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This video features a patient who needed a left internal mammary artery (LIMA) graft to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and a graft to the posterior descending artery (PDA). Due to the patient’s weight and height, 110kg and 5 feet 5 inches, selecting an appropriately sized valve was crucial. The aortic incision was continued…
This video describes how to perform a left ventricular outflow tract enlargement in a pig model. A Hemashield velour Dacron graft was fashioned after making an incision into the annulus. Dr. Gaudiani demonstrated how to open the annulus between the left and noncoronary cusps, then placed the patch into this space. The patch was clipped to the…
In this CTSNet series, Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang presents innovative, totally endoscopic cardiac procedures for a variety of conditions. Stay tuned for more series videos in the coming weeks. The authors present the case of a totally endoscopic repair of Barlow’s disease with complete annuloplasty. The case involved a 62-year-old male with Barlow’s disease, as shown on the…
At the 2024 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. At the 2024 EACTS Annual Meeting, Dr. Alice Copperwheat spoke with Jorge Mascaro, professor of surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, about Type B aortic dissection.…
In March 2025, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland held its annual meeting, bringing together professionals in the field of cardiothoracic surgery to discuss the latest advancements in technologies and techniques. Watch for more SCTS 2025 videos in the coming weeks. At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain…
Pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) is a frequent reintervention following initial surgical repair for various congenital cardiac pathologies. As a result of early surgical interventions for conditions such as tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), double outlet right ventricle (DORV), and ventricular septal defect with pulmonary atresia (VSD with PA), the rate of survival for these cases has…
Aortobronchial fistula is a rare complication of aortic surgery that has high mortality if left untreated. These fistulas are more common in the descending aorta; however, there are a few referrals in the literature following aortic valve replacement (AVR). In this case, the patient developed an aortobronchial fistula following minimally invasive AVR and reduction aortoplasty.…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Coronary artery aneurysms are observed in up to 5 percent of patients undergoing coronary angiography (1). While most coronary artery aneurysms remain asymptomatic and are discovered incidentally during coronary angiography or computed tomography, clinical symptoms may…
This interview features the winner of the 2024 CTSNet Resident Video Competition. Watch the winning video and all other competition entries. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Allen Razavi, cardiac surgery researcher and general surgery resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, about his winning video, “Minimally Invasive Bilateral Orthotopic Lung Transplant With Robotic Assistance.” They discussed…
In this CTSNet series, Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang presents innovative, totally endoscopic cardiac procedures for a variety of conditions. Stay tuned for more series videos in the coming weeks. The authors present a case of totally endoscopic redo inferior vena cava (IVC) patch enlargement. The patient was a 44-year-old male who, four years prior, had presented with a…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors discuss a minimally invasive Bentall procedure performed for an aortic aneurysm. A 54-year-old male presented to the outpatient department with a chief complaint of breathlessness persisting for four to five months.…
The patient was a 52-year-old man with a 5.2 cm aorta. A femoral vein cannula was placed, followed by an upper ministernotomy. Retrograde cardioplegia was administered while the aorta was opened after high aortic cannulation. A left ventricle (LV) vent was then placed, and the remainder of the proximal aorta was removed. The decision regarding whether to…
The patient was a 50-year-old man who had undergone a 27 mm Mosaic aortic valve replacement three years previously, who, unfortunately developed a streptococcus mitis infection. The valve was sterilized, but he was left with severe aortic regurgitation. The method described is intended to prevent any emboli from being displaced to the brain using retrograde cardioplegia…
In this CTSNet series, Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang presents innovative, totally endoscopic cardiac procedures for a variety of conditions. Stay tuned for more series videos in the coming weeks. The authors present a case of totally endoscopic repair for atrial functional mitral regurgitation, including left atrial ablation and left atrial appendage clip placement. The patient was a…
At the 2025 SCTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Leanne Ashrafian spoke with Drs. Yolonda Colson, chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Hermes C. Grillo Professor of Surgery in the Field of Thoracic Surgery at Harvard Medical School; Nuria M. Novoa, head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery…
In this new CTSNet President’s Series, Dr. Husam Balkhy, president of ISMICS, showcases cutting-edge, totally endoscopic cardiac procedures from the University of Chicago. Watch for more videos in this series coming soon. A fifty-two-year-old patient with triple vessel disease (TVD) involving the left anterior descending artery (LAD), diagonal branch (D), left circumflex artery (LCX) and right coronary…
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