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Five experts made presentations on topics including the future of non-surgical management of coronary disease, the future of coronary surgery research, new coronary guidelines, and more.
November 12, 2019
Dr Om P Yadava and Dr Carlos Mestres discuss mitral annular calcification.
November 7, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 EACTS Annual Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, Jill Ley of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco moderates a discussion on pain management strategies that include reduced or no opioid use.
November 6, 2019
The author describes a single surgeon, single institution experience using a SuperCable® in sternotomy closure, which was found effective and reliable, and can potentially reduce sternum dehiscence risk.
November 5, 2019
The authors present a totally endoscopic bileaflet mitral valve repair case where they used a transesophageal echo technique to predetermine the optimal length of the synthetic chordae for the repair.
October 30, 2019
Abdelhadi Ismail and his co-authors of the Southampton University Hospitals Trust in the United Kingdom present a discussion on cardiac physiology, structure, and function.
October 29, 2019
In this intraoperative video, the authors demonstrate the principles of the BASILICA technique in an instance where redo-surgical aortic valve replacement was the appropriate management strategy.
October 23, 2019
This video demonstrates a patch augmentation of the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve.
October 22, 2019
Abdelhadi Ismail and his co-authors of the Southampton University Hospitals Trust in the United Kingdom presents a discussion on cardiac biochemistry from a clinical perspective.
October 20, 2019
In this video, the authors demonstrate off-pump coronary artery bypass with the bilateral internal thoracic artery for left main disease.
October 17, 2019
Filmed at the STS Structural Heart Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, David Fullerton moderates a discussion on surgical training for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.