Content from the Journal of the American Neurological Surgeons.
In this video, the author presents a Barclay’s type of carinal resection. The patient was a 54-year-old woman who had coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Chest x-ray and computed tomography (CT) scan showed air trapping in the left lung and a carinal mass. Bronchoscopy revealed a broad-based mass at the left tracheobronchial angle. The…
Filmed at the 2017 Aortic Live meeting in Essen, Germany, Mohamad Bashir of Barts Heart Centre in London, UK, moderates a discussion on treatments for aortic pathologies with Joseph Bavaria of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, Heinz Jakob of the University of Essen in Germany, Tilo Kolbel of the University of Hamburg in…
Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Leanne Harling of Imperial College in London, UK, moderates a discussion on minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Ms Harling is joined by Enoch Akowuah of James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, Patrick Perier of Herz und Gef in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany, and Peyman Sardari…
A 28-year-old lady presented with a 10-year history of a productive cough and some troublesome admissions with significant pneumonias. A very large pneumatocele was found, and bronchoscopy did not reveal a large airway connecting to it. The author performed a robotic marsupialization of the pneumatocele and was pleased to see no adhesions in the chest.…
The 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) was held recently in San Diego, California, where more than 2,600 professional attendees gathered to discuss a variety of topics in cardiothoracic surgery. This summary focuses on the scientific presentations and special lectures in the Plenary Sessions to give readers a taste of…
Om Prakesh Yadava, of the National Heart Institute in New Delhi, India, interviews Marc Ruel of the University of Ottawa in Canada. Drs Yadava and Ruel discuss minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS), its benefit in both the developing and developed world, and the MIST (minimally invasive versus sternotomy) trial. Dr Marc Ruel feels that cardiac…
In this brief clinical video, the authors demonstrate the use of the Endo360⁰ suturing device from EndoEvolution (Assut Europe, SpA, Rome, Italy) for plication of the left hemidiaphragm. The authors believe that this is the first documented use of the Endo360⁰ for plication of the diaphragm. The patient is a 66-year-old gentleman who underwent thyroidectomy…
Find it here: The 26th ESTS Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Don’t miss the 2018 Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons! Educational sessions from the meeting can also be found on CTSNet’s YouTube channel. View sessions from Sunday, May 27: Master Cup Postgraduate Symposium, Database and Quality Certification, Challenging Oncologic Cases in Thoracic Surgery: A…
Rune Haaverstad of Bergen University Hospital in Norway discusses transit-time flowmetry to confirm graft patency after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). He argues that flowmetry is a useful addition to the toolbox of intraoperative graft assessment, reviews the details of performing and interpeting transit-time flowmetry, and discusses what can be done if measurements show poor…
Objectives Esophagectomy is reserved for patients who present with failed treatment for achalasia or megaesophagus. As an alternative, the authors propose a minimally invasive technique to plicate, narrow, and straighten the esophagus. This technique is a peroral plication of the esophagus (POPE) procedure. Methods The authors describe the case of a 79-year-old woman with long-standing…
A 79-year-old female patient was admitted to the author’s clinic for the treatment of a solitary tumorous formation, which appeared to be a metachronous metastatic tumor of a colon carcinoma located in the anterior segment of the right upper lobe. Due to enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes, the patient underwent an endobronchial ultrasound prior to surgery.…
Objectives The reconstruction of mitral and tricuspid valves during multiple-valve operations reduces mortality risk compared to replacement. Recently, similar findings have been associated with aortic valve repair. To enhance quality and outcome, it might be reasonable to consider conversion to comprehensive aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve repair in selected patients. Video Summary A 77-year-old 60…
This video illustrates a procedure for a patient who was initially diagnosed with a duplication cyst on computed tomography scan but was found to have a posterior mediastinal tumor in the superior sulcus during a video-assisted thoracoscopic procedure. Paragangliomas are neuroendocrine tumors originating from chromaffin cells located in extra-adrenal sympathetic ganglia. They are also called…
Roberto Lorusso of the Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands discusses the Perceval valve and the PERSIST-AVR trial, which is currently underway. He focuses on the study design, while emphasizing the importance of randomized trial data for the field of cardiac surgery. This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at…
Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Jill Ley of the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California, USA, moderates a discussion on infection prevention and the management of surgical wounds. She is joined by Teresa Kieser of Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta in Calgary, Canada, Richard Van Valen of Erasmus…
Ademola Abiose of the North Ohio Heart Elyria Medical Center in Ohio presents an overview of standard echocardiography views and discusses echocardiographic evaluation of mitral and aortic valve disease.
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