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Figure 1. Pre-extraction chest x-ray. A 2-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department with dyspnea and subcutaneous emphysema over the chest, back, and face. On talking to the parents, they gave a history suggestive of foreign body inhalation consisting mostly of chickpeas. Examination revealed the presence of subcutaneous emphysema and decreased air entry on…
Mr Abdelhadi Ismail of the Southampton University Hospitals Trust in the UK presents an educational series on myocardial protection, the first topic in the Southampton Reviews in Cardiothoracic Surgery. He discusses the history of myocardial protection and perfusion, presents some of the fundamental concepts underlying myocardial protection, and reviews techniques. Introduction: Myocardial Protection and Perfusion Myocardial…
Mr Sunil Ohri of the Southampton University Hospital Trust in the UK introduces the Southampton Reviews in Cardiothoracic Surgery Series. In this series of online lectures, the authors will cover many aspects of adult, pediatric, cardiac, and thoracic surgery. The aim of this series is to provide a comprehensive and accessible learning aid for cardiothoracic…
Introduction Hemitruncus is an extremely uncommon anomaly, accounting for 0.1% of all congenital heart diseases (1). This defect is defined by the anomalous origin of one pulmonary artery, most commonly the right branch, from the ascending aorta. The first description of this disease was made by Fraentzel in 1868 (2). The lung that is normally connected receives…
Dr Tsuyoshi Kaneko is a cardiac surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr Kaneko received his MD from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan, where he also trained in both general and cardiac surgery residencies. Following this, he moved to…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational content in 2018. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Mark Ferguson presents his choices for the most interesting CTSNet content of 2018. Leaflet Reconstructive Techniques for Aortic Valve RepairDomenico Mazzitelli, Theodor Fischlein, J. Scott Rankin, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Christof Stamm, Steffen Pfeiffer, Lawrence Wei, Vinay Badhwar Bilateral Lung TransplantOrlando Petrucci, Rachel Simon-Lee Bending…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2018. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the ten most popular roundtable discussions published during 2018. CABG: Making Veins Great AgainDavid Taggart, Joseph Sabik, Michael Mack An Update on Coronary RevascularizationLeanne Harling, David Taggart, Philippe Kolh Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve…
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 10 highest scoring…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2018. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the ten most popular pieces of cardiac content published during 2018. Acute Type A Aortic Dissection RepairShruti Jayakumar, Rachel Simon-Lee, Jason Varzaly, James Edwards Minimally Invasive Ozaki Technique for Aortic Valve ReconstructionDinh Nguyen,…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2018. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the ten most popular pieces of thoracic content published during 2018. CTSNet Step-by-Step Series: Posterolateral ThoracotomyShruti Jayakumar, Pavlos Papoulidis, Marco Nardini, Leanne Harling, Joel Dunning, Ian Paul Open Window Thoracostomy in a Patient…
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2018. As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the ten most popular pieces of congenital content published during 2018. Minimally Invasive ASD Repair: Step-by-Step GuideTom C. Nguyen Minimally Invasive Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement in a Patient With Marfan SyndromeOleg Orlov,…
Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, John Puskas of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, New York, USA, moderates a discussion on hybrid coronary revascularization. Dr Puskas is joined by Michael Halkos of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and Robert Kiaii of the London Health…
Niv Ad of the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute in Morgantown, USA, argues for surgical ablation for mitral valve surgery patients with atrial fibrillation. He discusses what it means for a patient to be “in atrial fibrillation,” stresses that surgeons should be specifically trained in ablation techniques, and argues for cryoablation rather than ablation…
Introduction Esophageal diverticulum is a rare condition characterized by protrusion of the esophageal mucosa through an area of weakness in the surrounding muscular layers. Generally, esophageal diverticula can be categorized as pulsion or traction. The former constitutes a false diverticulum, as the mucosa is the only protruding layer (1). Traction diverticula, on the other hand,…
Dr Om P. Yadava of the National Heart Institute in New Delhi, India, and Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery discusses contemporary issues in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with Professor David Taggart of the University of Oxford in the UK at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Indian Association of…
History The patient was a 23-year-old woman, born with single ventricle physiology (pulmonary atresia, hypoplastic tricuspid valve and hypoplastic right ventricle). She presented to the authors’ hospital with end stage heart and liver failure due to failing Fontan circulation. Her medical and surgical history was complicated. She had a history of multiple gastrointestinal (GI) bleeds,…
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