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The 2019 Annual Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) was held in Dublin, Ireland, June 9-12, 2019. On June 9-11, presentations from the meeting streamed live on CTSNet. Did you miss the livestream? Watch these sessions below, in the CTSNet YouTube channel, or on ESTS TV. Sunday, June 9 Postgraduate Symposium Master Cup Database and Quality…
Professor Jean-Marc Baste is a consultant surgeon in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Rouen University Hospital in France. Prof Baste earned his MD from Bordeaux Medical School in France, after which he trained in general surgery at Rouen University, then in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Rouen University and Bordeaux University. He completed a…
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Daniel Engelman of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, moderates a discussion on enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) for cardiac surgery. Dr Engelman, who is also the President of the ERAS Cardiac Society, is joined by Rakesh Arora of Saint Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg,…
Objectives Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with absent pulmonary valve syndrome and massively dilated pulmonary arteries may present with severe airway compression. Neonates who present with severe airway compression are difficult to manage and have a high mortality rate. The traditional approach of ventricular septal defect (VSD) closure and pulmonary artery plication is often insufficient to…
Figure 1. VP shunt in the left lower lobe of lung piercing left copula of diaphragm. A and B) PA and lateral chest x-ray. C and D) MSCT chest, pulmonary and tracheobronchial reconstruction windows. The ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is a commonly used treatment for hydrocephalus. Shunt malfunctions such as obstruction and disconnection are common; however, migration…
Redo isolated tricuspid repair following previous mitral valve replacement carries a high mortality and morbidity. The authors’ totally endoscopic technique avoids entirely heart dissection, thus minimizing surgical trauma and possibly reducing morbidity and mortality. The authors present a surgical repair performed for a 70-year-old man with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) who was heavily symptomatic in…
A 57-year-old woman, with a history of pericardiectomy 20 years before, reported progressive dyspnea and orthopnea. A chest computed tomography scan showed a large anterior diaphragmatic (Morgagni) hernia containing a loop of transverse colon and omentum producing mass effect on the right atrium and ventricle. Significant right ventricular outflow obstruction and a small loculated pericardial…
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) was held in New York, New York, from May 29 – June 1, 2019, and select presentations from the meeting streamed live on CTSNet. Did you miss part of the livestream? Watch these sessions below or in the CTSNet YouTube channel. Mastering the Indications…
Simon Messer, a specialist trainee registrar in cardiothoracic surgery and a researcher on heart donation after cardiac death (DCD) at the Royal Papworth Hospital in the UK, presents his center’s experience on DCD heart transplantation as means of increasing the donor pool and reducing the waiting times for heart transplant recipients. This lecture was presented…
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Marco Nardini speaks with Antonio Maria Calafiore of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They begin by highlighting the influence of the first heart transplant in inspiring Professor Calafiore to pursue cardiac surgery. They discuss Prof Calafiore’s innovating work in myocardial protection, his contributions to the…
This video demonstrates the laqueation of a giant aneurysm of the left atrial appendage using a left video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) approach. The patient was an asymptomatic 45-year-old woman with an unremarkable medical history, who was scheduled for percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation due to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. When she underwent routine computed tomography imaging, a giant…
The development of a gastrobronchial fistula is a relatively rare occurrence. The patient in this video underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer and a stomach pull-up operation was performed. A few weeks later, the patient experienced chest infection and pneumonia due to repeated aspiration. Further investigations including computed tomography, a contrast swallow study, and esophagogastroscopy confirmed…
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Daniel Engelman of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, moderates a discussion on enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) for cardiac surgery. Dr Engelman, who is also the President of the ERAS Cardiac Society, is joined by Rakesh Arora of Saint Boniface Hospital in…
This video demonstrates a robot-assisted upper left lobectomy as surgical treatment for a patient with a lung adenocarcinoma that had been previously submitted to immunotherapy. It was performed with the da Vinci Si platform with a 3-arm technique plus a 10 mm assistant port. In the right arm, the authors used the Marlyland bipolar forceps…
Disclosure This presentation describes the off-label use of the Centrimag™ Ventricular Assist Device (Abbott). Objectives Right ventricular (RV) failure is a life-threatening complication after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. Increasingly, temporary right ventricular assist devices (RVAD) are used to support postoperative right heart failure and cardiogenic shock. Typically, temporary RVAD placement is limited by…
The first stage of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) palliation typically occurs within the first week of life. There are three competing surgical strategies for this palliation: the Norwood procedure with modified Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt (innominate-artery-to-pulmonary-artery), the Norwood procedure with right-ventricle-to-pulmonary-artery (RV-to-PA, Sano) modification, and the hybrid procedure, which includes a stent across the ductus arteriosus…
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