Content from the Journal of the American Neurological Surgeons.
This video is a part of CTSNet’s World’s Best Centers for Cardiothoracic Surgery: United States series. View every video in the World’s Best series and stay tuned for more. Watch Professor Faisal Bakeen demonstrate his method for LIMA artery and radial artery harvest at the Cleveland Clinic. Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org…
The patient is a twenty-three-month-old boy with total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and secundum atrial septal defect (ASD II) initially treated with a TAPVR correction with an anastomosis of the confluence to the LA, VSD closure, and fenestrated ASD II closure in the first month of life. The patient also…
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. Editor in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Bernard Park, a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,…
With the recent approval for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) across all risk profiles, reintervention is likely to become common practice. As surgeons treat younger, fitter patients with longer life expectancies, complications such as thrombosis, endocarditis, non-structural valve deterioration and, of course, structural valve deterioration will warrant reintervention, which may require a high-risk surgical procedure…
In this deep dive series of videos produced by Professor Tristan Yan from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, he demonstrates a technique of total arterial off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting without touching the ascending aorta to reduce stroke risk. This video demonstrates another grafting configuration that achieves complete revascularization without manipulating the…
The patient is a five-year-old girl weighing 21 kg with right isomerism, right-sided superior vena cava (SVC), and left-sided inferior vena cava (IVC). The patient’s pulmonary venous confluence drained to the left atrium. She had a dominant right ventricle and double outlet right ventricle. A right-sided bilateral cavopulmonary connection had been performed four years prior.…
Dr. Michael Edward Cowen has retired from Castle Hill Hospital, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust after more than 30 years as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon. Appointed in the early 1990s, Dr. Cowen began as a consultant at a very young age and has continued over the subsequent decades, retiring as one of the longest…
This video is a part of CTSNet’s World’s Best Centers for Cardiothoracic Surgery: United States series. View every video in the World’s Best series and stay tuned for more. Watch Professor Marc Gillinov, Department Chairman of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, discuss the talented cardiothoracic team at the center. Prod. Gillinov also talks…
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. CTSNet Global Editor Emily Farkas spoke with Professor Rawn Salenger, a cardiac surgeon at University of Maryland Saint…
Tetralogy of Fallot with an absent pulmonary valve is physiologically distinctive from other forms of TOF due to tracheobronchial compression resulting from massive dilatation of the main pulmonary artery and branches and abnormal branching of segmental arteries. Symptomatic newborns and infants have a poor prognosis because of severe central pulmonary artery dilatation and bronchial compression.…
CTSNet is pleased to present the webinar recording of “Contemporary Insights on Minimally Invasive Surgery,” featuring panelists Dr. Husam H. Balkhy (University of Chicago), Dr. Robert L. Smith (Baylor Scott & White), and Dr. Yuji Kawano (MedStar Washington Hospital Center). This webinar was hosted on April 10, 2024 by CTSNet in collaboration with Edwards Lifesciences.…
The Patient This patient is a thirty-four-year-old man with a previous history of heart surgery during childhood and used a pacemaker. He had a car accident in August 2022 with traumatic brain injury and a need for orotracheal intubation. He remained intubated for five days with conservative treatment for the neurological injury and was hospitalized…
Total arterial anaortic off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery is an elegant cardiac procedure. It is important not to rush through the OPCAB surgery. Instead, try to get into the rhythm! In this video series, Professor Yan has demonstrated some reproducible techniques that utilize all arterial grafts (“Total Arterial,” for best long-term performance) and avoid any…
This video presents the case of the third redo slide tracheoplasty and esophagoplasty following a button battery ingestion in a previously healthy fifteen-month-old child. The patient presented to the emergency department due to vomiting and a possible foreign body ingestion. A sibling had reported that the patient licked a battery and possibly had it in…
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor Olugbenga Okusanya, a thoracic surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University…
This video is a part of CTSNet’s World’s Best Centers for Cardiothoracic Surgery: United States series. View every video in the World’s Best series and stay tuned for more. Watch Dr. Nicholas G. Smedira, surgical director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Cleveland Clinic, discuss the key components of a successful septal myectomy and demonstrate…
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