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CTSNet’s Guest Editor Marc W. Gerdisch, MD, discusses his series “Surgical Atrial Fibrillation – What We Must Do and What We Can Do” with contributors from this series. Dr. Gerdisch, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Heart Valve Center at Franciscan Health, invited six contributors to bring together cutting-edge videos designed to broaden our perspective…
Survey Title: Challenges Faced During ECMO Cannulation for Patients with COVID-19Institution: Seattle Children’s Hospital We conducted an anonymous survey to gain a broader understanding of the challenges faced by extracorporeal life support (ECLS) providers when initiating ECLS for patients with COVID-19. A total of 17 survey responses was collected from April to July of 2020.…
Mitral valve repair is the preferred surgical treatment for mitral regurgitation. Minimally invasive technique through right minithoracotomy is routinely performed for treating this pathology for complex repair too. Cardiac surgeons must increasingly pursue high-quality mitral valve repair, which ensures excellent long-term outcomes. In this video, the authors have collected some particular cases in which there was…
Welcome to the eleventh of twelve videos that compose the series “Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Technical Approaches” by Professor Tristan D. Yan. To learn more about the series and see the complete list of videos, click here. Surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma remains a challenging task. This video tutorial demonstrates the surgical anatomy along…
Both the AATS and the STS guidelines for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation made the highest-level recommendation for surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation be added and performed concomitantly with CABG or valve surgery (1,2). While over 60% of patients with mitral valve disease are surgically ablated, patients with non-mitral valve disease and atrial fibrillation are…
While several approaches for endoscopic surgical ablation have described, the current video will focus on the technical details of a beating heart, epicardial linear box isolation and related mapping. Briefly, a 3 ports right thoracoscopic approach is routinely adopted, then, following opening of the pericardial reflections, a dedicated guiding catheter allows for the advancement of…
The authors present an open Cox-Maze IV (CMPIV) procedure using bipolar radiofrequency (RF) and cryoablation devices(1). This procedure is performed on cardiopulmonary bypass via a median sternotomy due to significant aortic insufficiency. Our ablation technique for a minimally invasive approach differs slightly with respect to the type of ablation utilized for the lesions and has…
Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is defined as a sinus HR >100 bpm at rest (with a mean 24-hour HR > 90 bpm not due to primary causes) and is associated with distressing symptoms of palpitations, fatigue and exercise intolerance. Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a systemic disease, with postural tachycardia being one of several underlying…
Dr. James L. Cox is rightly credited for his pioneering methodical work developing a treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF): identifying the magnitude of the clinical problem, studying the mechanisms of AF in his laboratory, developing an operative solution in the animal model, then successfully introducing the operation into clinical practice in 1987. The operation became…
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. This hybrid event will take place on May 22-23, 2021. Click here for the full schedule of events. Click Here to…
This video demonstrates a novel non-atriotomy technique for performing the maze procedure in patients undergoing non mitral valve open heart surgery. It is estimated that only 15-25% of patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing either coronary artery bypass or aortic valve procedures receive a maze procedure(1). However, concomitant maze procedure is recommended by the Society of…
In this video, we have used a homemade chord loops for mitral valve repair. We believe that this system is flexible for the mitral surgeons as the number of loops can be controlled. Usually, we use the Chordex system made by On-X, but due the shortage of supplies we faced due the pandemic, we started…
Welcome to the tenth of twelve videos that compose the series “Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Technical Approaches” by Professor Tristan D. Yan. To learn more about the series and see the complete list of videos, click here. This series of video tutorials demonstrate how to perform VATS lobectomy in a safe and simple way, using…
For the CTSNet Guest Editor Series, “Surgical Atrial Fibrillation – What We Must Do and What We Can Do,” we asked Marc W. Gerdisch, MD, to bring together videos that broaden our perspective on atrial fibrillation. Learn more about Dr. Gerdisch by reading his Featured Profile interview. There are eight contributor videos in this series.…
The lessons learned from 8 years of experience using the Intuity Rapid Deployment valve is summarized. The first patient underwent resternotomy Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR) and concomitant Mitral and Tricuspid annuloplasty. This case demonstrates the expeditious implant of a 25mm Intuity Elite valve. A step-by-step description of the procedure is shown. The annular skirt was…
This is an 11-year-old boy with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and MYH-7 gene mutation. He has been on medical therapy with B-blockers but recently it was noticed progression of his symptoms especially during exertion. He experienced recurrent episodes of presyncope and chest pain while riding his bike. Transthoracic echocardiography showed severe septal hypertrophy with a thickness…
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