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The patient was a 23-month-old, 8.6 kg girl with complex congenital heart disease consisting of dextro-mesocardic position, double outlet right ventricle, subaortic ventricular septal defect, pulmonary atresia, atrioventricular discordance, and left atrial isomerism. In addition, she had left superior vena cava connecting to right innominate vein, a midline inferior vena cava, and right aortic arch…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational content in 2019. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Mark Ferguson presents his choices, in no particular order, for the most interesting CTSNet content of 2019. Pictured: Subxiphoid Uniportal Nonintubated Thymectomy The Evolution of Cardiac SurgeryShruti Jayakumar, John McKenna, Martin Elliott Advances in Arterial CABGPatrick Myers, Michael Mack, John Puskas, Mario Gaudino…
Altmetric data “badges” are appended to new educational videos and articles published on CTSNet.org. Altmetric tracks the online impact of CTSNet videos and articles, including related social media activity, blog mentions, and other references on a broad variety of web platforms. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five highest…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2019. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five most popular pieces of congenital content published during 2019. Pictured: “Adult Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis: Modified Three-Patch Aortic Root Reconstruction” Adult Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis: Modified Three-Patch Aortic Root ReconstructionDerek Brinster, Jonathan Hemli…
Case A 78-year-old woman with a history of rheumatoid arthritis consulted for progressive dyspnea of two months of evolution, associated with asthenia. Figure 1. Coronal section of computed tomography, where heterogeneous lesion with cystic area is observed, which displaces the mediastinum, collapses the lung, and flattens the diaphragm. The physical examination showed the abolition of vesicular…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2019. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five most popular roundtable discussions published during 2019. Pictured: Participants from the “Goodbye Sternal Precautions, Hello Move in the Tube?” Roundtable Implications of Low-Risk TAVR on the Future of Cardiothoracic SurgeryTom C.…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2019. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five most popular pieces of thoracic content published during 2019. Pictured: “Mastering Bronchoscopy for Thoracic Surgery” Mastering Bronchoscopy for Thoracic SurgeryKhalid Amer Surgical Treatment of Phrenic Nerve InjuryMatthew Kaufman, Thomas Bauer When…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2019. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five most popular pieces of cardiac content published during 2019. Pictured: “Subxiphoid Pericardial Window: Steps and Helpful Tips” Subxiphoid Pericardial Window: Steps and Helpful TipsDaniel Gwan-Nulla Mitral Valve Repair: Five Techniques for…
Filmed at the 2019 EACTS Annual Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, Jill Ley of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California, moderates a discussion on cardiac surgery missions. She is joined by Enoch F. Akowuah of South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust in the United Kingdom and Percy Boateng of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. They…
Catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is defined as a spontaneous pneumothorax occurring in women of reproductive age during the perimenstrual period. This period generally includes the day before to three days after the onset of menstruation, with some authors extending this time frame until 5-7 days after. Catamenial pneumothorax is the most frequent manifestation of thoracic endometriosis,…
Background The intervalvular fibrous body (IFB) is a structure between medial and lateral trigone that connects the aortic and mitral valves. From the atrial side, the dome of the left atrium is also an important part because it separates the anterior mitral valve from the aortic root. The fibrous body is mainly involved due to…
The patient was a 10-year-old, 26.7 kg, girl with dilated cardiomyopathy. The patient had a familial history and was admitted to an outside hospital in decompensated heart failure. She had complaints for two days of severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, and was tolerating minimal PO intake. She was tachycardic with waxing and waning perfusion…
Joseph Shrager of Stanford University School of Medicine in California presents a discussion on the criteria to follow when removing pulmonary nodules and ground glass opacities. He discusses three major questions: when to resect, what type of resection to perform, and what technique to use for single, small ground glass or part-solid/lepidic adenocarcinoma. This presentation…
In this video, Joel Dunning of James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, interviews Nikki Stamp, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Perth, Australia. She presented a television program in Australia which showed live surgery, and she has authored two books: Can You Die of a Broken Heart? and Pretty Unhealthy. She has over 16,000 Twitter…
Postmyocardial infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a life-threatening complication. It is usually considered an emergency that is traditionally treated with a surgical closure. The mortality of surgical repair in the acute phase can be as high as 70%. This high mortality rate is reduced to 25% if the surgical closure is delayed for a…
The authors present a combined open and endovascular approach to a descending aortic pseudoaneurysm with iatrogenic coarctation. A 64-year-old man was found to have a pseudoaneurysm associated with coarctation at the anastomosis of a previous descending thoracic aortic coarctation repair. An endograft alone would not achieve an adequate seal in zone 2 and risked a…
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