally invasive right thoracotomy and peripheral cannulation as an alternative strategy, and we recently reviewed our cumulative 15-year hospital outcomes with this approach...

..Robotic mitral valve repair provides the least-invasive surgical approach. We report the largest single-center robotic mitral valve repair experience...

..To review a 2-institution experience with minimally invasive mitral valve surgery over a 12-year period...

..To outline current techniques in robotic cardiac surgery and to report the recent results...

..At reoperation a dense inflammatory process was encountered on the epicardial surface of the heart with minimal pericardial thickening. Crosshatching of the epicardial scar tissue produced an immediate and durable clinical response...

..We have previously reported our initial 300 isolated RMVPs. Our current study evaluates our consecutive RMVP series, including patients undergoing concomitant atrial fibrillation (AF) cryoablation...

..The case is reported of a left ventricle-to-right atrial fistula following mechanical AVR for aortic insufficiency...

..Surgery with videoscopic assistance can be effectively performed without sternotomy. Robotics systems are gaining wider adoption. Implantable devices to repair or replace the mitral valve off-pump and percutaneously are emerging...

..We describe the hematologic management of a patient with hemophilia A who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery...

..In this rapidly evolving field, we review the clinical results of robotic cardiac surgery...

..In addition, they lend further support to the notion that mitochondria represent a viable target for future therapies directed at ameliorating heart failure and other comorbidities that come with diabetes...

..The purpose of this review is to assess the current state of robotics in coronary revascularization and to consider what advances may be forthcoming...

..We describe such a case that highlights the importance of a broad differential diagnosis when treating acutely injured patients...

..Repair failures have been attributed to the challenging technology and potentially to the use of annuloplasty band anchoring U-clips. The purpose of this study was to characterize causes of robotic MV repair failure...

..Robotic-assisted cryosurgical atrioventricular node ablation is an effective, minimally invasive treatment for patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia...

..We undertook this study to evaluate outcomes in this cohort...

..Typically, this is treated in infancy secondary to symptoms. We describe the treatment of an asymptomatic adult male that was diagnosed with double aortic arch during cardiac catheterization...

..We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the pericardium diagnosed after coronary bypass surgery without any primary tumor. The only significant history is the removal of multiple "skin cancers" in the past...

..SPY technology allows the surgeon to accurately assess graft patency intraoperatively and allows immediate correction of a technical problem...

..The aim of this study was to determine the impact of diabetes on oxidant balance and mitochondrial metabolism of carbohydrate- and lipid-based substrates in myocardium of type 2 diabetic patients...

..We hypothesized that insertion of Melody valves into the proximal right and left branch pulmonary arteries (PAs) would reduce pulmonary regurgitation fraction (PRF) in an ovine model of pulmonary insufficiency and dilated RVOT...

..AF is a curable condition, using a combination of catheter-based and surgical approaches. Newer surgical ablation devices allow minimally invasive approaches...

..The modified inferior vena caval anastomosis is simple and safe. It eliminates moderate and severe tricuspid valve regurgitation without routine annuloplasty after orthotopic heart transplantation via the bicaval technique...

..One attractive aspect of this adjuvant treatment is that PDT, as opposed to some of the other adjuvant treatments combined with surgery, may offer the option of effecting adequate tumor debulking with a pulmonary-sparing procedure...