Mitral Valve Repair in Barlow’s Disease
By V. Bautista-Hernandez, MD and V. Roques-Escolar Video:
Content from the Journal of the American Neurological Surgeons.
Minimally Invasive Beating Heart MVR in Severe Dilated Cardiomyopathy
By Saquib Masroor, MD, MHS Video:
Repair of TAPVC Cardiac Type
By A. Sampath Kumar, MD Video:
Thoracoscopic Mitral Valve Repair in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Case of Chordal Tethering
By Saqib Masroor, MD, MIIS and John Alexander, MD Video:
Letter to a Young General Thoracic Surgeon
Dear Matt, I’m not that old, you understand, but something put me in a reflective mood as I thought about you beginning your new practice. I have, in fact, toiled in the vineyards for twenty-some years and have experienced academic, private practice, and large clinic settings. So here goes. This is a great time to…
Subclavian Artery to Left Anterior Descending Artery By-Pass via Left Anterior Small Thoracotomy (“Last Procedure”)
By Domenico Calcaterra, MD, Marco Ricci, MD, Anthony L. Panos, MD, Luis Garcia, MD, Efran Buitrago, MD, and Tomas Antonio Salerno, MD Video:
Mentors Are Needed
By Benson R. Wilcox, MD and Ashok Venkataraman We are pleased to present to our readers an exchange of letters (in the modern format of emails) between a fourth-year medical student from Singapore and one of our most distinguished senior cardiothoracic surgeons. The letters bring up numerous important points. Perhaps the most important point is that…
Resection of Subaortic Membrane
By A. Sampath Kumar, MD Video: