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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,…
Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Shanda Blackmon of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, moderates a discussion on the role of women in cardiothoracic surgery. Dr Blackmon is joined by Miia Lehtinen of Kymenlaakso Central Hospital in Kotka, Finland, and Meghana Helder of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. They focus on the…
Torsten Doenst of the University Hospital Jena in Germany presents the argument for minimally invasive techniques over median sternotomy in the treatment of mitral valve disease. This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published…
A 4-year-old boy came to the emergency department with stridor. He had a 19-hour history of foreign body inhalation of a rosary bead. The authors performed a rigid bronchoscopy. They used a crocodile forceps with one jaw inside the hole of the bead and the other jaw grasping the outer surface. Then they extracted the…
This video demonstrates a proximal anastomosis, attaching a graft vessel to the aorta in a coronary artery bypass graft procedure. The authors break the anastomosis into five steps: preparation, creating the aortic hole, cutting the graft, parachuting the graft onto the aorta, and completing the anastomosis. Suggested Reading Doty DB, Doty JR. Cardiac Surgery: Operative…
Minimally invasive segmentectomy is becoming a popular operation for the diagnosis and treatment of small pulmonary nodules. It is very technically challenging and the anatomic variations are often unpredictable. The three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction integrated with endoscopic camera imaging, indocyanine green for intersegmental plane definition and nodule location, and radial endobronchial ultrasound and virtual bronchoscopy are…
Leanne Harling of Imperial College in London, UK, interviews John McKenna of Edinburgh, UK, about his experience in the device industry side of cardiothoracic surgery. They discuss the development of replacement heart valves and current challenges that face the development of technology, both generally and in the UK. Mr McKenna emphasizes the importance of collaboration…
