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This video demonstrates a frozen elephant trunk procedure with differential temperature control to the head and the body, with the body at 34 °C and the head at 20 °C.
May 21, 2021
It has been shown that the Cox maze procedure is safe and effective with comparable outcomes when performed concomitant to mitral valve or non-mitral valve surgery.
May 20, 2021
This video will present a novel way to perform totally endoscopic, epicardial beating heart surgical ablation along with advanced epi-endocardial mapping in a hybrid setting.
May 19, 2021
This video demonstrates the Cox-Maze IV procedure for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation via median sternotomy.
May 18, 2021
We describe a combined single-step electrophysiological (EP) and surgical approach, where the endocardial part primarily maps the sinoatrial node and the area of earliest activation and the epicardial part primarily performs the sinus node sparing ablation of the venae cavae and crista terminalis.
May 18, 2021
The development and evolution of the Cox Maze procedure is discussed by Patrick McCarthy, MD.
May 15, 2021
The Transcatheter Heart Valve Greece 2021 conference will be livestreamed on CTSNet's YouTube channel and on this page! The THV Greece conference is the leading transcatheter valve therapies annual conference in Greece since 2011.
May 14, 2021
This video demonstrates a novel non-atriotomy epicardial approach to the maze procedure with intraoperative testing.
May 13, 2021
Using home-made loops for mitral valve repair is demonstrated in this video.
May 12, 2021
This video demonstrates a VATS left lower lobe lobectomy procedure, using the fissure last approach in a patient who had pulmonary sequestration with inflammatory lymph nodes in the hilum.
May 10, 2021
Septal myectomy for an 11-year-old boy with symptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.