Content from the Journal of the American Neurological Surgeons.
This is a video of a robotic left lower lobe sleeve lobectomy. A 4.0 V-lock suture is used to perform the anastomosis, which is a barbed suture with an eyelet at the end to reduce the requirement for knot tying. A subxiphoid port is used to remove the lobe. The patient went home two days…
A 64-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room with acute inferior wall infarction, which was confirmed by echocardiogram and ECG. The patient was immediately taken for primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of the right coronary artery (RCA). He was discharged but continued to have breathlessness and was readmitted in 2008. The patient was…
Mohamad Bashir of Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom, moderates a panel discussion on the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD). Dr. Bashir is joined by Christoph Nienaber of Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom, and Marco Di Eusanio of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. The panelists discuss the 17 years…
Gianni Angelini of Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, discusses early, intermediate, and late vein graft failure and surgical techniques to improve vein graft patency rates at all stages. This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland.…
An 18-year-old asymptomatic male patient was diagnosed with a retroesophageal cyst. The authors performed cyst drainage via a uniportal VATS approach.
In this video, the authors demonstrate a robot-assisted Nissen fundoplication with Collis wedge gastroplasty. Following mediastinal dissection and full reduction of the hiatal or giant paraesophageal hernia, the gastric fat pad is mobilized for accurate identification of the gastroesophageal junction. If 2-3 centimeters of tension-free subdiaphragmatic esophageal length cannot be obtained, a Collis wedge gastroplasty…
View an SCTS and Bupa patient resource explaining side-effects and complications that may arise after cardiac surgery. Click below to view the full patient guide. This patient resource is provided by SCTS and Bupa.
In a discussion filmed at the 2016 STS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Joel Dunning is joined by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Editor Alec Patterson of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, and Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Editor Richard Weisel of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada. The editors discuss the…
Philippe Dartevelle of Marie Lannelongue Hospital and Paris-Sud University, Paris, France, discusses an anterior approach to superior sulcus tumors. This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS.…
This video demonstrates a slide tracheoplasty for long segment tracheal stenosis. The patient was a five-month-old male, who had persistent biphasic stridor following an upper respiratory infection.
Cardiac hydatid cyst is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Humans are accidental hosts of cystic echinococcosis, and the liver and lungs are the most frequently involved organs. This video shows a unique case of an intramyocardial hydatid cyst of the left ventricle and a pulmonary hydatid cyst in a 38-year-old female patient. Surgical removal…
Gabriele Di Giammarco of University G D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy, discusses the importance of intraoperative graft verification in CABG procedures to improve patency outcomes. This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with…
This is the case of a young woman with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who developed left pleural and pericardial effusions after chemotherapy. The drained fluid was milky-white in appearance and tested negative for chylomicrons. The cytology was predominantly lymphocytic. This video shows a left VATS procedure for pseudo-chylopericardium and the insertion of an indwelling left pleural catheter…
The treatment of left ventricular aneurysm has been a matter of study for many years, and several techniques have been described. The endoventricular circular patch plasty repair was reported in 1984 by Vincent Dor (1, 2, and 3). The aim of this method is to rebuild the left ventricular geometry after myocardial infarction (akinetic/dyskinetic zone…
In the performance of a three-port VATS plication, the authors demonstrate the use of novel tools to perform horizontal mattress sutures running in an oblique fashion. At the end of the procedure, an Ethilon is passed around the 9th rib and linked to an overrunning suture to prevent late recurrence.
CardioStart International is a charitable organization that provides free cardiovascular care and develops heart surgery programs around the world. On May 2, 2015, a team was scheduled to help initiate a cardiac program at Kathmandu University in Nepal, but less than one week before the team was due to arrive, the country was devastated by…
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